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''' JACK QUAID'S JACK '''

A WELL-CONNECTED ACTOR with something to prove. Jack Quaid is out to prove he's not just his parents' son.

OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS - Jack Quaid has proved himself. And as the star of two movies out this winter, his value as a leading man is confirmed. 

He is beautifully smarmy in '' Companion '' a romantic thriller with a sci-fi twist. And he is a sweetheart of an accidental action hero in the punchy thriller ''Novacaine'' due March 14, in which he plays a timid assistant bank manager with congenital inability to feel pain.

[ Quaid's own pain threshold : '' Not high ! '' ] He is also currently wrapping the fifth and final season of '' The Boys,'' Amazon's body fluid-soaked anti superhero show. 

He leads the cast as Hughie, a normal-ish guy in an enthusiastically abnormal world. And has two other movies in postproduction : the thriller '' Neighbourhood Watch '' and the action comedy '' Heads of State.''

Sometimes a Quaid-character is despicable. More often, he is intensely and effortlessly likeable, which seems true of Quaid offscreen.

The half a dozen of Quaid's colleagues that I spoke to compulsively repeated words like ''giving,'' '' grounded, '' '' gracious,'' ''healthy,'' ''kind.''

'' I can't emphasize enough how amazing he is and shouldn't be,'' Drew Hancock, who wrote and directed '' Companion,'' said Eric Kripke, the showrunner of '' The Boys,'' called him '' a minor miracle '' and Erin Moriarty, his romantic interest on '' The Boys,'' seemed lightly awed by him.

'' He is such an earnestly good person,'' she said. '' His work ethic, the way he shows up, his ability to be generous, it comes from such an earnestly good place of wanting others to thrive.''

When Quaid was younger, his parents, who wanted him to have a normalish childhood, made a rule that he couldn't audition for professional projects until he was an adult. Quaid limited himself to that camcorder and the occasional school play.

He shot the first '' Hunger Games '' movie after his first year and dropped out after his third year, so that he could make more in-person auditions.

His next significant role was on '' Vinyl '' [ 2016], the short-lived, 1970s-set Martin Scorsese series.

After that the roles came quickly, a part in Steven Soderbergh's crime film '' Logan Luck '' [ 2017], a romantic lead in the comedy '' Plus One '' [ 2019]. But in 2018, he booked '' The Boys.''

Kripke was sold from that first audition. '' We wanted someone who could be a credible romantic interest for a superhero and still be a little nerdy and not quite comfortable in their own skin,'' he said.

Quaid, whom Kripke described, correctly and affectionately, as ''a little too tall for whatever is inside his body,'' could do all that.

'' It is actually kind of rare to find an actor with that true Everyman ability,'' Kripke said 

Variations on Everyman seem to be Quaid's type. But while he is often cast as the boy next door, he complicates that address. The squares he plays have a few extra angles. Quaid can twist a type, make it gnarly '' Extremely gnarly,'' he said.

He can make the uncool, cool, off-screen and sometimes on. '' He's very nerdy in the most grounded, charming way,'' Sophie Thatcher, his co-star in '' Companion,'' said. And he knows how to use his too-tall physique - Quaid calls himself a '' floppy, floppy boy '' - to rollicking effect.

And even as he's the first to acknowledge he had an initial leg up - OK, a couple of legs - he is proud of what he has since accomplished. He knows that his parents are proud of him, too.

'' They are and that means a lot,'' he said. '' Wouldn't it be weird if I was like, ' They're ashamed.' But no, they're proud. They are.''

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