The affable yet socially awkward Lt. Jr. Grade Bradward Boimler from the adult animated series Star Trek: Lowers Decks, voiced by the talented comedic actor Jack Quaid, is starring in his first leading movie role in the action-comedy Novocaine.
Novocaine is premiering exclusively in theatres on the weekend of March 15th, 2025, and it’s likely to top the week's box office while competing with current top box office movies Mickey 17 (starring Robert Pattinson), Captain America: Brave New World (starring Anthony Mackie), and the live-action animated adventure Paddington in Peru.
Jack Quaid is the son of actors Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid, and it’s clear he inherited their comedic timing and acting talent from his wildly famous parents. Jack has voiced Boimler in Lower Decks for 5 seasons, and I couldn’t imagine anyone else portraying this accident-prone fastidious Federation “by the book” conformist!
Jack is deliciously hysterical as Boimler, and he even co-starred (purple hair in tow) in a Lower Decks crossover with live action Paramount+ series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, with Lower Decks’ Beckett Mariner (voiced by Tawny Newsome). Jack is an extremely talented actor and voiceover artist who's quite believable in sci/fi, fantasy, and superhero genres as the level-headed, honest, yet somewhat skiddiest protagonist.
For the past 4 seasons and its fifth and final season, in the satirical superhero series The Boys (streaming on Prime Video), Jack portrays Hughie Campbell - a non-super amongst a host of Compound-V “supped-up” super criminals, vigilantes and “wanna-be” dictators. Jack is continuing to pile up the acting credits (since his first movie role [as Marvel] in The Hunger Games) and he’s well on his way to becoming a bonafide movie star with his first leading movie role, in Novocaine.
In Novocaine, Jack stars as Nathan Caine, a young man who has a rare condition that renders him incapable of feeling physical pain. Notwithstanding his rare condition, Jack is determined to rescue his kidnapped girlfriend from her captors while enduring their bullets, knives, arrows, and more to thwart his rescue efforts. According to the movie trailer, Nate can still die, so that should make for an action-packed plot twist of a thrill ride.
In a recent podcast, Jack said that he has been #2 on the call sheet before, but this time with Novocaine for the first time he’s #1 on the call sheet. However, now that Jack has reached this #1 call sheet milestone, here’s to Novocaine debuting at #1 at the box office and with a “Certified Fresh” Rotten Tomatoes score of 81 on the Tomatometer, it's well on the way!