Sidelined: The QB and Me star Siena Agudong calls Van Der Beek a “beautiful human,” whereas Drew Ray Tanner compares working with the beloved actor to others in James’ “class” all through his time on Riverdale.
Noah Beck is the latest TikTok star to dip his toes into performing, with the net character making his performing debut in Tubi’s new romantic drama, Sidelined: The QB and Me — and his solid 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 film.
In line 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 uncertain.
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Tanner — who stars as Nathan Bryan, Dallas’ older brother and highschool soccer coach — talked about that he had “no idea what to anticipate” from Beck, nonetheless in the long run had nothing nonetheless good points to say about his costar.
“He’s the nicest man, really revered the craft, bought right here at it very humbly, had no airs about him, had no ego about him,” Tanner, 32, suggested TooFab. “I really feel it was a sort of points the place at first it was like, ‘Yeah, you need one thing?’ Nonetheless he did really good and I don’t suppose he wished my help the least bit. He was unbelievable.”
Agudong echoed her on-screen brother.
“I second that. I really feel respect was a tremendous phrase to utilize. He did respect it and he revered people on set,” she talked about. “He moreover merely wished to develop, and he saved saying that from the beginning and would textual content material me beforehand and ask for concepts. And I was hesitant to supply them because of I needed to see what he wanted to hold first, and I didn’t wanna have an effect on him in any method starting out. After which, he merely took it and ran and easily wished to soak all of it in, and that’s what he did. Yeah. He’s a pure.”
“Anytime somebody asks me for advice or one factor, I’m like, ‘Ask me in 50 years after I do know further,’” Tanner jokingly added. “Because of maybe I have no idea what I’m doing.”
Within the meantime, Cox — who performs Dallas’ dance coach — shared comparable concepts about Beck’s performing debut whereas speaking with TooFab.
“He was good. He really was good,” she talked about. “[Agudong and Beck] have been … I fed off of their chemistry, their pure chemistry and magic that they delivered to the show. And it was good. [Director Justin Wu] knew these moments to pull from which were merely naturally there.”
Sidelined: The QB and Me moreover stars James Van Der Beek, who performs the football-obsessed father of Beck’s character Drayton.
Agudong and Tanner recalled their experience sharing the show with the beloved actor.
“James is such an exquisite, beautiful human. Strolling on set, even merely the first day you might, I indicate, all people revered him,” Agudong talked about. “He merely launched such good vitality to set. Now we have been laughing our heads off, after which the minute it turned into the scene … really, typically it was laborious to take your self out of it watching him. He’s just so fascinating, nonetheless a lovely human being.”
Tanner often known as Van Der Beek “unbelievable,” sooner than reflecting on attending to work with completely different former teen stars from the ’90s, harking back to Skeet Ulrich and the late Luke Perry, all through his time on Riverdale.
“I’ve been so fortunate too with Riverdale, we set to work with people, part of his class, like Luke Perry and Skeet Ulrich,” he shared. “One issue I noticed — related issue with James, that he has as successfully — is that when you meet them, they’re very, like, all of the items’s easy. Each half’s good … [but] as shortly as a result of it’s like movement, they drop in, they arrive prepared, they’re professionals.”
“They’ve long-lasting careers for a motive,” he added. “It’s one factor that everyone ought to concentrate on. And, yeah it was pretty inspiring.”
Cox — who didn’t share any scenes with Van Der Beek — revealed to TooFab that she met the Varsity Blues star for the first time on the Sidelined premiere earlier this month, which marked Van Der Beek’s first public look since asserting his most cancers prognosis.
“I actually like his work,” she talked about, sooner than recalling seeing Van Der Beek on show inside the film. “It was so unbelievable. Seeing the chemistry with him and Noah, and [playing] this stern father. … I actually like that you could be inform that their relationship was so difficult. It was really thrilling to look at and to see all of these characters come to life.”
“We obtained a possibility to meet each other for the first time and be a part of and inform each other how we felt about each other’s work and stuff,” she added of meeting Van Der Beek. “It was really, really, really an excellent time.”
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Sidelined: The QB and Me will possible be on the market to stream on Tubi on November 29.
