{"id":10574,"date":"2010-10-25T14:03:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T21:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10574"},"modified":"2010-10-25T14:03:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T21:03:24","slug":"quinto-more-theater-roles-less-personal-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/10\/quinto-more-theater-roles-less-personal-speculation\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinto: More Theater Roles, Less Personal Speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Zachary Quinto<\/strong>, best-known to <em>Star Trek<\/em> fans as the new Spock, and to sci-fi fans as Sylar, has expressed a desire to have theater as well as movie and television roles become part of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Currently appearing as Louis Ironson in <strong>Tony Kushner<\/strong>&#8216;s play <em>Angels in America<\/em>, Quinto admits that this is part of his plan to achieve that goal. &#8220;This is hopefully a declaration of my intention to have theater be a much more significant part of my career from this point forward,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I look at the work that I\u2019ve done so far as an investment to that end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/011309ZQuinto.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10575\" title=\"011309ZQuinto\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/011309ZQuinto.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a>In <em>Angels in America<\/em>, Quinto&#8217;s character Ironson abandons his lover when the man comes down with AIDS. A strong advocate of gay rights himself, Quinto deflects questions as to his own sexuality, preferring that discussion on important gay issues takes the place of speculation about his personal life. &#8220;The fact that these things [gay marriage, &#8216;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8217; and gay bullying\/suicide] are such hot-button issues right now, socially and politically; I would much rather talk about that\u00a0 than who I sleep with,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, &#8216;Let\u2019s talk about something that matters.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having a theater role that addresses concerns near to his heart is important to Quinto. &#8220;To return to the theater is one thing,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But to return to the theater doing a play of this import and resonance, it&#8217;s beyond thrilling.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zachary Quinto, best-known to Star Trek fans as the new Spock, and to sci-fi fans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2401],"tags":[3253,2475],"class_list":["post-10574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xi","tag-angels-in-america","tag-quinto"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10576,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10574\/revisions\/10576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}