Why “Great Balls of Fire” haunted Jack Quaid’s childhood
The actor of The Boys says: ‘The soundtrack of my childhood is Dennis Quaid yelling in the distance:’ You Shake My Nerves and You Rattle My Brain ‘. ”
Being a star child is also living with the roles of your parents.
Jack QuaidStar of the series The Boysis the son of Meg Ryan And Dennis Quaid. When he was born in 1992, his parents were at the top of their career. They met on sets, filming in particular together Inner adventure (1988). And their filmography shares an improbable tube: the title rock’n’roll “Great Balls of Fire” from 1957, which became theIn involuntary soundtrack of his childhood.
During a podcast, Jack Quaid tells laughing:
“My life was a nightmare! I just wanted to say a word about ‘Great Balls of Fire’ … It is actually a song that means a lot for me. I do not know if my parents have already said: ‘Here, this song is in two of our films’, but it is! And I was alive at that time, and suddenly, I heard a lot, a lot during my childhood. I was in the next room to play Crash Bandicoot … “
Because Great Balls of Fireit is obviously the title and the tube of the biopic of 1989, devoted to the singer and pianist Jerry lewisin which Dennis Quaid embodies the legendary musician.
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But it is also one of the iconic pieces of Top Gun (1986), symbolizing the happy times of Maverick and Goose. Anthony Edwards gets to the piano, Tom Cruise joined him and then Meg Ryan (who plays his wife in the film).
More than a romantic coincidence for Dennis Quaid And Meg Ryanthe title has lulled Jack’s youth outright, however born after the two films:
“My father had a piano in my parents’ room. He kept playing ‘Great Balls of Fire’, again and again, because he had learned it for the film. So, the soundtrack of my childhood was Dennis Quaid yelling in the distance: ‘You Shake My Nerves and You Rattle My Brain’.”
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Because Dennis Quaid Much worked to embody Jerry Lee Lewis, to the point of becoming a good musician. He learned to play the piano and the guitar to his son. And Jack even says he baptized his father’s group: “He had a group, and one day he said to me: ‘Jack, quickly, finds a name for our group.’ I was 8 years old, I was fully on the sharks, so I said: ‘The Sharks’. “
It remains to be seen if Jack Quaid know how to play Great Balls of Fire On the piano and if he will complete the loop by interpreting it one day in a film. And why not the final season of The Boys?
