Star Trek Icon Had His Breakout (And Horrifying) Role Much Earlier Than You Thought
Before coming back as a superhero, the actor had some experience as a supervillain.
Summary:
- Zachary Quinto may be quite famous thanks to his Star Trek ’s character, but not everyone knows about his breakout role back in the 2000s.
- The character that Quinto got to play showed the actor’s capability to portray, apart from superheroes, a relentless and power-hungry supervillain.
- Quinto continued his path as an actor by landing “heroic” roles like Spock in Star Trek and Robot in Invincible.
Zachary Quinto is now a well-known name to those who have been following a Star Trek reboot with a celebrity-packed cast that also includes Chris Pine, Winona Ryder, Zoe Saldana, and Anton Yelchin. But it comes as just few fans’s knowledge that the actor initially was far from playing a hero — instead he portrayed a very much of a villain.
From 2006 to 2010, Quinto was a part of the show called Heroes — the series was primarily focused on the stories of ordinary people discovering their supernatural abilities that will help them in the fight for a better future.
The actor got to play Sylar, a character whose mother’s constantly repeated assertions made him believe that he was special — but in a bad way. Though a superhero’s life seems luring to Sylar who has been living an ordinary life, he still chooses the dark side and becomes a serial killer who strives for stealing other superhumans’ powers.
Here Zachary Quinto delivered a truly mind-boggling and sometimes even disturbing performance as a monster who’s crashing down all the obstacles (whether those are humans or not) to get to be the almighty supervillain — and with all this going on he never gets a tiniest sense of regret.
Later on Quinto’s strong performance in Heroes has for sure won him his most prominent heroic roles in the science fiction film Star Trek and then in the animated superhero series Invincible.
The former depicts the actor as the franchise’s famous character Spock and the latter gave Quinto an opportunity to voice Robot who later gets to be the head of the Guardians of the Globe.