Interview
ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THAT WEDDING TO BROOKLYN, NICOLA PELTZ-BECKHAM GIVES US HER TAKE
Please tell me it’s the real deal? I want to believe.
Despite the many other insights I pick up over the course of two days with 28-year-old actor Nicola Peltz-Beckham, this is the one question friends and colleagues relentlessly pester me with. Not Nicola’s secret to a razor-sharp jawline (a pre-shoot sculpting treatment with hyper-exclusive facial studio Sous La Face), not what surprised me most about her (possibly that she doesn’t have a driver’s licence) and not even about her highprofile friendship with Selena Gomez (keep reading for that). No, it seems the thing on everyone’s mind is a genuine desire for confirmation that her love story is not, in fact, too charmed to be real.
There are the near-daily Instagram posts (‘Happy birthday Nicola...I love you so so much baby’; ‘I’m the luckiest man I get to have you as my valentines every year forever’), the Instagram bios (‘Nicola’s husband’ and ‘Brooklyn’s wife’), the tattoos (at last count, Brooklyn had over 20 in her honour). That planet-sized rock on her finger and the multimillion-pound Palm Beach dream wedding. It’s enough to make you go, ‘Okay, but really?’ (And we all know those statistics, don’t we, that show a negative correlation between the high price of a wedding ring and the success of a marriage.) Still, for some reason, it’s hard not to wish this particular couple well, rather than want to pettily tear them apart.
And I have a theory as to why. While more and more big names stay exceptionally tightlipped about their love lives, Nicola and Brooklyn have made the opposite choice. Their relationship is open to public consumption on social media, at events, in videos and in press interviews. They’re willing to ‘go there’ and talk about the most intimate details. They not only seem to be together constantly – ‘Our love language is definitely quality time,’ laughs Nicola – but show us that togetherness constantly. Maybe it’s that we want to root for love once we’re actually let into it.
Is it real? I’m pretty sure they’re perfect for each other. Not just because they’re so willing to share the spotlight (a difficult endeavour in celebrityland), but because of how wholeheartedly they support one another’s individual ventures – which is good, because Nicola has many. She’s been acting professionally since she was 12 (most recently playing Dorot
