Jack Quaid, a teenage actor, is most known for his performance as Hugh “Hughie” Campbell in The Boys, but he also has other voice roles, including Brad Boimler in Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Clark Kent / Superman in My Adventures with Superman, and Earth-65 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse features Peter Parker as Lizard.

Of course, his most well-known role is in The Boys, and as we’re following the series here on Fiction Horizon, we came across an interesting interview Quaid recently gave for The Daily Beast’s “The Last Laugh” podcast.

During the interview, various intriguing subjects were explored. We’ve already covered Quaid’s comments about being labeled a “nepo 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢” because of his famous parents, as well as his thoughts on The Boys’ politics, but he also talked about his role in the series, Hughie Campbell.

As stated, the interview we are talking about was for The Daily Beast’s “The Last Laugh” podcast, in which Jack Quaid addressed several matters, and he was, at one point, asked to talk about his character and his evolution, to which he said:

Hughie is the first character you’ve gotten to play over the course of many years. How do you think he has changed since the show began? Because he’s obviously been through a lot.

That’s an understatement for sure. I love playing this character and I love that I get so much time with him. And I think Hughie’s a really interesting character, because he very much grounds the show. The show is insane and full of blood and superheroes doing very naughty things. And it took me a while to kind of understand my role, in a more meta sense, on the show. I’m the guy that has to react to the craziness in a realistic way—or as realistic as you can get on a show like this—in order to ground all of the insanity.

But I think he’s grown a lot. In this season we get into his abandonment issues. His mom left him when he was a kid, and now she’s back because his dad is sick. I got to work with Simon Pegg again. And he plays my dad on the show because in the original comic books Hughie, my character is modeled after Simon Pegg, which they did not get his permission for, by the way.

When did he realize that?

I think he’s just a nerd and he saw the comics and he saw his face, and instead of suing like a normal person, he was like, ‘Ahh, sick!’ So I want to thank him, because I think the show exists because Simon Pegg didn’t sue. But I got to work with him and Rosemarie Dewitt, who plays my mom, and they’re both incredible, so wonderful and so giving. I learned so much from both of them. And I’m going to cherish those days for the rest of my life.

Source: The Daily Beast

What do you think about Hughie and Jack Quaid’s performance? Is he a complex and layered character, or is Quaid simply subjective because he is talking about his own character? We’d love to hear your opinion on the matter, so let us know in the comments below!