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 debut 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 of The Last Laugh podcast, 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.
“I am a fellow comedy nerd for sure,” Quaid assures me at the top of our conversation. But he also describes himself as a “huge nerd” period, a fact that has helped inform the types of projects he has been drawn to as an actor and made him desperate to get cast in The Boys. “I’d honestly be an extra in the show just to say I was in it,” he says.
