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Amber Midthunder jokingly calls Jack Quaid ‘an icon, the Tom Hanks of our generation’

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Jack Quaid and Amber Midthunder star in Novocaine, an hilarious action comedy about a man who doesn’t feel pain. It was top at the box office this weekend, although the box office was very weak overall. At my local theater on Sunday there were only two other couples. (To be fair it was a beautiful day, although it was supposed to rain, which is why we went to the movies.) If you like action movies, and horror because there are some real gross out scenes, you will love this film. I was impressed by how much heart and humor it had. A lot of that is due to Jack Quaid, who is incredibly watchable on screen. He’s a definite nepo baby as the son of Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan, which he admits gives him immense priviledge in his industry. He obviously puts in a lot of work and is humbler about it. I watched several interviews with him and he’s self-deprecating and happy to promote his projects.

In an interview with JoBlo, Amber called Jack “an icon” and “the Tom Hanks of our generation” as he put his head in his hands and got embarrassed. You can tell she’s done this to him several times and that it makes him uncomfortable. Here are some details of their interview, and the video is below.

Amber Midthunder on Jack Quaid


He is truly just an icon, the Tom Hanks of our generation.

On the possibility of a sequel


Jack: obviously nothing is official, but it’s something I’ve fantasized about from day one. I would love that. I love playing this character. If there’s a sequel I would love that.


Amber: It would be so lovely to live in this world with [Nate and Sherry] together.

Co-director Robert Olsen on casting Jack Quaid


When we were taking our pass on the script, because there are two of us, we always try to cast a dream actor so that we’re writing in the same voice. We were watching The Boys at the time and we were like this this role is so Jack Quaid, never thinking that we’d actually be able to get him to be in the movie. When he eventually signed on it was quite literally a dream come true. This movie doesn’t work if Nate Isn’t So Earnest and likable and sweet and that is Jack Quaid in real life he is that guy he’s one of the just the most nice gracious people that you could ever hope to meet and so you know once we once we all got to set together man it was just such a blast. A;; of the actors had such great vibes and it was an awesome family friendship environment on set and I think you can really feel that energy in the film.

[From JoBlo on YouTube]

In the JoBlo interview, below, he also speaks separately to co-directors Dan Berk and Robert Olsen and other castmembers, Ray Nicholson and Jacob Batalan. Nicholson and Batalan said how great it was to work with Berk and Olsen. Berk and Olsen described their process of making the film, which involved adapting a darker script from Lars Jacobson to be funnier. They did an excellent job! It’s also sweet how they dream cast Jack Quaid and felt like it was a dream come true to have him star. You could definitely tell that everyone had a good rapport.

Now that Novocaine is a critical and commercial success, people are talking about a sequel of course and about potential other roles for Jack Quaid. He looks a lot like the lead character in the video game Max Payne, and fans are noticing. Amber might not be that far off in calling him this generation’s Tom Hanks. Like his character in Novacaine, he comes across as a reluctant movie star, just putting in the work and being surprised when it pays off.

Jack with his girlfirend, The Boys costar Claudia Doumit


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Jack Quaid: ‘People have called me a ‘nepo baby.’ I’m inclined to agree’

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Jack Quaid is the 32-year-old son of Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid. I honestly didn’t realize that he’s in his 30s already, for some reason I thought he was, like, mid-20s. Time flies. Anyway, Jack is an actor, like his parents. He’s been in films like Oppenheimer, Scream (the reboot) and Logan Lucky. He’s doing/done TV shows like The Boys, Vinyl and Star Trek: Lower Decks. He’s not a scrub, he’s a working actor and someone I would put more in the “character actor” category rather than lead-actor. Well, Jack Quaid has heard all of the nepo baby chatter and he has something to say:

Jack Quaid doesn’t shy away from being called a “nepo baby.”

“No matter what I do, people are going to call attention to it. People have called me a ‘nepo baby.’ I’m inclined to agree,” said the 32-year-old “The Boys” star, whose parents are Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan. “I am an immensely privileged person, was able to get representation pretty early on, and that’s more than half the battle.”

Meg Ryan recently defended her son against being called a “nepo baby” in a Glamour magazine profile. “Jack is really talented. He’s more of a natural than I’ll ever be,” Ryan said. “That nepo stuff is so dismissive of his work ethic, his gifts, and how sensitive he is to the idea of his privilege.”

