Jack Quaid stars in Companion and is opening up about his experience filming the Drew Hancock-written and directed thriller.
The actor said in a recent interview that a stunt in the movie gave him the “heebie-jeebies,” and he had to have a stunt double help him with the scene.
“There was this one stunt that is small in the grand history of things I’ve done on screen, but I don’t know why; it just gave me the heebie-jeebies,” Quaid told Entertainment Weekly.
Quaid continued, “She closes a car door on my hand, and it was the one stunt where I was like, ‘I don’t know… It was perfectly safe — they had a stopper there in case anything went wrong. But it was the one time I was like, ‘Can we please just have a stunt double do it?’”
Companion follows Quaid’s Josh and girlfriend Iris, played by Sophie Thatcher, as they go on a weekend getaway to a remote cabin, and she finds out that she is a robot programmed by her boyfriend.
Quaid admits that throughout his career, he’s “done crazier things,” but something about this particular scene triggered a traumatic experience from the past.
“Something about that, I couldn’t do it,” he said. “I think it’s [because] I’ve had a door closed on my hand before, and it just brought up old memories, and I’m like, ‘I don’t know if I can do this.’ For some reason, that’s where I drew my line. I don’t know why, but that was it.”
Companion also stars Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harve Guillén, and Rupert Friend.
