Overview
- At the San Sebastián Film Festival on Friday, Werner Herzog and Orlando Bloom publicly discussed a central threesome scene from Bucking Fastard while presenting the film.
- Orlando Bloom said the scene was “a very sincere sort of moment” born of the characters' simplicity and the sisters' innocence.
- Herzog said he deliberately stepped back as director during the love scene and told Bloom he could not give instructions for how to handle being in bed with two women.
- Bucking Fastard, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 3, stars real-life sisters Rooney and Kate Mara playing sisters who speak in near-unison and love the same man.
- Herzog used the festival platform to renew sharp warnings about AI—criticizing Piotr Winiewicz’s About a Hero as “phenomenally, abysmally stupid”—and the film’s wider release timetable, including a U.S. date, remains unconfirmed.