Jack Quaid<\/a> fractured his ankle a week before his first leading role as a child.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Jack Quaid suffered a painful injury days before his first school play<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old actor – who appeared in 2012’s ‘The Hunger Games’ before finding fame in the likes of ‘Scream’, ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Novocaine’ – has recalled a painful injury he suffered as he prepared for his first foray into acting.<\/p>\n
He told the ‘Smallzy’s Surgery’ podcast: “I remember when I was in Middle School, I was doing the first ever play – I was a lead, entering my Middle School leading man era.<\/p>\n
“That’s when I became a real p***k! But I remember, a week out before the first performance, parkour had just entered the zeitgeist and I was like, ‘I’m gonna jump off this locker into the next locker’.<\/p>\n
“And I immediately fractured a bone in my foot… I didn’t make the jump, but I did the entire performance with a giant boot on my foot.”<\/p>\n
\nJack admitted he has never “returned to parkour” since that day, but joked he could do “maybe some time in the future”.<\/p>\n
\nHis latest role in ‘Novocaine’ sees him star as bank employee Nathan Caine with an inability to feel pain.<\/p>\n
\nJack revealed he has suffered “a few” injuries on other film sets.<\/p>\n
\nHe said: “I remember, I was – there’s a few. I’ve bruised a rib on a job – not this one. A freak accident.”<\/p>\n
\nJack – who is the son of actors Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan – previously insisted he doesn’t mind being branded a nepo baby, because he knows he has an advantage growing up in the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n
\nDiscussing the label, he told The Daily Beast: “I’m inclined to agree. I am an immensely privileged person, was able to get representation pretty early on, and that’s more than half the battle. <\/p>\n
\n“I knew the door was open for me in a lot of ways that it’s just not for a lot of actors. <\/p>\n
\n“And I’ve just tried to work as hard as I possibly can to prove that I deserve to walk through that door. So if that’s in the rom-com space, it’s got to be different enough, and I need to work my a** off.”<\/p>\n
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