{"id":156125,"date":"2025-11-27T18:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/156125\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T18:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:54:15","slug":"sidelined-2-star-noah-beck-takes-aim-at-his-next-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/156125\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Sidelined 2’ Star Noah Beck Takes Aim at His Next Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t[This story contains spoilers for Tubi<\/a>\u2018s Sidelined 2: Intercepted.]<\/p>\n

\n\tNoah Beck<\/a> has conquered social media, so he\u2019s ready for a new challenge.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 24-year-old collegiate athlete-turned-content creator-turned-actor has already amassed a massive fanbase, with more than 40 million followers across TikTok and Instagram. After dropping out of college to pursue a social media career in 2020, Beck went on to capture the hearts of millions with his viral lip-syncing and shirtless dancing videos, in addition to his collabs with other members of the Sway House, the former L.A.-based content frat that once dominated TikTok.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Beck has expanded his presence beyond those viral videos, going on to dabble in the fashion world, he now has his full attention turned to acting. He made his film debut in Tubi\u2019s Sidelined: The QB and Me last year and just reprised his role as Drayton in the newly released sequel, Sidelined 2: Intercepted, opposite Siena Agudong. But he knows there\u2019s so much more to learn and is ready for anything thrown his way.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAt this point in my career where, unlike with social media, I\u2019ve truly loved how humbling this industry is. And if this industry will continue to have me, I will happily be there,\u201d he tells The Hollywood Reporter. \u201cI want to try different things and I want to do just about every genre. I\u2019ll never rule something out before doing it. That\u2019s just shooting yourself in the foot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow, Beck opens up about Sidelined 2, what it was like working with James Van Der Beek again and teases the possibility of more movies in the franchise. He also shares how his view of social media has changed and the biggest challenge he\u2019s been able to overcome.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith fans loving the first Sidelined movie, how excited were you to be able to return to the role of Drayton for the sequel?<\/p>\n

\n\tThis movie is my baby. I\u2019ve been attached to it since the very beginning. I\u2019ve kind of been a part of the adaptation process of taking it from Tam Marley\u2019s book to what it is now. And so people resonated with it and people responded, and that\u2019s all you can ask from going away for several months and creating something and just crossing your fingers, being like, we had the best time and we hope that we were able to at least capture a little bit of that on camera because the movie doing well or not, honestly, it\u2019s at a point where it doesn\u2019t even matter. I had so much fun filming these movies and it\u2019s just a little bonus if they do well. And the first one did better than any of us thought it was going to do, so that\u2019s obviously a blessing.<\/p>\n

\n\tSports were also such a large part of your life growing up, so what was it like to mix your love of sports and acting for these films?<\/p>\n

\n\tLet\u2019s just say Drayton and this story were not too far from my experience, so it was very easy to pull from things that I needed to pull from in some scenes. And those days filming the football shot, it was just play. And it was purely that camaraderie of being with a team and the extras of the football team coming in. It was hard to rally us. We were just on the field throwing the ball around, we were just having fun, and they were like, \u201cYo, we got to come film this.\u201d And I was like, \u201cOne more throw.\u201d And so it was really fun and it was truly my two worlds colliding, where you take sports and my newfound love, which is acting in movies and film and all the good things and just creating, to be honest.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tNoah Beck and Siena Agudong in \u2018Sidelined 2: Intercepted.\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTubi<\/p>\n

\n\tSince you all were already comfortable as scene partners, having done Sidelined: The QB and Me, were you looking forward to reuniting with Siena for the sequel?<\/p>\n

\n\tShe\u2019s truly one of my best friends. I have so much love for that girl, and more than anything, I was just excited to spend some more time with her. It\u2019s funny because when we film these movies, like promoting it, we were just in Rome together and it doesn\u2019t feel like work at all. Anytime I\u2019m around her, even when we\u2019re away filming a movie, it\u2019s just one long hangout and one long sleepover, and it\u2019s summer camp with your best friends. That alone is a selling point for me to continue acting in this franchise that it now is. And I think when you enjoy the work so much, I hope it shows through the screen because she\u2019s just so easy to have chemistry with, and I am very lucky.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou also worked with the iconic James Van Der Beek again on the sequel, and I know he\u2019s been battling cancer<\/a>, so how special was it to reunite with him?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tI could sit and talk about how amazing James was to me for an hour if you have it. With James, he has such a presence to him, and you can\u2019t not be present in a scene with him. I learned so much, and I\u2019ve just felt like I had this front row seat to such an acting masterclass. In our scenes, he\u2019s Drayton\u2019s father, so when he\u2019s yelling or when he\u2019s being stern with me, I\u2019m just sitting there and I caught myself a few times just really being in awe of him, and I was like, oh shit, I forgot it\u2019s a wide [shot] so I have to be in this. So there were times when I fell out of it and just wanted to enjoy what I\u2019m seeing, what people literally pay to come see and I\u2019m getting paid to do this with him. It\u2019s pretty surreal. And off camera, he was such a gentleman and just such an amazing guy to have on set. He\u2019s such a mentor to me.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tNoah Beck and James Van Der Beek in Sidelined 2: Intercepted.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTubi<\/p>\n

