Novocaine star Jack Quaid has carved himself a niche by playing the everyman archetype with a genre twist. In The Boys, he's a nobody thrust into a world of superheroes. In Star Trek: Lower Decks, he's an ambitious worker bee on a starship.

Actor Jack Quaid stars as a man who can't feel pain in "Novocaine," a new action film that opens in theaters Friday. Quaid, known for his role as Hughie in the hit series "The Boys," plays Nathan Cain,

Those who tuned into Sunday's Los Angeles Clippers game may have been alarmed to see a bandaged and bruised Jack Quaid sitting courtside. Fortunately, Quaid was just promoting his new movie "Novocaine," and the wounds were all fake.