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.
FILE - Actor Zachary Quinto poses for a portrait on Friday, March 30, 2018, in Los Angeles. This image released by NBC shows Zachary Quinto as Dr. Oliver Wolf in a scene from “Brilliant Minds.” This image released by NBC shows Zachary Quinto as Dr. Oliver Wolf in a scene from “Brilliant Minds.” FILE - Actor Zachary Quinto poses for a portrait on Friday, March 30, 2018, in Los Angeles. FILE - Actor Zachary Quinto poses for a portrait on Friday, March 30, 2018, in Los Angeles.
“He was someone who was tirelessly committed to the dignity of the human experience. And so I feel really grateful to be able to tell his story and to continue his legacy in a way that I hope our show is able to do,” says Quinto.“Brilliant Minds” takes Sack’s personality — a motorcycle-riding, fern-loving advocate for mental health who died in 2015 at 82 — and puts him in the present day, where the creators theorize he would have no idea who Taylor Swift is or own a cell phone.
Aside from the weekly emergencies, there is also a longer, series-long narrative exploring Sack’s personal life and his fraught relationship with his doctor parents, especially his late father, who had mental illness. “I always say if people watch our show and they see themselves and the stories that we’re telling, then we’re doing our job,” says Quinto.This isn’t the first time Sacks has been portrayed. His 1973 book, “Awakenings,” about hospital patients who’d spent decades in a kind of frozen state until he tried a new treatment, led to a 1990 movie in which Sacks was played byThe real Sacks lived in self-imposed celibacy for more than three decades, only coming out late in life.
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