Noah Beck is ready for more challenges outside of his social media presence.
The TikTok star, who recently made his movie debut in Tubi’s Sidelined: The QB and Me, recently opened up to People magazine about pivoting from content creation to acting and how he hopes to expand his career in Hollywood.
Before acting and becoming a sensation on TikTok in 2020, Beck actually had another dream. “Professional soccer was plan A and there was really no plan B… Growing up, I didn’t really know anything other than that in terms of what I wanted to do,” he admitted.
However, Beck ultimately dropped out of the University of Portland where he played D1 soccer when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and blew up on TikTok shortly after, launching a successful career on social media. But even after garnering more than 33 million followers on the short-form video platform, he was starting to look for a new challenge.
That’s when acting came into the picture, despite knowing “nothing about it” and having to start from “ground zero,” Beck said. He first scored a guest role on Disney’s Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. before landing the role as star football player Drayton Lahey in Quarterback: A QB and Me, which premiered on Tubi Nov. 29.
Looking ahead to hopefully more acting roles, Beck said of his social media career, “I think there will be a time where I won’t become as reliant on it and I won’t feel like I need to stay relevant, if you will, to keep the views coming… the paychecks coming in. I hope that acting can take some of that weight off.”
While Beck likes that “you’re your own kind of boss” when it comes to making a living from full-time content creation, he said, “At times, [it] can be a bit exhausting.”
“With acting, you check in and then you check out,” he explained. “It’s a job… and I like the idea of having the structure.”
However, Beck’s ideal future would be to have the “best of both worlds,” adding, “I would love to continue to work as an actor and have fun with social media on the flip side.”