\n\tThinking about the ending to Sidelined 2: Intercepted, it concluded in quite an ambiguous way. So have there been talks about a third film in the franchise, and if so, would you be open to returning as Drayton?<\/p>\n

\n\tWe were kind of going for that bittersweet ending, and when we shot the thing, we shot three or four different endings and were like, \u201cI guess we\u2019ll see in the edit which one works the best and which one we decide.\u201d It came together so quickly, and there\u2019s no second book, so we were like, this can go wherever we want it. And they have so much love for each other, and it\u2019s kind of that saying of if you love something, let it go and if it comes back to you, [it\u2019s really yours]. But I\u2019m stoked to see where it goes, and let\u2019s just say I would love to continue these movies and there definitely are some unanswered questions. So if we decide to continue this story, I would happily come back as Drayton.<\/p>\n

\n\tLooking ahead, do you have any dream genres or roles you would love to take on in the future?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAt this point in my career where, unlike with social media, I\u2019ve truly loved how humbling this industry is. And if this industry will continue to have me, I will happily be there. I\u2019m not too picky right now, and just like how I started with TikTok, I want to try different things, and I want to do just about every genre. I\u2019ll never rule something out before doing it. That\u2019s just shooting yourself in the foot.<\/p>\n

\n\tHaving got your start on TikTok five years ago, so much has changed during this time with social media. How has your view of social media changed from then to now?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMy view of it has never been too serious. And I think maybe that\u2019s the only way that it\u2019s really changed. But at the same time, as much as I feel like I\u2019ve used social media to be this catapult for other things in my life that I\u2019ve had an interest in \u2026 I guess I\u2019ve treated my brand as my r\u00e9sum\u00e9. But then the seriousness quickly gets flooded out by the unseriousness of the silly videos or whatnot. I treat each platform fairly different. I think each one serves its purpose but ultimately not taking life that serious.<\/p>\n

\n\tSocial media has definitely changed in a way where it really was this series of boredom activities that I\u2019m just going to put on camera to just past the time. And to an extent, it still is that with the occasional brand deal. I think social media now is \u2014 whereas it was super entertainment-based when I was first starting out \u2014 a search engine. You can be educated on it, you can be entertained, it can be escapism or it can be informational. It is truly whatever you please and whatever your algorithm is feeding you. So, for me, I still view it as if you want to do anything, if you want to promote anything, if you want to break into a space and you don\u2019t have social media, I think you\u2019re really doing yourself a disservice if you\u2019re not capitalizing on it.<\/p>\n

\n\tDo you see yourself continuing to do social media in the future as you focus more on acting?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tA hundred percent. To each their own, and it\u2019s not one size fits all, so I wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s pretentious of me to just all of a sudden drop it and be like, \u201cI don\u2019t need this.\u201d It\u2019s never that. In the past year, I have pumped the brakes on certain platforms, but then I\u2019ll also hit these spurts where I\u2019ll go on vacation or I\u2019ll travel for work and get some amazing content, and I\u2019m pumping out an Instagram Reel or an Instagram dump a day, and then I\u2019m also throwing up two to three TikToks, because I\u2019m just so inspired. So I like to not put any pressure on any of it. If there\u2019s a day where I\u2019m like, I\u2019m not inspired by anything, I don\u2019t have any drafts, I am not forcing myself to do it. And that might allow me to have the bandwidth to do something else creatively. But yeah, I think I will continue; it wouldn\u2019t be fair to the people who have been following me through this whole journey.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tNoah Beck<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Noah Beck<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat\u2019s one of the biggest challenges you\u2019ve been able to overcome to get you where you are today?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tI think acting\u2019s really helped me with not caring too much about what people think. And in a world with social media, it\u2019s quite literally all it is in a sense. You\u2019re putting stuff out there, it\u2019s very vulnerable. And especially if you\u2019re not playing a character online and you\u2019re not playing a different persona and you\u2019re truly being yourself, you\u2019re like, \u201cHey, this is me in a video. This is the potential to hit millions of people. Am I okay with how this might be perceived?\u201d So I think just being authentically yourself and just being like, \u201cThis is me, take it or leave it,\u201d has really helped with the acting and kind of getting out of my own skin a little and just being like, \u201cNo one cares that much.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIf you had to describe what makes Noah Beck Noah Beck, what would you say?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tUltimately, I am just curious, and the day that I\u2019m not curious is the day that I need someone to slap me upside the head and be like, stay curious. Because life\u2019s more fun that way, and you start to romanticize things. You start to just constantly be a student and ask questions. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever get to a point where I think I know everything. I hope I don\u2019t. I don\u2019t want to be that cursed with knowledge. But yeah, I think curiosity. Without that, I wouldn\u2019t be myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[This story contains spoilers for Tubi\u2018s Sidelined 2: Intercepted.] Noah Beck has conquered social media, so he\u2019s ready…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29953,146,85,46,94370,71245,35788],"class_list":["post-156125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-content-creators","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-noah-beck","tag-person-of-interest","tag-tubi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}