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    Jack Quaid fractured his ankle a week before his first leading role as a child

    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


    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.

    "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'.

    "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."

    Jack admitted he has never "returned to parkour" since that day, but joked he could do "maybe some time in the future".

    His latest role in 'Novocaine' sees him star as bank employee Nathan Caine with an inability to feel pain.

    Jack revealed he has suffered "a few" injuries on other film sets.

    He said: "I remember, I was - there's a few. I've bruised a rib on a job - not this one. A freak accident."

    Jack - 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.

    Discussing 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.

    "I knew the door was open for me in a lot of ways that it's just not for a lot of actors.

    "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."

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