Jack Quaid: ‘The Boys’ and Embracing His ‘Nepo Baby’ Roots
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Jack Quaid has taken great pains to carve out a unique path for himself in Hollywood. Determined not to follow too closely in the footsteps of his very famous parents (Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan), the 32-year-old actor has fully embraced “genre” storytelling, from his very first blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role in the first ‘Hunger Games’ film to his break-out performance as the endlessly relatable Hughie Campbell in Amazon Prime Video’s wildly popular comic book adaptation ‘The Boys,’ currently streaming its fourth season. In this episode, Quaid breaks down his character’s evolution, shares his view on the show’s satirical politics and teases just how “insane” the fifth and final season could get. He also shares stories from working with Christopher Nolan on ‘Oppenheimer’ and openly admits that he is definitely a “nepo baby” no matter what his mother, the “undisputed queen of rom-coms” has to say about it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and this week on the show, |
| 0:10.5 | we have my interview with an actor who most people probably don't think of as a comedian, |
| 0:16.3 | even though he got his start in sketch comedy, and as we established right off the bat in our conversation, |
| 0:21.7 | is definitely a fellow comedy nerd. Over the past few years, Jack Quaid has been best known for playing |
| 0:28.5 | the Everyman audience avatar character Huey Campbell on the ridiculously popular and obsessed |
| 0:35.1 | over Amazon Prime series, The Boys. |
| 0:42.5 | From his very first, very small role in the first Hunger Games movie, |
| 0:47.7 | Jack has fully embraced genre, film, and TV shows, including Scream, |
| 0:51.7 | Spider-Man Across the Spider-verse, and My Adventures with Superman, |
| 0:55.5 | while also making time for some detours like the underrated, |
| 1:00.8 | in my opinion, rom-com plus one, and the most recent Best Picture winner Oppenheimer. |
| 1:07.0 | But The Boys is a behemoth unto itself, with season four airing right now and the fifth and final season set to start filming later this year. Jack and I went deep on that deeply |
| 1:12.9 | satirical show, including its eerie ability to predict our own bizarre political reality, and also got |
| 1:20.0 | into the whole Nepo baby debate that has followed him around as the only child of two very |
| 1:25.2 | famous movie stars, Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan. |
| 1:29.1 | Believe it or not, Jack brought that up before I did. |
| 1:32.6 | Before we get to the interview, here's a clip from the very first episode of The Boys, |
| 1:37.7 | in which we meet Jack's character Huey just before his life is forever altered by a careless superhero. |
| 1:45.0 | This is like when we started dating. |
| 1:48.0 | I don't think that's true. |
| 1:50.0 | Dude, I had to ask you out. |
| 1:53.0 | Well, excuse me for waiting. |
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