TikTok Star Noah Beck on His Acting Debut in ‘Sidelined: The QB and Me’ and Facing Online Haters: ‘People Can Be Cruel and Nasty for No Reason’

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Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events TikTok star Noah Beck is ready for his close-up. The 23-year-old former soccer player makes his acting debut in director Justin Wu’s “Sidelined: The QB and Me.” He stars in the Tubi teen romance as high school quarterback heartthrob Drayton opposite Siena Agudong (TV’s “Resident Evil”) as his dancer love interest Dallas.

The film is based on the Wattpad YA novel “The QB Bad Boy and Me” by Tay Marley. “For the longest time, when the idea of acting floated in my head, I was like, ‘I want to do this.’ And I liked the idea of starting from scratch, not really knowing much about the space,” Beck tells me. “I was constantly seeking something more and wanting to do something creatively that felt bigger than me and collaborative.

And I think acting and the industry and movies, it does just that.” Beck’s social media stardom took off about four years ago.

He now has 32.9 million followers (with 2.5 billion likes) and 8 million followers on Instagram. I first met Beck about a year ago at the GQ Men of the Year party in Los Angeles. “I think my next big goal is to go from a small screen to a big screen,” he said at the time.