Zachary Quinto Navigates the Celebrity Activism Minefield While Promoting ‘NOS4A2’
It is an unspeakably awkward time to be promoting a TV show.
On the one hand, hundreds of people work hard on any given series. That work deserves to be recognized and publicized, so that audiences actually watch the damn thing and those people can stay employed.
At the same time, how can an actor justifiably giggle through stories about backstage shenanigans and what it’s like putting on prosthetic makeup to play a 135-year-old vampire when there are pressing, life-or-death issues in the world that demand the media space that they might be taking up?