'It is really funny to actually be in a position where I can literally say, 'I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV,'' Zachary Quinto tells Newsweek about NBC's 'Brilliant Minds.'
'It is really funny to actually be in a position where I can literally say, 'I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV.'' Zachary Quinto has played doctors before, but he's 'never played a doctor like' the one he plays on NBC's Brilliant Minds . Quinto plays Dr. Oliver Wolf, 'based on a real-life person called Oliver Sacks, who was a world renowned, iconic neurologist and prolific author, complex, interesting, dynamic, beautiful person.
Then on set, we have an incredible team of nurses and medical advisers who are there every day with us so we can have sidebars, if it's a matter of pronunciation, then we can go off in the corner and we'll do like, a bit of a call and repeat. But the trick is that we're playing characters for whom this language is second nature. They know what it is. They don't have to think about it, right? It just rolls off their tongues.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Zachary Quinto probes emotions in 'Brilliant Minds'Sioux City Journal entertainment reporter Bruce Miller says that if you put a bunch of people on an island just about anything can happen..... and, in 'Blink Twice,' it does.
Read more »
Man with a scan: Zachary Quinto solves mysteries of the brain in Brilliant MindsInspired by the life of neurologist Oliver Sacks, 'Brilliant Minds' seeks to put a new twist on the medical procedural.
Read more »
Zachary Quinto steps into some giant-sized doctor's shoes in NBC's 'Brilliant Minds'Zachry Quinto is back on TV on Monday in a medical drama.
Read more »
Zachary Quinto steps into some giant-sized doctor's shoes in NBC's 'Brilliant Minds'Zachry Quinto is back on TV on Monday in a medical drama.
Read more »
Zachary Quinto steps into some giant-sized doctor's shoes in NBC's 'Brilliant Minds'Zachry Quinto is back on TV on Monday in a medical drama. But he’s not portraying any dour, by-the-rules doctor — he’s playing Dr. Oliver Sacks, the famed neurologist, path-breaking researcher and author once called the “poet laureate of medicine.
Read more »
Zachary Quinto steps into some giant-sized doctor's shoes in NBC's 'Brilliant Minds'Zachry Quinto is back on TV on Monday in a medical drama.
Read more »