Jack Quaid is a true romantic!
“The Boys” star, 32, revealed the most extreme thing he’s ever done for love while at the 2025 SAG Awards on Sunday.
“For Valentine’s Day, I hired a mariachi band to show up,” Quaid exclusively told The Post on the show’s red carpet. “I’m on the second story of an apartment building, and they showed up outside and were there for like 30 minutes, and she was on the balcony, and it was great.”
Despite the actor and his girlfriend, Claudia Doumit, playing enemies on the Prime Video superhero drama, they have been going strong IRL since 2022.
“I wasn’t in town for Valentine’s Day,” Quaid continued. “So it was nice. She called me, and she was like, ‘The mariachi band is here.’ She didn’t know that a mariachi band was going… she was like I think you sent something? And I’m like, ‘Yeah!’ And I could hear on the phone the music.”
He gushed, “It was amazing.”
His sentiment was reminiscent of John Cusack’s character, Lloyd Dobler, in the 1989 rom-com “Say Anything.”
In the film, Lloyd holds a boom box over his head while serenading his love, Diane Court (Ione Skye). Lloyd has Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” blasting on the device while Diane comes out onto her balcony to watch from above.
During the film’s 30th anniversary in 2019, director Cameron Crowe described his mindset behind that iconic moment.
“That scene is like Romeo under the trellis,” he told USA Today at the time. “But I have this feeling when I watch it that it’s filled with double emotion – both with the story and the actors, whose own trepidation bleeds in.”
But art imitates life, much like in Quaid’s new action/thriller movie, “Novocaine,” which follows his character, Nathan Caine, going to extreme lengths for the girl of his dreams. Only this time, it’s to get her back after she is kidnapped.
Quaid opened up about what it took to work on such an action-packed project.
“I think for this movie, I got in the best shape of my life,” he told The Post. “It’s all gone now. It’s so fast it just goes away.”
“I was working out for months and training and doing very intense stunt choreography,” Quaid added. “And my character has a genetic disorder where he can’t feel pain.”
That made for a unique situation behind the scenes.
“So, choreographing fight scenes and figuring that out, you have a very human tendency to want to wince when you get hit in the face,” Quaid explained. “And controlling that and making sure I don’t wince was really, really interesting.”
He continued, “Also, my character’s not a trained fighter, so we got to have a lot of fun with that as well. It’s not so much about how much I can kick out; it’s about how much my a– can be kicked!”
