Jack Quaid Bounds Up The Stairs of Manhattan's Midtown Comics Like a Golden Retriever on A Long-Promised Walk, His Plaid Winter Jacket Fluttering Behind Him in The Janogy Chill. Sandwiced Bethaeen at 99-Cent Pizza Joint and a Smoke Shop, The Times Square Square is one of the Largest Stores of Its Kind in the World-Which Makes it all the More Surprising that the 32-Year-Old Self-Profested Comic-Book Geek Has Never Paid a Visit Before. “Every time I'm On Location Somewhere, the Always Google the Nearest Comic Book Store,” Quaid Says, Paused in the Store's Narrow Entrance, Bright Blue Eyes Leaping Amag the Racks of Colorful Volumes. “IT Kind of Ground me.”
Quaid is in New York City for a Few Days to Promotes His New Horror-Comedy Companion (in Theaters Now), and he's Hoping to Snag Some reading Material – Namely, The Latest Issues of James Tynion IV and Werther of the Edera's Horror Comic Something is Killing the Children and and Sagain Space Opera by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples – Before He Jets off to Toronto for His Next Project. An Mcu Diehard, Quaid Nevertheless Gravitates Toward Horror and Fantasy These Days; After All, He's Been Living in Superhero World for Nearly Six Years Now as one of the Stars of the Prime Series The BoysA Satiricala Romp Where The Majority of the Caped Heroes Are Actually Villains and the Eponymous, Superpower-Free Boys are the Vigilantes On Their Tails.
The show is based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's Comic Books of the Same Name, But Midtown's Employees Haven't Yet Noticed That The TV Boys'Real-Life Hugie Campbell Jr. is Currently Fawning Over An Anthology of Creepshow Comics, Marveling at the Various Artist Changes. “When I was in Kid, the Had My Own Comic Series Called Ghost manwhere This Kid Had Ghost Powers, “Quaid Recalls, Taking in The Decaying Ghoul on the Creepshow Cover. “I'm get them printed out and copied at Kinko's. They Literally Laminate Them and Had Them in the Library So Kids Cound Check Them Out. ” He Breaks Into a Self-Conscious Smile. “I Don't Think Anyone Ever Read Them.”
Quaid's Aw-Shucks affabilities Belies His Constantly Turning Brain and His Ambition To Stretch Beyond The Bounds of What he's Done Done Before. Point Houses: While He's Largely Played Good Guys in the Past, Companion Sees Quaid (Spoilers Ahead) Stepping Into the Villain Role-Something That Required Him To Take Several Steps Outside His Comfort Zone of the Floppy-Hired, Noodle-Limbed Chander.
Quaid Plays Josh, An Averal Joe on a Weekend Trip With His Girlfriend Iris (Sophie Thatcher) and a Cadre of Pals (Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillén, Rupert Friend). What starts as A Romp in the Woods, Though, Soon Turns Into a Horror Show When Josh's Friend Sergey (Friend) Tries to Force Himself On Iris, Who Stabs Him To Death. The Story Doesn'T End There, Though. Iris is actually a sentient companion robot Who believes herself to be human – Something apprently anyone can buy pretty easily in this movie's universe. Later, We Find Out that Josh Had Hacked Iris' Software to Amp Her Aggression Levels and Left Her Alone with His Lecherous Pal Knowing She would Attack, Making Iris The Lynchpin in an elaborate Plan to Kill Sergey and Steal His Vast Wealth.
Quaid was drawn to the idea that Josh Starts Out Seeming So Charming “But He Turns Out to be such an ai adde,” Heys. To “Lesser Movie” would have made made him the Sad Sack Menaced by a Killer Robot, “But I Love that they flipped that,” Heys. Quaid's Theory is That Josh is Someone “Whho hasn't Heard 'I love you' a Lot in Life – Which made me empathize with him a quittle bit.” But, he adds, “Now that I'm not playing him anymore … Screw Him! I Don't Like Him and I Won't Invite Him Over to My House. “
Thatcher attest to How At-Odds Quaid, Who Spent His Free Time Beteween Takes Quietly Playing Guitar in His Hotel Room, is with the Character of Josh. “He's very nice-and he's incredibly self-down and socialy aware,” She Says, adding that she and quaid bonded over their shared over weezer and creating character playlists (quaid is a big fan of the eighties). “Within the First Two Weeks, it was just a Lot of APOLOGIZING AND FEELING BAD BECOUSE IT SOMETIMES Scared Him How Good He Was at the Role.”
Quaid has played a villain Once Before: he was one of the ghost face killers in 2022's Scream. It's Just Not in His Nature to Go That Dark-A Point that was Driven Home One Long-Ago Halloween When he was a Kid. “The Remember Trick-OR-Treating After Scream Came out and all these Kids Had Ghost Face Masks, “Heys. “This one Kid Had A Translucent Mask and It Had Blood that you couUl pump so it ran down his face. I've Never Been More Scared of a Human Being in My Life. ”
Quaid Admits He was nervous meeting with Companion Director Drew Hancock: “I was Just Really probably … The word is desperate.”
