Tarantino, Kylie Minogue and the New Indie Film Shot in Wales

Quentin Tarantino and Kylie Minogue have been spotted in Porthcawl, a Welsh seaside town, during the shoot of a new film directed by Jamie Adams, Tangled Up in Blue: the film does not yet have an announced plot, but so far we have Tarantino, Kylie, a church, a wake, a seaside pub and a local male choir.

The film is backed by Visor Entertainment, a New York-based production company, and also stars Jason Isaacs, Allison Williams, Sofia Boutella and RZA. Welsh actors including Karen Paullada, Julian Lewis Jones, Craig Russell and Siwan Morris are also part of the cast.

Shooting, cast and production: the details so far

The first images from the set came from local Welsh media.

Nation.Cymru published photographs of Tarantino and Minogue at the Saltwater Inn in Porthcawl, where the two were reportedly filmed laughing and singing together during a scene set at a wake. Shooting also involved Newton Church, used for a funeral scene, and members of the Porthcawl Male Choir were also involved on set, appearing as extras and helping with singing in the church and at the wake.

Tangled Up in Blue is written and directed by Jamie Adams, with production by Visor Entertainment and Sabine Stener, Randy Kleinman and Jordan Yale Levine as producers.

Minogue is therefore returning to acting after her appearance in the 2025 Netflix series The Residence and after the 2026 Netflix docuseries Kylie, dedicated to almost four decades of her music career. Tarantino’s involvement, meanwhile, comes as he is also preparing The Popinjay Cavalier, a stage comedy of deception and disguise set in 1830s Europe, written and directed by him for London’s West End and expected in early 2027.

The Connection with Only What We Carry

The new film confirms the collaboration between Tarantino and Jamie Adams after Only What We Carry, which premiered on June 6, 2026 at the Tribeca Festival. Produced by Charles Benoin, Liam Hellmann and Jouri Smit, with cinematography by Neema Sadeghi and editing by Cecile Lapergue, the film was shot in six days with a largely improvised script. The cast includes Sofia Boutella, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lizzy McAlpine, Quentin Tarantino, Simon Pegg and Liam Hellmann.

In Only What We Carry, Tarantino plays a wealthy benefactor in a drama set on the Normandy coast. Adams said he had sent him the story and a letter without expecting a reply. Two weeks later came the request for a Zoom meeting, and the collaboration began from there.

Jamie Adams described that first conversation with Quentin Tarantino as “a real Disneyland for filmmakers,” an expression that captures the effect produced by the unexpected arrival of a director of that stature in an independent project. For Tarantino, meanwhile, after years of anticipated, delayed or abandoned projects, these supporting roles seem to offer a different kind of freedom: fast productions, lighter sets and less pressure than the industrial machinery that accompanies every film he makes as writer-director.