EXCLUSIVE: Star Trek co-stars Simon Pegg (Mission Impossible franchise) and Sofia Boutella (The Mummy) are starring with Charlotte Gainsbourg (Melancholia) and Quentin Tarantino in feature Only What We Carry, marking Tarantino’s biggest on screen role since Robert Rodriguez classic From Dusk Til Dawn (1996).
The drama, which has quietly wrapped in Deauville, France, is the latest from Welsh writer-director Jamie Adams, whose credits include She Is Love and Wild Honey Pie! Also starring are French actor Liam Hellmann (Ibiza) and U.S. singer Lizzy McAlpine in her feature debut.
Set against the windswept coast of Normandy, Only What We Carry is described as “a meditation on love, loss, and the quiet courage it takes to move forward”. Producers are Charles Benoin, Liam Hellmann, and Jouri Smit.
Pegg plays Julian Johns, “a once-formidable instructor whose former student Charlotte Levant (Boutella) returns home to face the ghosts of her past. Joining them are John Percy (Tarantino), Julian’s old friend whose sudden arrival stirs long-buried truths; Josephine Chabrol (Gainsbourg), Charlotte’s protective sister; Vincent (Hellmann), a restless artist caught between love and loyalty, and Jacqueline (McAlpine), a young aspiring dancer whose presence forces everyone to confront the weight of what they’ve left behind.”
Director Jamie Adams, who specialises in an improvisational style, said: “It’s always been a dream of mine to shoot an Eric Rohmer styled picture in Normandy, a dream that included collaborating with an exceptional international ensemble cast and crew. It turns out that by embracing the freedoms of independent cinema, that dream has come true. I’m forever grateful to the cast and crew of Only What We Carry for this moment.”
Tarantino has cameod in most of his own movies, including Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019). He has also had small roles in other films and series and narrated 2022 series Super Pumped. The Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained filmmaker had lined up The Movie Critic as his tenth and final film but pulled the plug on that one and is said to be weighing up next directing effort.
Pegg is represented by Simon Hargreaves; Boutella is represented by CAA, Untitled & 42; Tarantino is represented by WME and Carlos Goodman; Gainsbourg is represented by CAA, Untitled & 42; Hellmann is represented by Florence Chamasson; McAlpine is represented by Molly Clark; Adams is represented by Cynthia Okoye at Curtis Brown and Mark Hartogsohn at Gersh Agency.
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