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.

Tanner — who stars as Nathan Bryan, Dallas’ older brother and highschool soccer coach — stated that he had “no thought 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, instructed TooFab. “I believe it was a type of issues the place at first it was like, ‘Yeah, you want something?’ However he did actually nice and I do not assume he wanted my assist in any respect. He was incredible.”

Agudong echoed her on-screen brother.

“I second that. I believe respect was an important phrase to make use of. He did respect it and he revered folks on set,” she stated. “He additionally simply wished to develop, and he saved saying that from the start and would textual content me beforehand and ask for suggestions. And I used to be hesitant to present them as a result of I wished to see what he needed to deliver first, and I did not wanna affect him in any approach 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 any individual asks me for recommendation or one thing, I am like, ‘Ask me in 50 years once I know extra,’” Tanner jokingly added. “As a result of possibly I do not know what I am doing.”

In the meantime, Cox — who performs Dallas’ dance trainer — shared related ideas about Beck’s performing debut whereas talking with TooFab.

“He was nice. He truthfully was nice,” she stated. “[Agudong and Beck] have been … I fed off of their chemistry, their pure chemistry and magic that they dropped at the display. And it was nice. [Director Justin Wu] knew these moments to tug 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 fantastic, stunning human. Strolling on set, even simply the primary day you’ll be able to, I imply, everybody revered him,” Agudong stated. “He simply introduced such nice power to set. We have been laughing our heads off, after which the minute it become the scene … truthfully, generally it was onerous to take your self out of it watching him. He is simply so fascinating, however a stunning human being.”

Tanner referred to as Van Der Beek “great,” earlier than reflecting on attending to work with different former teen stars from the ’90s, resembling Skeet Ulrich and the late Luke Perry, throughout his time on Riverdale.

“I have been so lucky too with Riverdale, we started working with folks, a part of his class, like Luke Perry and Skeet Ulrich,” he shared. “One factor I seen — identical factor with James, that he has as effectively — is that if you meet them, they’re very, like, all the pieces’s simple. Every thing’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 like his work,” she stated, earlier than recalling seeing Van Der Beek on display within the movie. “It was so great. Seeing the chemistry with him and Noah, and [playing] this stern father. … I like that you possibly can inform that their relationship was so advanced. It was actually thrilling to look at and to see all of those characters come to life.”

“We acquired 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 superb time.”

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Sidelined: The QB and Me will probably be accessible to stream on Tubi on November 29.