{"id":730756,"date":"2026-08-07T20:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730756\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:10:09","slug":"self-esteem-to-star-in-upcoming-film-mountain-set-in-1980s-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730756\/","title":{"rendered":"Self Esteem to star in upcoming film Mountain set in 1980s Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Singer Self Esteem has landed her first major movie role, starring in a film set in 1980s Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The coming of age story, Mountain, directed by Celyn Jones, was filmed in his home town of Holyhead, on Anglesey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Peter Mullan, Iwan Rheon and Seth Isaac Thomas will star alongside Rebecca Lucy Taylor, who goes by the stage name Self Esteem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The film tells the story of a neglected young boy in 1980s Wales, looking for friendship and community when he meets a man living alone on a mountain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jones said filming the project, which wrapped earlier this year, had been &#8220;an emotional and spiritual homecoming&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer Self Esteem has landed her first major movie role, starring in a film set in 1980s Wales.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-730756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}