The recent WTF Season 4 finale of The Boys left viewers scrambling. It sure looked like the end of the line for the hit Prime Video series. Even Dennis Quaid, father of Jack Quaid, who plays forever embattled Hughie Campbell in the trippy superhero show, told MovieWeb in June: “This may be the last season, I’m not sure.”
A collective sigh of relief finally came in the form of an Instagram post from series star Karl Urban (Billy Butcher), which featured the actor in character, blood-soaked and all, with a post that read: “Working with the illustrious Jeffrey Dean Morgan was the best part of my day, every day. That’s all The Boys for now folks. See you in… two years (wish it was sooner) for the final season on Prime Video.”
Dennis Quaid couldn’t be prouder of his son, Jack Quaid, and was watching The Boys episode-by-episode like the rest of us. The veteran actor, who’s about to turn heads again by starring as Ronald Reagan in the upcoming biopic, Reagan, went on to praise his son’s work in the Prime Video show and Jack’s other, much softer superhero hit, My Adventures with Superman, saying:
He’s just getting started. You know, he’s in his early 30s, and now you’re going to really see what this guy can do.
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Dennis Quaid on How Jack Quaid Did It His Way
The Boys
- Release Date
- July 26, 2019
- Seasons
- 4
- Studio
- Amazon Studios
Jack Quaid captured our attention as Marvel, a minor antagonist, in the first Hunger Games movie. Of course, Star Trek: Lower Decks fans know him as the beloved Lt. Bradward Boimler in the animated series. With The Boys costar inadvertently confirming Season 5 may arrive in two years’ time, look for Quaid to complete his story arc, particularly the complex relationship he shares with Erin Moriarty’s befuddled Starlight. We asked Dennis Quaid if his son always wanted to act, to which he quipped:
“
From the time that he was like four years old, he was carrying around a video camera
making little movies and stuff like that. It was just part of him.
Yes, he was the son of Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid, but that didn’t work.
He was in high school drama, and then he was at NYU in the drama and film programs… then it comes time, and he’s going to get an agent. And my agent that I always had throughout life just wanted to handle him. And he said, ‘
No, dad, I want to do this on my own.
’”
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Father and Son Soar to New Heights
The younger Quaid went out and nabbed his own agent, in fact. “The next thing I know, I’m hearing that he’s in The Hunger Games. That’s his first movie. And then the second job he got, he’s working with Martin Scorsese on Vinyl,” Dennis Quaid added. He continued with a laugh:
Then he gets
The Boys
. And I’m kind of like, ‘How about a little help over here? Let’s do a check.’ […] But he really has done it on his own […] He’s just getting started. You haven’t seen nothing from him yet.
Stay tuned on that front. In the meantime, look for Dennis Quaid, a longtime audience favorite thanks to films like Great Balls of Fire, Breaking Away, The Right Stuff, The Hill, and The Rookie, to turn in a powerful performance in Reagan. The highly anticipated biopic, directed by Sean McNamara (Soul Surfer), tracks Ronald Reagan’s luminous life — from childhood to his time in the Oval Office. Penelope Ann Miller (Birth of a Nation, Carlito’s Way) costars, playing Nancy Reagan. Reagan hits theaters August 30. Watch the trailer below.