

Big events happen: I got transferred, and Shax died. I think you especially saw that in our Season 1 finale. “They grow, they change, they learn things about themselves, and they rank up – they get demoted. “You could easily write us off as ‘the funny Star Trek show,’ but I love that Mike and the writers made sure to make these people feel as real as possible,” says Quaid. Actually, make that Lieutenant Boimler.Īt the end of Lower Decks Season 1, Brad was promoted and transferred off the sleepy USS Cerritos – and, in theory, plunged straight into the action with Captain Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes) on the USS Titan.īoimler on the bridge of the USS Titan in the season 1 finale of Star Trek: Lower Decks. However Quaid plays the character, it appears a good bet that his interpretation will exist far removed from the darker Superman of Zack Snyder’s DC entries, and perhaps closer to what we’ve seen of the beloved character on The CW’s Superman and Lois.Īttack on Titan – For Trek fans, Quaid is already associated with earnest, well-meaning characters through his portrayal of the anxiously buttoned-up Ensign Bradward Boimler. “He's very earnest and just wants the best for everyone.” “There’s like this sheer purity to him,” Quaid says.
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Having the opportunity to portray this legendary character is “a gift,” he adds, though he can’t reveal much else about his upcoming take on the Man of Tomorrow – other than he’s researching with the help of the DC comic series All-Star Superman.

“Playing Superman is the other side of the coin,” says Quaid. In that context, taking on the titular role in My Adventures With Superman felt like a refreshing change of pace. “It's all terrible: fun to watch, but terrible!” “In the world of The Boys, people are covered in blood all the time and screaming,” Quaid tells Inverse. Superman himself, a far cry from his best-known role in Amazon’s blood-soaked superhero series. Next, Quaid will expand his range by starring in HBO Max’s My Adventures With Superman, an animated series in which he’ll play. After two seasons playing vigilante Hughie Campbell on Amazon’s smash-hit series The Boys, Quaid joined the Star Trek franchise, lending his nervous vocal stylings to the role of Brad Boimler in Paramount+’s animated Lower Decks.

Hopefully, he doesn’t start laughing every time he’s in a scene with Ghostface.Whichever fandom you belong to, there’s a good chance Jack Quaid is involved. And next year, he stars in the fifth Scream film. Much like Hughie on The Boys, his Trek character of Brad Boimler is also the heart of that show. In the meantime, if you love Jack Quaid as much as we do, you can check him out in his other currently running series, Star Trek: Lower Decks. The newest season wrapped filming in September, so it could be well into next year before we catch up with Hughie and the rest. We are not sure when the long-awaited third season of The Boys is coming out. You try to not laugh when hearing Karl Urban say lines like “every morning, he slathers his bum with creamy Desitin.” Sony Television / Prime Video But don’t judge Jack too harshly for not being able to keep his cool. This is right after he’s seriously wounded. This particular blooper comes from the episodes where Starlight (Erin Moriarty) and Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) bring Hughie to the hospital. You can watch the blooper reel, posted by The Boys Twitter account, above. The scene comes from the sixth episode of season two. In it, we see Quaid unable to stop himself from cracking up during a scene where he’s sedated and in a hospital bed.

Via Collider, we’ve come across this short blooper reel from season two of The Boys.