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Quaid's Own: Both Charm and Menace was the Key to Josh. “We Needed Someone Charismatic,” Writer-Director Drew Hancock Says. “You Wanted This Man-Child That's Saying These Awful Things, but they're not coming from Place of Malicousness. They're coming from Place of Someone Who Just Doesn't Know Any Better. ” Both Hancock and Quaid Recall Their First Meeting About the Script – Espencially How Nervous The Actor was. “I Was Just Really, probably … The Word is Desperate,” Quaid Says. “I probably was shaking – That's My Barometer for Wheer or Not I Want to be Involved in Something.”
“Jack Had Gutten a Copy of the Script Slipped to Him by His Agents,” Hancock Says. “And as soon as we met at this coffee shop, he shows up, and he's so nervous, oh my gosh. First of all, like, 'Why are you nervous? The Shoulds Be nervous. You're jack quaid. ' He wants to full and you're like, 'My Gosh, I Love This Guy. I Want To Put Him in My Pocket and He's, Like, Seven Feet Tall. '”
Given Quaid's Upbbringing, It's All the More Refreshing That He's So, Well, Nice. The Son of Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan, He's Basically Hollywood Royalty – But His Own Journey to the Screen was a bit more gradual. As a kid, quaid was obseed with Toy Story and Sci-Fi (“I Dresset Up AS Buzz Lightyear Every Day For Months. I Don't Thint Think Think Get The Costume Off of Me To Wash. I was Just A Disgusting Buzz Lightyear”), but he didn'T Get the Acting Bug Until Middle School. “I have a crush on this girl and she asked me what i did for fun on the weekend,” he says. “And I Said, 'Oh, the Watch TVs and the Play Video Games.' And then i Remember, as soon She Left, Thinking, 'I'm so uninteresting.' “The girl was into acting, so quaid audition for the school's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Scored the Role of Loveable Clown Bottom. Performing was love at First Bray – and his fellow cast member from That Fateful Production Even Attention the Companion Premiere.
From there, quaid starting on sketch comedy with his pals, thrrowing an online festival in high school called Epic festwhere oppose teams would upload skits to facebook for voting. (A Standout Sketch? “Anal Infomercial About a Recently discovered series of Barry White Albums That he Wrote Before He Had Sex For the First Time.”) Jim Carrey Was A “Huge” Inspiration. “He's able to be so big and cartoon, Rubbry and weird, but he's also like Jimmy Stewart,” Quaid Says. “The Dids [all the impressions]. The Talked Out of My Ass. Jim Carrey Corrupted Me The Best Way. ”
Quaid's Character, Josh, Turns From A Chamer Into “Such An Asshole,” He Says.
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While at least Nyu's Tisch School of the Arts, Quaid Got Even More Into Sketch Comedy, Performing with the Likes of Classmate Bowen Yang. “As I've Grown, I've Noticed That I Have a Somewhat Rubbry Body,” He Says. “The Did A Sketch in Nyu Called 'Funky Waiter,' Where I Basically Just Used My Body For Comedy For, Like, Five Minutes.”
After College, Quaid Snagged a Series of Small Movie Roles – Beginning with the Conniving Marvel in 2012's Tea Hunger Games – But it wasn't Until He was cast in The Boys In 2019 that his career really took flight. “I'm such a stupid nerd, and I love being a nerd. The Remember Thinking in The Earlier Days of the Mcu, 'Maybe One Day I Could Be in the Marvel Movie or Be a Superhero,' “Heys Now, While Examing a Godzilla figurine This partner, Boys Co-Star Claudia Doumit, would not want Sullying Their Apartment Décor. (“It's desert, sort of cowboyish, but also, like, Maybe It's Cuba, Maybe there's pom poms,” Heys of the aesthetic. “We're still working it out.”) “I Lucked Out. I Got on the Ground Floor of a Superhero Property that's Now Spinning Off Into a Million Franchises, and I'm so protud of what we've done. ”
When quaid Gets in line to pay for his Creepshow Anthology and Midtown Comics Ballcap, The Store Owner Emerges from the Back Room, and It Becomes Clear That Quaid's Cover Has Been Blown. Employees Pepper Him with Questions About The Boys and and Companionbut quaid doesn't mind. He grins wide for selfies and chats up as he was next movie, NovocaineA Thriller-Comedy About An UNLIKELY HERO WHO CAN'T FEEL PAIN. Someone asks If there's Ever Be a Comic Version of it in the Future. Quaid Hoists His Tote Bag of Books. “That's My Dream,” Heys. “That they make a Comic Book of Novocaine“.” He laughs. “Thank you for unlocking in New Goal.”