Noah Beck Reacts to Heartthrob Label — and What He Actually Thinks About Title (Unique)

Noah Beck is discovering a brand new rhythm.

The content material creator, who was among the many preliminary wave of influencers who went viral on TikTok in 2020 and have become an prompt star upon racking up 20,000 followers in a single day (and practically 33M thus far), is taking his skills to a much bigger display.

Now, Beck, 23, is making his film debut in Sidelined: The QB and Me, a Tubi authentic movie that premiered on Nov. 30. In an unique interview with PEOPLE forward of its launch, the social media star spoke about his position as Drayton Lahey and the heartthrob title he is been deemed.

“I got here into it with this very learnable method of ranging from floor zero — and I favored that,” Beck tells PEOPLE solely of appearing, having had zero skilled expertise previous to taking lessons to organize. “I completely type of simply threw myself into it… and all of us shot the factor and we had the blast.”

Beck’s character Drayton is the star quarterback of his highschool soccer staff who doubles as each a foul boy and a heartthrob who falls in love with Dallas Bryan, a candy cheerleader performed by Siena Agudong. The actor tells PEOPLE he pulled “bits and items” of himself for the position.

“Some issues are simpler to drag,” Beck says of the character traits he aligned with, together with Drayton’s “family-oriented” nature seen within the movie. “I feel Noah has a tremendous household, and in order that was simple to type of pull that love of that household dynamic if you’ll,” he explains.

Rising up in a soccer household locations lots of stress on Drayton, one other character similarity that aligns with Beck… to a level. “The stress of type of desirous to succeed, not even for his dad’s approval, however simply feeling like he must succeed,” the social media star begins to clarify.

“He is the cool man in class. He is purported to not have any issues,” he continues. “And so I feel that, I can say… I’ve felt that means earlier than the place I am like, ‘Yeah, I am purported to act like all the pieces’s okay as a result of on the surface, it is purported to be’,” says Beck.

“I feel there have been issues that I pulled the place I used to be like, ‘No, issues aren’t okay. I’ve baggage and I’m not all the time what I appear’,” he admits. “I feel that was one thing that was a little bit bit extra relatable, I’d say.”

Whereas Beck was in a position to relate to his character on quite a lot of completely different ranges, there was one trait particularly he could not fairly nail. That, partly, influenced the renaming of the movie’s title (which relies on Tay Marley’s novel, The QB Dangerous Boy and Me).

Beck recalled the one “recurring” word he was informed by a producer on set: “Decrease the tone. Maintain it douchey,” he says with amusing. “That was, I suppose, my cue to be a bit extra smug.”

The “demeanor” that makes Drayton “who he’s” is a trait that Beck says “Noah doesn’t all the time have.” “A lot that they dropped it from the title,” he quips in reference to the “dangerous boy” description.

Whereas the “dangerous boy facet was a bit more durable to drag,” in response to Beck, he can get behind the heartthrob label! “It is received a pleasant ring to it. I am unable to lie. I’ll put on it with pleasure,” he says of the title.

Beck, humble when acknowledging the label related together with his attractiveness and charming demeanor, described the sensation as “out-of-body.” He explains, “I have not actually been referred to as that, no less than to my face, I suppose.”

He concludes, “I feel it is one thing that I undoubtedly will put on with pleasure and I cannot take without any consideration — however I’ve all the time wished to play a job like this, and I am so blissful that this was my first.”