Over the last few years, 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. And in 2025’s Companion, he’s a sinister (yet all too familiar) “nice guy” with a robot girlfriend.
‘Novocaine’ trailer: Jack Quaid goes on a gnarly quest for vengeance
Quaid’s leading role in Novocaine feels like a natural continuation of these genre-bent everymen. He plays Nathan Caine, a mild-mannered assistant bank manager who has congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA), a genetic disorder that impacts his nervous system to the point that he can’t feel pain or temperature.
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