Billionaire’s Daughter, Nicola Peltz Beckham, Slammed For Making A 'Poverty Porn' Film

A movie steeped in ignorance will likely not affect Nicola Peltz Beckham ’s career — but its messaging could potentially bolster unfair stereotypes about poverty.

Peltz Beckham, who is the daughter of billionaire businessman and investor Nelson Peltz and daughter-in-law of power couple David and Victoria Beckham, is receiving criticism for her film, “Lola.”

The movie, which marks Peltz Beckham’s writing and directorial debut as well as her first leading role, premiered in February with a limited theatrical and digital release. However, it is now garnering attention thanks to a scathing review published last week in The Guardian by writer and filmmaker Kady Ruth Ashcraft, who described the film as “a bad movie” and “poverty porn.”

“Peltz Beckham did achieve something with ‘Lola’: it’s called ‘poverty porn,’” Ashcraft wrote. “And in film, that means the exploitation of the conditions of poverty for entertainment and artistic recognition.”

She later added, “What makes ‘Lola’ such a flagrant example of poverty porn is just how careless the project feels in the context of Peltz Beckham’s exceptionally lavish life.”

HuffPost has reached out to Peltz Beckham for comment but did not receive an immediate response.

According to a plot synopsis on IMDb, Peltz Beckham plays the titular Lola, a poor 19-year-old woman who is trying to save enough money to get herself and her little brother, Arlo (Luke David Blumm), out of their mother Mona’s (Virginia Madsen) toxic home. Lola hopes to do this by working two jobs: at a drugstore with her best friend, Babina (Raven Goodwin), and dancing at a strip club.

Peltz Beckham previously told WWD that she wrote the initial script for “Lola” six years ago over the course of three days.