Jack Quiad is an actor who isn’t any stranger to blood and guts. Together with his ongoing function in The Boys (streaming with an Amazon Prime subscription) and appearances within the Scream giving him a ton of expertise with gory scenes. His new film Novocaine is chock full of untamed violence, and there was one scene particularly that grossed me out. And as he advised CinemaBlend, Quaid had the identical response.
CinemaBlend’s Novocaine overview praised the film’s motion, which facilities round Quaid’s hero Nathan who has a situation the place he would not really feel ache. He might be injured, however he merely would not really feel mentioned wounds as they occur. As you may see within the video above, I spoke to the 32 year-old actor about his new film, the place she shared that Nathan being tortured by having his finger nailed ripped off actually bothered him. As he put advised me:
I believed that I used to be going to be completely high-quality with this. However then there’s a scene, I received’t say what scene it’s, however there’s one sequence involving my fingernails. And that was my line. I can’t consider I discovered a line.
Truthfully, identical. Any scenes in motion pictures the place folks’s finger nails are injured/tortured are actually exhausting to look at. There’s one thing about fingers and eyes that simply give me the willies, and it appears like Jack Quaid agrees. And that man has seen all types of gore on set all through the years. In spite of everything, he was stabbed 22 instances on the finish of Scream, and has seen folks actually get ripped aside in The Boys.
Later in our identical dialog, the actor revealed that he was equally affected by a fake hand damage within the 2025 horror film Companion. In his phrases:
On Companion there’s a stun the place I had my hand slammed in a door and on this there’s one thing involving my finger nails. I believe every time it will get to my fingers I’m a little bit ‘Eugh.’ … I believe fingers get to me. I by no means thought this was a part of me
Truthfully, who can blame him? Whereas finger nail scenes are notably horrifying on movie, so are most hand accidents. Sadly for Quaid, he goes by a variety of hand atrocities all through the runtime of Novocaine. That features a sequence with a grease fryer, in addition to a scene with a knife from Novocaine‘s trailer.
Critics have been combined on Novocaine, with sure publications wishing that the idea of a protagonist who did not really feel ache was pushed a bit additional. As such, it ought to be attention-grabbing to see the way it performs in theaters. I personally had a final watching the violent and hilarious mission on the large display, and it is one in every of my favourite titles from the 2025 film launch listing to this point.