There’s a new interview online, made by The Vanguard, in which Zach and Chris told a little about their experciences with the film.

Do you guys feel like there was a lot of pressure stepping into the shoes of James T. Kirk and Spock?
Zachary Quinto, actor: I didn’t really feel that pressure because Leonard was involved actually and was so supportive of me from the beginning and because I had such faith and trust in J.J. and the creative team behind the movie. I sort of just chose to focus more on — on my task at hand, which was doing my work — which was really the only thing that’s in my control. So I didn’t really and I still don’t really concern myself with that stuff because I don’t really have any control over it. So it doesn’t really serve me personally or creatively.

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Zach is featured in the “20Q” section of May’s PlayBoy magazine. I added a little excerpt of the interview, the full one are on the way. Thanks Jared Albert at Playboy for the heads up, also thatjamiegirl for the pictures. This issue is available on newsstands and online at www.playboydigital.com today, April 17).
Update: Thanks to milkandmolasses, the actual interview is now available to read!

“I was in New York recently, in the audience at a few Broadway shows, and I really wanted to bust out the nerve pinch on some people around me, just to put them to sleep and shut them up,” admits Zachary Quinto on Spock’s ability to deploy the neck nerve pinch. “As an actor who comes from the theater, I realized I might have inflated ideas of who we do theater for. The disregard brought my delusions of grandeur crashing down. I take theater seriously, and I was fascinated and repulsed at people’s casual, cavalier attitudes and behaviors in the audience. Opening candy packages, screaming and talking in the middle of the show—it was really alarming. I was galled by the nerve.”
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OF-the previous star trek franchises and all its different arms have very involved fan bases with the conventions and things like that. How do you guys feel personally about part of it and what expectations do you have of that going onto the future.

ZQ-I have actually done a couple of conventions and it a natural progression because there is conventions that go on the work I’ve done with Heroes in the states. I think I’ve done 3 convention and 2 of them with Leonard and for me that was great. People were cool. It was really fun to have him by my side which was all the more enjoyable. My goal as an actor is to really diversify my career now. This and heroes have put me in a position to really be able to do some other stuff as well. But I am sure that over the years we’ll hang out and do some conventions Chris.

CP- Sure thing Zach…yeah I feel that the closest I have come is wonder con in San Francisco. maybe 3 or 4 weeks ago and….

ZQ- Nothing like a Star Trek convention.

CP-Yeah …I am absolutely willing to do it and I think this again in talking about the community of the star trek fans. It’s a unique experience this world and all of us realize how important it is to continue that connection and foster that relationship and grow a hopefully new generation of fans but like Zach I am an actor who craves diversity in as mush as I love playing James Kirk I am sure I’ll love playing and exploring different roles and characters as well.

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IT’S Thursday afternoon, July 26, 2007, at San Diego’s Comic Con, the largest comic and popular arts convention in the world.

J.J. Abrams, the director and producer of the latest Star Trek movie, leans into the microphone. “Ladies and gentlemen [dramatic pause], Zachary Quinto is Spock.”

Quinto enters, to whoops, cheers, applause and camera flashes, his face carefully expressionless, save for the merest hint of a smile. He half-raises his right hand. This will be his first movie role. He is, he notes later, an eight-year overnight success story. He turned 30 the previous month.

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Tribute.ca posted a new interview with Star Trek star Zachary Quinto.

B: Will we get to see more of you as Spock in other Star Trek films? Are you signed to sequels if this one takes off?
Z: Yeah, I’m contracted for more.

B: So you won’t mind putting those infamous ears back on?
Z: ( laughs) No, the ears are cool; shaving the eyebrows is another story, ha ha. Yeah, right now for me the experience is all about this first movie and going through the process of promoting it all over the world, sharing it with people and seeing what else is generated from this experience. Other movies will come into place when they’re meant to, when they’re able to. If that happens I’ll be excited about that as well.

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The Vulcan race are emotionless creatures, so it was understandable that when two met in a lift, nothing was said.

The awkward encounter was the first time legendary Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy had met Zachary Quinto, the actor who was to play his most famous character, Spock, in the new movie version of the television show.

If Zachary, who is currently on our screens playing serial killer Sylar in Heroes, was hoping to get some words of wisdom from the older actor, he would be disappointed. Read more…

You don’t have to be Mr. Spock to know that having a coat made for wet weather is highly logical. Zachary Quinto of the new ‘Star Trek’ movie proves the right one can help you fend off the elements like a trouper.

Zachary Quinto, it appears, was uniquely qualified to play Spock in May’s rejiggered Star Trek. For one thing, the 31-year-old actor has a built-in cult following, thanks to his role as the brain-eater on NBC’s Heroes. But more important: Have you seen those eyebrows? When Quinto heard that J. J. Abrams was rekindling the cherished fanboy franchise, he told his hometown newspaper he wanted the role. “Then that article got syndicated…,” says Quinto. Engage! (To borrow a phrase.) In a few months’ time, the guy was shaving and sculpting his brows to Spock-like spears, and rehearsing scenes with Winona Ryder, who, through the miracle of makeup, plays his mother. (“She’s, like, five years older than me.”) So are there any other roles he’d like to land through the press? “I really want to go on SNL.” Noted. And you’re welcome.

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