Quentin Tarantino Returns to Acting in Only What We Carry

Quentin Tarantino has returned to acting in the drama Only What We Carry, which has released its first official look. The project, written and directed by Jamie Adams, stars Simon Pegg and Sofia Boutella. The last time Tarantino took a major part was 30 years ago as Richie Gecko in Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk till Dawn; since then he has made only occasional small appearances and voice cameos.

Set on the coast of Deauville in Normandy, the film follows Pegg's Julian Johns, a once-formidable Moulin Rouge artistic director whose isolated life is upended when former dancer Charlotte Levant (Boutella) seeks him out after reading a news article revealing his whereabouts.

Her arrival forces both to confront unresolved grief, buried truths and the emotional cost of the lives they've left behind. Tarantino plays John Percy, Julian's publisher, who lives at the chateau while the memoir is being written; Charlotte Gainsbourg appears as Charlotte's 'fiercely protective' sister.

France, Deauville, Normandy

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