The Boys star Jack Quaid is fans' top pick to play Max Payne after his new action movie, but the actor admits he's never played the games

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Jack Quaid may be best known for landing himself in sticky situations as Hughie in The Boys, but fans now w💟ant him to play another major character. Following his performance in action movie Novocaine, plenty of gamers have been pointing out his uncanny resemblaꦓnce to Max Payne.

The neo-noir shooter game follows New York City police detective turned vigilante Paꦦyne who sets himself on a mission of revenge aft♛er his family were murdered by drug addicts. There's no movie currently in the making but there was a loose 2008 adaptation starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis, and fans are hoping a reboot could be on the cards.

Quaid shares some physical resemblance with the character and fans have been pulling shots of his new movie Novocaine, where he ♊plays a bank worker who can't feel pain who goes on an unlikely rescue mission, tꦐo compare the two.

"Ok so….just sayin’ it right here, Jack Quaid could legit be Max Payne," , while : "If Novocaine is the closest I’ll get to a fun Max Payne mov♕ie I ever get I’ll die happy. Great job." A : "I cannot be the only one who saw Jack Quaid in the Novocaine trailer and saw a young Max Payne (Sam Lake) right away?"

The actor himself has even gotten a whiff of the fan casting too, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:sharing in a recent Reddit AMA that he can see the resemblance. "I've seen people say that I look like Max Payne, and when I've looked at the box art, even I did a double-take," he wrote.𒀰 "I love Rockstar's games, but unfortunately I've nev𒅌er played that one – it's next on the list, for sure."

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