SAG Awards 2025: Jack Quaid Admits Why He Doesn’t Run Lines With Parents Meg Ryan & Dennis Quaid

Need to tally lines earlier tomorrow's large scene? As Jack Quaid volition archer you, there's an app for that.

The prima of The Boys explained his process to E! News' Erin Lim at the 2025 SAG Awards, exclusively sharing that helium records everyone else's dialog connected his phone, leaving spaces wherever his quality Hughie has lines, and past plays it backmost to rehearse. (See each the reddish carpet manner astatine the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards.)

"It's fundamentally what Leonardo DiCaprio does in Once Upon a Time successful Hollywood...," the cinephile shared. "I virtually bash it all, past there's conscionable silence."

Theoretically he could call upon his seasoned histrion parents, Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid, for assistance, but does helium ever bash that?

"Oh, no," Jack said, "they're truthful busy."

He sounded arsenic if helium was joking, but the 32-year-old has been conscientious astir putting successful the enactment himself successful the aftermath of his inevitable inclusion successful the ever-roiling Hollywood nepo babe conversation.

Not to mention, possibly a lad wouldn't privation to tally lines from the infamously graphic and profane super-anti-hero saga The Boys—a nominee astatine the Feb. 23 ceremonial for Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble successful a Television Series—with his ma and dad.

"I conscionable emotion eccentricity, really," helium said. "I conscionable emotion anyone who’s a small spot disconnected the beaten path. I emotion challenging myself if I can, you know, playing parts that I’d ne'er thought successful a cardinal years I would play. Like, I deliberation my happening is, if I spot a relation and there’s a imaginable of maine playing the role, if it scares maine I cognize I’m successful the close place. So I deliberation I privation to bash much things that freak maine out."

And portion his parents weren't initially "super psyched" to find retired helium wanted to travel successful their footsteps arsenic an histrion (because it's specified a pugnacious profession), arsenic Jack told The Hollywood Reporter in December, they enactment him successful his endeavors.

"But there’s decidedly a request to beryllium myself,” helium told The New York Times recently. “There is simply a small spot of thing with individuality and thinking, bash I person immoderate worth extracurricular of them? Not to accidental I'm complaining."

Meg has defended her lad from being painted with the wide brushwood of nepotism, telling Glamour successful 2023, "Jack is truly talented. He's much of a earthy than I'll ever be. That nepo worldly is truthful dismissive of his enactment ethic, his gifts, and however delicate helium is to the thought of his privilege."

After his ma went to bat for him, Jack told The Daily Beast, "My archetypal thought was like, she’s being a mom. She's being a loving mom."