Werner Herzog's wife, Lena, told Anderson Cooper that her husband's villainous characters in "The Mandalorian" and "Jack Reacher" are almost a "caricature" of the filmmaker.

Once, at the height of COVID, I dropped off a book at the home of Werner Herzog. I was an editor at the time and was trying to assign him a review, so I drove up to his gate in Laurel Canyon, and ...