Woodman Rebecca Casting !!top!! Jun 2026

For this post-apocalyptic drama set in the salt flats of Utah, Woodman famously eschewed professional actors for the supporting roles. Instead, she spent three weeks in desert communes, casting real survivalists, ceramists, and solar panel engineers. The result was a film where the background actors looked as weathered and authentic as the landscape itself. Critics called the casting "eerie in its realism."

: She frequently references the wrestling term "mark"—an enthusiast who treats scripted narratives as reality—and the dance concept of "marking," where performers execute movements with reduced intensity to focus on timing and space. woodman rebecca casting