All Charlotte Kirk Wants for Christmas Is a Hit

For once, nobody can accuse Charlotte Kirk of going off-script. There wasn’t one.

The British actress, 34, has been keeping busy with monster movies and gangster thrillers since she started making headlines in 2019, when her entanglements with Kevin Tsujihara and Ron Meyer helped topple both studio chiefs. Now she’s dabbling in a much more festive genre, starring in Christmas & Chaos, a holiday film directed by Jamie Adams, the British indie maverick known for shooting entirely improvised films.

“He’d write a few things in the morning — like, this is what we could do,” explains Kirk. “But we just went off on our own. We’d do a take that lasted 40 minutes. By the end, we had 30 hours of footage, enough for four movies.”

In the edit they ended up with, Kirk plays a washed-up pop star who gets paired with her polar opposite, a stubborn music purist (Welsh actor Ben McGregor), to write Christmas tunes. If that sounds like the setup for a meet-cute rom-com, don’t get your hopes up. “I actually do have a romance in the movie,” Kirk tells Rambling, “just with somebody else.”

The film was released Nov. 9 in the U.K., with U.S. distribution still in the works. But Kirk does report one promising development: “We got an airline deal,” she says. Which airline? “I don’t know,” she admits. “My sales agent just said we got an airline deal. I’m like, ‘OK, great.’ “

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This story appeared in the Nov. 12 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe.