At the tender age of 25, Brooklyn Beckham has already tried his hand as a photographer, influencer, model and chef. So when his wife landed her first film-directing gig, those working on the project predicted that it was only a matter of time before he joined her on set. And, sure enough, the footballer’s son quickly found himself in front of the camera. As Nicola Peltz Beckham explained, initially the plan was that he would appear incognito in her movie, Lola, in which she also plays the leading role.

‘I directed a film last year that I wrote when I was 23,’ she told the Hollywood Reporter. ‘And Brooklyn is still mad at me. He was like, “Can I be in your movie?” And I was like, “Oh my gosh, I would be honoured, but we have to disguise you.”. ‘Obviously he’s covered in tattoos and he’s British. So he did a few parts in the background which, if you pay attention, you can find, but in one scene he’s like, “Can I put the mic on, I wanna say a line?”’.

As word spread within the family of his pending speaking role, hopes were raised that Brooklyn might finally have found his calling. Mum and dad David and Victoria Beckham thought it was ‘so sweet and very romantic’, say friends, and chatter quickly began of a future Hollywood career even his ambitious parents couldn’t have dreamed of. Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz have been married since April 2022.

Nicola has revealed she cut Brooklyn from the finished version of her film, Lola. Ms Peltz plays the leading role in the movie, which has been criticised as 'poverty porn'. But when the film debuts in Britain later this month, anyone hoping to catch a glimpse of the rising star will be sorely disappointed – for his wife has revealed she cut him from the finished movie. ‘I started laughing so hard,’ reveals Nicola. ‘He had the most British accent ever. I ended up cutting him out! He sat there, in the editing room, he was like, “Did you really just cut me out while I’m sitting here?” I was like, “Yes, I love you so much!”’.

Those who know Brooklyn say that while he tried to laugh off the sacking, he was ‘pretty devastated’. ‘Brooklyn loves doing different things,’ said one friend. ‘He is always looking for the next thing, when it comes to Brand Brooklyn he’s clever, he has watched his parents build theirs for his whole life. ‘Being in a film which is now coming to Britain would have been amazing for him and in his mind could have led to more. But the fact is, he just wasn’t very good. Nicola had the chance of a lifetime to make her mark as a film director. She had to let him go, she laughs about it but it was a hard thing for her to do.

‘Brooklyn is like a loved up puppy around her, so to hand him news like that was actually not that easy to do.’. Perhaps rather predictably some sources close to the project are ‘relieved’ that Brooklyn’s fledging film career has ended before it began. ‘It really could have cheapened it,’ says one industry insider. The couple attend the film's premiere in Los Angeles. Victoria Beckham and her daughter-in-law had a rocky start to their relationship, but have seemingly made amends.

But cutting her husband’s scene is, sadly for Nicola, unlikely to end the ridicule she will face when the film is released here on February 7. Because already the irony of the story isn’t lost on the top brass of British television, some of whom are ‘howling with laughter’ at the ‘audacity’ that Nicola has chosen to focus on the underbelly of life in middle America. The movie tells the story of working-class Lola, played by Nicola, who is struggling to free herself and her little brother Arlo from a toxic home life. Their mother is an alcoholic and Lola is juggling a daytime job in a supermarket with nighttime work as a stripper to make enough money for them to escape.

The plot has been widely described as little more than ‘poverty porn’, with some critics even accusing Nicole of ‘exploiting’ hardship. And perhaps her critics have a point given that Nicola, the very wealthy daughter of American billionaire businessman Nelson Peltz and model Claudia Heffner, hails from a world of luxury and privilege her alter-ego Lola could never even dream of. Born in Westchester County, New York, she attended Rye Country Day School where annual fees range between £50,000 and £60,000 a year.

Home now is a £22million mansion in Beverly Hills, having grown up splitting her time between her family’s Palm Beach residence and a 27-bedroom mansion in Bedford, New York. The Peltz’s 130-acre Palm Beach estate once belonged to DeWitt Wallace, the co-founder of Reader’s Digest, and boasts an indoor ice rink, a flock of albino peacocks and a collection of Old Masters. Nicola's father is American billionaire businessman Nelson Peltz, pictured far left with Elon Musk and the couple.