Blended image of Zachary Quinto on a motorcycle and staring ahead in Brilliant Minds
NBC's Brilliant Minds premiered on September 23 with new episodes airing weekly on Mondays. The show is inspired by real-life physician, Oliver Sacks, and sees Zachary Quinto play a neurologist who has a condition called prosopagnosia, also known as facial blindness. After being fired from his previous job, Oliver Wolf takes his long-time friend up on her offer to work at Bronx General Hospital.
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Zachary Quinto: Pretty much every aspect of the character that I play is lifted directly from the life of Oliver Sacks. Oliver Sacks rode motorcycles. Oliver Wolf rides motorcycles. Oliver Sacks was a gay man. Oliver Wolf is a gay man. Oliver Sacks had prosopagnosia—face blindness. Oliver Wolf has prosopagnosia—face blindness. Oliver Sacks had a very complicated relationship with his mother.
Zachary Quinto: In the first episode of the show, they talk a lot about—I think a lot of people would consider the condition of prosopagnosia a real hindrance, a real obstacle, a real challenge. But I think that the way Oliver Wolf comes to see it is as a gift, as an opportunity to adapt and to evolve. And so many of the cases that we examine on Brilliant Minds are cases for which there really is no fix.
Zachary Quinto: Again, the relationship between Carol Pierce and Oliver Wolf on Brilliant Minds is inspired by the real-life relationship between Dr. Carol E. Burnett and Oliver Sacks. They were students together, they were colleagues, Carol E. Burnett was the first African American woman to graduate from the Einstein School of Medicine.
Zachary Quinto: Yeah, everybody adapts to everybody on this show. And initially, Wolf is very resistant to the idea of being any kind of teacher or authority figure. I don't think he wants to deal with the questions and the administrative aspects of that role. I think what he wants to do is focus on his patients and only his patients.
But I feel like Jaden's relationship to that story and the other actors who are involved in the flashbacks, their relationships to that part of the story really filtered through Michael Grassi, through our showrunner, and so I think it was more important for him to be overseeing that than for me to be involved in them. I wanted Jayden to have his own experience of the role. He's telling stories from a different perspective and a different time in Wolf's life.
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