Quaid addressed her comments in The Daily Beast interview by saying, “She’s being a loving mom. But I don’t think she’s trying to say that I’m not a nepo baby. I think she’s just trying to say that, in her opinion, it undermines my talent. I don’t think it undermines my talent. I know that I work hard, and I know I’ve heard ‘no’ way more than I’ve heard ‘yes.’ But I also know that this industry is insanely hard to break into, and I had an easier time doing that than most. Both things can be true. So no, I don’t think she was trying to say that I’m not a privileged person. She knows. She must know. I think she was being a mom.”

[From Variety]

I love his answers, honestly. I’ll say this too – while he is a nepo baby and he’s gotten a leg up from his famous name and his famous parents, it helps that he doesn’t really look like either parent. He’s a mix of them, but you don’t look at him and say “oh, that’s Dennis Quaid’s son, for sure.” That alone has helped him carve out his own niche, his own career. But yeah, this is what I want from nepo babies. Acknowledge your privilege, acknowledge that you had an easier time.

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Meg Ryan’s kids call her deli scene in When Harry Met Sally a ‘unique embarrassment’

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I always forget that Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid were married, and that Jack Quaid is their son. Jack is 31 now and an actor with a pretty decent resume, including The Boys and the 2022 Scream series reboot. Meg also has a daughter, Daisy, who is 19 years old and has thus far stayed under the radar. Having famous parents can have its perks (see: Jack’s career) but for some, it also comes with the downside of being embarrassed by things your parents have done throughout their own careers. Meg’s children get a bit cringy over *that* famous scene from When Harry Met Sally.

Many movie fans consider Meg Ryan’s fake orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally to be one of the most iconic moments in rom-com movie history. Her kids would use a different word to describe it.

This week, Ryan was interviewed by Carol Burnett for Interview magazine. The duo talked about Ryan’s upcoming movie with David Duchovny, her life and her movie career, including that famous scene inside Katz’s Deli from 1989.

During the interview, Burnett thanked the 61-year-old actress for her many wonderful movie moments, including the fake orgasm scene, and asked if she had to do it more than once.

“We probably did that over and over and over again,” Ryan revealed. The actress explained that the movie had even come up that morning during a phone call with her son, actor Jack Quaid, and her daughter, Daisy Ryan.

“It’s funny, my son just called me this morning and he’s in New York staying at a hotel that’s right across the street from Katz’s Deli,” she said. “My daughter was here and everybody was on speaker, and they were like, ‘Mom, this is a very unique embarrassment.’”

Ryan shared that the 31-year-old Scream actor told his family, “You know you can go into that deli and there’s an arrow pointing down to the table where you shot that scene.”

In 2019, Quaid revealed that he had been resisting seeing the Rob Reiner and Nora Ephron film, telling InStyle, “It’s one of those things, where if you really think about it, you don’t want to see your mom having a fake orgasm in a deli when you’re growing up. I avoided it.”

The Boys actor eventually watched the movie while filming his own rom-com, Plus One. “I watched the movie, because I’m doing a rom-com, I have to watch the rom-com, and the movie’s so much more than that scene,” he told the outlet.

[From Yahoo]

LOL at “a very unique embarrassment.” I think this is so funny. I could see maybe being embarrassed by it as a kid if all of my friends were teasing me about it. As an adult, though, I’d embrace it by walking right into Katz’s Deli, sitting down under the arrow at that table, and post a picture of me doing some pose (I haven’t thought that one through yet) all over my social media. And OF COURSE the movie is more than just that one scene. It’s just that one scene is a classic. I do love the whole movie, even though it’s always bummed me out that they missed the opportunity to prove that men and women really can be just friends. But then it wouldn’t be a rom com, would it?

I think it’s fairly common knowledge that the woman who delivered the famous, “I’ll have what she’s having” line was Rob Reiner’s mother, but I didn’t realize until I started reading about it that the fake orgasm scene was written in because the movie was starting to focus too much on Billy Crystal’s Harry. Nora Ephron suggested a scene in which the two leads are talking about women faking orgasms and Ryan herself came up with the idea to act it out. However, Daisy and Jack may find a kindred spirit in Rob Reiner. The director has said in interviews that while he was showing Ryan what he wanted from the scene, he did his own fake orgasm, explaining, “I realized, this is embarrassing, I’m having an orgasm in front of my mother.” Uniquely embarrassing experiences all around!

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