Sidelined: The QB and Me star Siena Agudong calls Van Der Beek a “lovely human,” whereas Drew Ray Tanner compares working with the beloved actor to others in James’ “class” throughout his time on Riverdale.
Noah Beck is the newest TikTok star to dip his toes into performing, with the web character making his performing debut in Tubi’s new romantic drama, Sidelined: The QB and Me — and his forged mates are singing his praises.
In an interview with TooFab, Beck’s costars Siena Agudong, Drew Ray Tanner, and Deborah Cox opened up about working with Beck on his first movie.
In keeping with Tubi, Sidelined: The QB and Me — which is an adaptation of the Wattpad story-turned-YA novel The QB Unhealthy Boy and Me by Tay Marley — follows Dallas (Agudong), a dancer and Drayton (Beck), the star highschool quarterback, who unexpectedly fall in love, making their post-grad plans unsure.
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Tanner — who stars as Nathan Bryan, Dallas’ older brother and highschool soccer coach — mentioned that he had “no concept what to anticipate” from Beck, however in the end had nothing however good issues to say about his costar.
“He’s the nicest man, actually revered the craft, got here at it very humbly, had no airs about him, had no ego about him,” Tanner, 32, advised TooFab. “I feel it was a kind of issues the place at first it was like, ‘Yeah, you want something?’ However he did actually nice and I do not suppose he wanted my assist in any respect. He was unbelievable.”
Agudong echoed her on-screen brother.
“I second that. I feel respect was an amazing phrase to make use of. He did respect it and he revered individuals on set,” she mentioned. “He additionally simply wished to develop, and he saved saying that from the start and would textual content me beforehand and ask for ideas. And I used to be hesitant to offer them as a result of I wished to see what he needed to carry first, and I did not wanna affect him in any manner beginning out. After which, he simply took it and ran and simply wished to soak all of it in, and that is what he did. Yeah. He is a pure.”
“Anytime someone asks me for recommendation or one thing, I am like, ‘Ask me in 50 years after I know extra,’” Tanner jokingly added. “As a result of perhaps I do not know what I am doing.”
In the meantime, Cox — who performs Dallas’ dance trainer — shared comparable ideas about Beck’s performing debut whereas talking with TooFab.
“He was nice. He actually was nice,” she mentioned. “[Agudong and Beck] have been … I fed off of their chemistry, their pure chemistry and magic that they delivered to the display. And it was nice. [Director Justin Wu] knew these moments to drag from that have been simply naturally there.”
Sidelined: The QB and Me additionally stars James Van Der Beek, who performs the football-obsessed father of Beck’s character Drayton.
Agudong and Tanner recalled their expertise sharing the display with the beloved actor.
“James is such a wonderful, lovely human. Strolling on set, even simply the primary day you may, I imply, everybody revered him,” Agudong mentioned. “He simply introduced such nice vitality to set. We have been laughing our heads off, after which the minute it changed into the scene … actually, generally it was laborious to take your self out of it watching him. He is simply so fascinating, however a beautiful human being.”
Tanner known as Van Der Beek “fantastic,” earlier than reflecting on attending to work with different former teen stars from the ’90s, reminiscent of Skeet Ulrich and the late Luke Perry, throughout his time on Riverdale.
“I have been so lucky too with Riverdale, we set to work with individuals, a part of his class, like Luke Perry and Skeet Ulrich,” he shared. “One factor I observed — similar factor with James, that he has as effectively — is that while you meet them, they’re very, like, all the pieces’s simple. Every part’s nice … [but] as quickly because it’s like motion, they drop in, they arrive ready, they’re professionals.”
“They’ve long-lasting careers for a motive,” he added. “It is one thing that everybody ought to be aware of. And, yeah it was fairly inspiring.”
Cox — who didn’t share any scenes with Van Der Beek — revealed to TooFab that she met the Varsity Blues star for the primary time on the Sidelined premiere earlier this month, which marked Van Der Beek’s first public look since asserting his most cancers prognosis.
“I really like his work,” she mentioned, earlier than recalling seeing Van Der Beek on display within the movie. “It was so fantastic. Seeing the chemistry with him and Noah, and [playing] this stern father. … I really like that you may inform that their relationship was so complicated. It was actually thrilling to observe and to see all of those characters come to life.”
“We obtained an opportunity to fulfill one another for the primary time and join and inform one another how we felt about one another’s work and stuff,” she added of assembly Van Der Beek. “It was actually, actually, actually a very good time.”
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Sidelined: The QB and Me will likely be out there to stream on Tubi on November 29.
