With Novocaine (March 14), Jack Quaid is stepping into his leading man era. "It's the first time I've seen my face prominently featured on a billboard or a poster, and that is so surreal." Quaid plays Nathan, an ordinary man who turns his unique condition—a genetic disorder that leaves him unable to feel pain—into a superpower to save his girlfriend from kidnappers. "It's gross and crazy and nuts, but really, over the course of the movie, he is kind of a new babe in the woods. He's just discovering the world for the first time in a lot of ways, and he has this longing for something more." This character, who Quaid calls "the sweetest character I've ever played," comes after a string of performances in films like Companion and Scream, where Quaid played anything but a nice guy. "Once you're unburdened from the idea of likability, you can really expand and go to some weird places." But he likes that Nathan is the opposite. "Nate we're trying to make a likable character. I like that he's a very heroic character in a lot of ways, because he's risking everything for this girl." 

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