The star of 'The Boys' and 'Companion' takes an '80s-style hero turn in his new action flick, where he plays a man who can't feel pain. "It’s not about how much I can kick a**," he says. "It’s about how much my a** can get kicked.

Quaid's leading role in Novocaine feels like a natural continuation of these genre-bent everymen. He plays Nathan Caine, a mild-mannered assistant bank manager who has congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA), a genetic disorder that impacts his nervous system to the point that he can't feel pain or temperature.