Jack Quaid is a real romantic!
“The Boys” star, 32, revealed essentially the most excessive factor he’s ever performed for love whereas on the 2025 SAG Awards Sunday.
“For Valentine’s Day, I hired a mariachi band to show up,” Quaid solely advised The Submit on the present’s purple carpet. “I’m on the second story of an apartment building, and they showed up outside and were there for like 30 minutes, and she was on the balcony, and it was great.”
Regardless of the actor and his girlfriend, Claudia Doumit, taking part in enemies on the Prime Video superhero drama, they’ve been going sturdy IRL since 2022.
“I wasn’t in town for Valentine’s Day,” Quaid continued. “So it was nice. She called me, and she was like, ‘The mariachi band is here.’ She didn’t know that a mariachi band was going … she was like I think you sent something? And I’m like, ‘Yeah!’ And I could hear on the phone the music.”
He gushed, “It was amazing.”
His sentiment was paying homage to John Cusack’s character, Lloyd Dobler, within the 1989 rom-com “Say Anything.”
Within the movie, Dobler holds a growth field over his head whereas serenading his love, Diane Court docket (Ione Skye). Dobler has Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” blasting on the gadget whereas Court docket comes out onto her balcony to look at from above.
In the course of the movie’s thirtieth anniversary in 2019, director Cameron Crowe described his mindset behind that iconic second.
“That scene is like Romeo under the trellis,” he advised USA Right this moment on the time. “But I have this feeling when I watch it that it’s filled with double emotion – both with the story and the actors, whose own trepidation bleeds in.”
However artwork imitates life, very similar to in Quaid’s new motion/thriller film, “Novocaine,” which follows his character, Nathan Caine, going to excessive lengths for the woman of his goals. Solely this time, it’s to get her again after she is kidnapped.
Quaid opened up about what it took to work on such an action-packed venture.
“I think for this movie, I got in the best shape of my life,” he advised The Submit. “It’s all gone now. It’s so quick it simply goes away.
“I was working out for months and training and doing very intense stunt choreography,” Quaid added. “And my character has a genetic disorder where he can’t feel pain.”
That made for a novel state of affairs behind the scenes.
“So, choreographing fight scenes and figuring that out, you have a very human tendency to want to wince when you get hit in the face,” Quaid defined. “And controlling that and making sure I don’t wince was really, really interesting.”
He continued, “Also, my character’s not a trained fighter, so we got to have a lot of fun with that as well. It’s not so much about how much I can kick out; it’s about how much my ass can be kicked!”
