Quentin Tarantino Snags First On-Screen Acting Role in 11 Years

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Quentin Tarantino has been directing movies for over ten years, but he’s now returning to acting with a new part.

Okay, so I’m hearing some really interesting news about Jamie Adams’ new drama, Only What We Carry. Apparently, Quentin Tarantino – yes, the Quentin Tarantino – is joining Sofia Boutella (Star Trek Beyond), Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead), and Charlotte Gainsbourg (Melancholia) in this one. The story, as best we can tell from IMDb, centers around Boutella’s character, a former student who returns to Europe and starts digging up old secrets within a close-knit community. Details about Tarantino’s role are scarce – he’s playing someone called John Percy – but it sounds like a smaller part. What’s even more intriguing? The entire thing was shot in just six days in Normandy, according to IndieWire, and production has just wrapped. No word yet on when we’ll actually get to see it, but color me intrigued!

Before landing this role, Quentin Tarantino did voice work in seven episodes of the show Super Pumped (2022), and had small parts in his own films Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019) and The Hateful Eight (2015). He also appeared on screen in a cameo for the late director Peter Bogdanovich’s 2014 film, She’s Funny That Way, which was his most recent on-screen appearance in over 11 years. Tarantino has frequently taken small acting roles in his own movies too, including Django Unchained, Death Proof, and From Dusk Till Dawn.

This new acting role marks his return to filmmaking after pausing work on The Movie Critic a year and a half ago. Originally planned as his tenth and last film, Tarantino had described the project as being based on the life of an obscure, but real, California film critic and journalist from the 1970s, according to Deadline.

He primarily reviewed popular films and wasn’t the main critic, but I always thought he was excellent. He was incredibly cynical in his writing. You could compare his reviews to the early, edgy style of Howard Stern, or imagine what Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver would write if he were a film critic.

Quentin Tarantino Reveals the One Film He Was ‘Born to Make’


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Quentin Tarantino is a celebrated director and writer known for his unique storytelling, often featuring stylized violence and mature themes. He won an Academy Award for the screenplay of Pulp Fiction in 1994, sharing the prize with Roger Avary, and then won again nearly two decades later for Django Unchained. Over his career, he’s directed nine films and received over 170 awards.

I was listening to Tarantino on The Church of Tarantino podcast the other day, and he was talking about his own films. He said Inglourious Basterds was probably his strongest script, with The Hateful Eight and Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood not far behind. But when asked which movie really felt like a pure Tarantino experience, he didn’t hesitate – he had one clear favorite.

I believe Kill Bill is the most definitive film of my career – something only I could have brought to life. It’s deeply personal, drawing from my imagination, emotions, and everything I’m passionate about. I truly feel like I was meant to make that movie. While the script is strong, it was the actual filming process that really made it special.

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2025-10-28 21:35