“Brilliant Minds” Star Zachary Quinto 

Air Date: Monday, December 2^nd

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Zachary Quinto & Drew on Time Management & His New Play with Shailene Woodley

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Drew: Do you have any time management issues? Do you get to places on time?

Zachary: To me, five minutes early is on time, on time is late and late is unacceptable. But I was late for, like, I was, I'm rehearsing a play right now.

Drew: With Shailene Woodley.

Zachary: I was just with her right before I came here. And she has never done a play before.

And this is her first play and to watch how she has immersed herself in this experience so seamlessly and so generously and curiously. And I just, I really love her. And anyway, I was late today and I hate being late, but I, you know, by five minutes it's like I have the dogs in the morning, I've got my routine. I gotta get out of the house. I gotta get to the train. And so sometimes, you know, my time management is like, I wake up with the best intentions and then the morning just gets a little bit away. But I, I really try never to be more than seven minutes late for anything.

Drew: And, yeah, I'm on a time management kick right now.

Zachary: What does that look like for you? But, you know, I don't have kids. So that makes time management a lot easier.

Drew: It does, it does because this morning we're always like, three minutes late to school. I'm so sorry. You all know that those affected understand.  And we wake up at six thirty to be at school by eight o'clock. So that's an hour and a half. And it's a struggle. It's really hard.

They, they wanna eat something at the last second. I'm like, how are we not doing this in 90 minutes? I've got alarms set everywhere. It's hard.

Zachary: I understand. I mean, I couldn't imagine, the, the variable of kids in the routine.

Drew: So I didn't have kids my whole life and I've had this issue my whole life, but I'm, I'm working on it.

Zachary on Playing First Openly Gay Lead Character in Medical Procedure Network Show and How He’s Honoring the Person His Character is Based On

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Drew: There is a show that I've been watching, ‘Brilliant Minds’ that you're in now and this is,

I didn't know this while I was watching it. But is it true that it is the first openly gay character to lead a network show in the medical procedural?

Zachary: Yeah, I mean, it's the first time that a lead doctor on a medical drama on a prime time network show. Yeah, I, I think the thing for me that is so significant about that is that it's not significant at all. Actually, it's not significant to the character. It's an aspect of who the character is, but that they've been able to and NBC was really open to and invested in this story and the value of this story in our contemporary culture and, and the conversations that are happening today in the society. That's the thing that means so much to me is that, you know, the role that I play is actually based on a real life person, Doctor Oliver Sacks, who lived and worked primarily in the mid 20th century and who was a gay man himself and who was celibate for 35 years of his life. And when I found that out, I was like, why if you're not somehow called to the clergy or, you know, living a life that, that restricts that, why would you ever make a choice like that? And then the more I learned about him and the more I read about him and the more that I observed why someone would make that decision, it became clear to me that it was because he didn't feel he could be authentically himself and be afforded the same opportunities in his field of medicine that he knew he was designed to change the field of medicine, which he did. And I think he, the tragedy of his life was that he felt like if he brought that part of himself into his work, he would have been denied those opportunities. And so for me to be in this situation now, a generation later, and to be the, you know, an openly gay man who's leading this show and who's telling this story. It's, it's such a, it's to me, it's such an opportunity to honor the original man himself, Oliver Sacks. And to say, you know, how grateful I am that I don't have to cut that part of myself off in order to in, in order to enjoy a life of fulfillment and success.