Safe to sayBrooklyn Peltz Beckhamhas felt the pressure of having a famous last name.
Tatlermagazine’s new cover star,Nicola Peltz Beckhamis opening up about the career struggles both she and her new husband have gone through.
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During the pandemic Brooklyn launchedCookin' with Brooklyn, a Facebook Watch show where he shares his adventures in the kitchen. Nicola believes this is his calling. “You can tell that when Brooklyn’s in the kitchen he’s in heaven,” she told Tatler. She continued, “Ever since the pandemic, all he’s wanted to talk about is being in the kitchen, so I just started filming him one day. I said, ‘This is what you love.’ "
Nicola also opened up about Brooklyn’s close relationship with her dad, revealing that he will always go to her father, a billionaire investment titan, for advice. “Brooklyn is getting into very exciting things with his shows and it’s really sweet, I watch him call my dad and say, ‘What do you think about this?’ I love watching him learn from my dad,” the told the outlet.
Nicola herself also opened up about the ups and downs of her career during the interview. After falling in love with studying drama at school, Nicola told her parents she wanted to pursue acting. Her parents said, “The only way we’ll support you is if you do not allow the rejection to upset you.”
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After that, Nicola got her first role inBlackbird, “an off-Broadway play about the reunion between a woman and a middle-aged man who sexually assaulted her 15 years earlier when she was 12.” Since then, she starred inTransformers: Age of Extinctionin 2014 and the horror seriesBates Motel.
Though she still loves her acting career, she says that rejection is constant. “I’ve heard ‘no’ a million and one times,” she said. She continued, “At a young age, I put up such a wall to failure that I kind of became a robot to it where it was like, ‘OK, it’s a no, moving on!’ … It’s not easy but you’ve got to wish the other person who gets the role the best. I always feel like what’s supposed to be yours will come to you.”
Nicola is currently working onLola James, an upcoming drama she wrote, directed and starred.
For the June 2022 digital issue ofBritish Vogue, the couple revealed that theytook a page out of David Bowie and Iman’s wedding bookwhen it came to planning their own ceremony.
“We’ve been to Rome twice, watching everyone in the atelier, they’re just so talented. The first time I went to Rome, I brought my mom and my brother Brad, who’s actually my man of honor, and then [stylist] Leslie Fremar who’s one of my best friends in the whole world,” she toldCRFashionBookon the collaborative design process. “It is really a beautiful thing to be a part of, and it’s very exciting.”
source: people.com
