Quentin Tarantino and Kylie Minogue spent the weekend filming scenes for a new movie in Porthcawl, a small seaside town on the Welsh coast, drawing bewildered crowds and a flurry of phone-camera photos from locals who could barely believe what they were seeing.
The project, titled Tangled Up in Blue, is directed by Jamie Adams, the Welsh filmmaker known for his French New Wave-influenced, heavily improvised productions. Tarantino appears in front of the camera as a wealthy benefactor — his second acting collaboration with Adams after last year’s Only What We Carry, which also starred Simon Pegg and Charlotte Gainsbourg and screened at Tribeca. Minogue, who has personal ties to the region through relatives in nearby Maesteg, plays an as-yet-undisclosed role. The two were photographed laughing and singing together between takes at the Saltwater Inn, where a wake scene was filmed, with additional footage shot at Newton Church for a funeral sequence. Members of the Porthcawl Male Choir were recruited as extras.
The cast also includes Jason Isaacs, Allison Williams, Sofia Boutella, and RZA, alongside Welsh actors Siwan Morris, Julian Lewis Jones, Karen Paullada, and Craig Russell. New York-based Visor Entertainment, which connected with Adams at Tribeca, is producing through Sabine Stener, Randy Kleinman, and Jordan Yale Levine.
Adams pursued Tarantino by writing to him directly, bypassing conventional casting channels. “I was just very honest about believing in him as an actor,” the director told Variety. “Improvisation, the way I use it, is about being present and reacting organically. He’s one of the greatest conversational storytellers.” Tarantino responded two weeks later through his agent, and a Zoom call followed that ranged across cinema, Welsh sitcoms, and their respective life stories. Adams said that when Tarantino tried to raise character questions, he shut it down: “I said, ‘No, this isn’t the moment for that.'”
For Minogue, Tangled Up in Blue extends a recent return to screen work that included a guest role in Netflix’s The Residence in 2025 and a personal docuseries, Kylie, released earlier this year. Tarantino, meanwhile, is also developing Bounty Law, a Western miniseries built around the fictional television show from Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood.
