Jack Quaid

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."

- H. Alan Scott

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 Natha