‘Brilliant Minds’ Star Zachary Quinto on Hopes for ‘Star Trek 4,’ Being in Therapy for 20 Years and Campaigning for Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Zachary Quinto has played “a lot of dark characters” in his career. So when he was offered the starring role in “Brilliant Minds” he jumped at it because the series “really comes from a place of light.” In the NBC medical drama, he plays Dr.
Oliver Wolf, an eccentric neurologist treating patients with rare mental health conditions at a Bronx hospital. It is inspired by the late Dr.
Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and writer portrayed by Robin Williams in 1990’s “Awakenings.” “I think it’s so important, now more than ever, for people to be looking toward and leaning into the light.
Because I think we’re really seeing in ways that we haven’t yet even been able to completely comprehend that what we’re really in the middle of is this battle between light and dark, expanded consciousness and limited consciousness, seeing the idea of evolution and what’s possible — as opposed to holding on to old constructs, old paradigms and past ideas of how things should be in the binary way of yes, no, right, wrong, black, white,” Quinto says on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “The reality is that as a human race, as a civilization, we don’t have the luxury of existing within those constructs any longer.
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