Noah Beck is going from TikTok to the movies with his new role in the Tubi original film, Sidelined: The QB and Me.

The actor leads the new film with Siena Agudong and Riverdale alum Drew Ray Tanner, James Van Der Beek and music’s very own Deborah Cox.

“I just had so much fun shooting the thing, and I hope that shows more than anything on screen,” Beck said in a recent cast interview with Blavity’s Shadow and Act. “I think these guys [Siena and Drew] make it super easy. But it was just a great time and I hope that it shows. I think as someone who was known from social media going into a new thing, you just kind of have to do it, because [otherwise] you get in your head [and] you overthink. Going from one thing to another, it’s like, ‘Who am I to do that?’ But it’s life. You just kind [of like], ‘Who am I to box myself into one thing? Why not?’ This opportunity presented itself and I just wanted to fully submerge into it, and I had the best time. And more than anything, I hope that shows on screen.”

Beck also says that growing up with rom-coms like this film made him the perfect audience for this film.

“There’s an audience for these films and I’m in that audience,” he said. “I love these films so much, and I think growing up with sisters constantly watching rom-coms, it’s even just surreal to even be in one now. If you’re into charming movies that are easy to watch, and if you want to be as surprised by the heart and the depth and the layers of this film, I’d say, watch Sidelined.”

What is ‘Sidelined: The QB and Me’ about?

The film is a Wattpad WEBTOON Studios production and is based on Tay Marley’s Wattpad YA work, The QB Bad Boy and Me. Justin Wu directed the project, which follows “Dallas (Agudong), a burdened but headstrong dancer, is determined to get into the best dance school in the country—her late mother’s alma mater. But that dream is suddenly derailed when the cheeky yet secretly grieving high-school heartthrob, Drayton (Beck), crashes into her life with a unique story of his own.”

Who does Drew Ray Tanner play in ‘Sidelined: The QB and Me’?

Tanner, who also starred in another recent Wattpad WEBTOON Studios film, Boot Camp, plays Nathan, Dallas’ older brother and her now-guardian after the deaths of their parents. He is also the school’s football coach, which is something different for Tanner, usually playing the high school jock-type in YA projects.

“What’s funny [is that] as a student, you act like you know everything, but you’re learning…as the coach, you act like you know everything, but you really don’t,” Tanner told us of his role. “You’re kind of making it up as you go. I think that was the flip for me. There’s this confidence that you have in high school [and] when you’re a teenager. [It’s] this sort of blind confidence, and that blind confidence translates to parenthood. But the truth of the matter is [that] you don’t really know what you’re doing. You’re kind of making it up as you go. I think I just had to tap into those vulnerable moments on screen…just trying to portray the moments that we have as family. And even in the office with Drayton, it’s like, ‘Hey, it’s OK not to know all the answers to these things.’ I think that just takes time to learn”

What Deborah Cox says about ‘Sidelined: The QB and Me’?

Cox, coming off of projects like BET+’s First Wives Club and Max’s Station Eleven, was excited to make this her latest acting project. She plays Dallas’ dance teacher, Miss Alicia.

On working with Agudong and Beck, she said, “It was a lot of fun. I was just so smitten with both of them. I loved the chemistry between Noah and Siena, and they’re so charismatic on film. They really just brought these characters to life. I found myself rooting for them while I was watching the screening last night, and I just couldn’t believe that it was shot in less than 20 days and that all of this came together. And the vision, the way it was shot…just so beautifully done. And shout out to Justin Wu, who really set the tone for everybody on the film.”

Sidelined: The QB and Me is now streaming on Tubi. Check out the full cast interview, also featuring Agudong, above.

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