NOS4A2’s Zachary Quinto, Ashleigh Cummings & Jami O’Brien

TV Drama caught up with NOS4A2 stars Zachary Quinto and Ashleigh Cummings and showrunner Jami O’Brien to talk about the new series, which launched on AMC in the U.S. last weekend.

Quinto was in no rush to play another notorious villain on television (his breakout role was as Sylar on Heroes, and he went on to embody the terrifying Dr. Oliver Thredson on American Horror Story: Asylum). But the scripts, and auspices, of AMC’s NOS4A2 convinced him to take on another fear-inducing character, Charlie Manx, who kidnaps children and takes them to a place called Christmasland. Based on the book of the same name by Joe Hill, the horror series was adapted for television by O’Brien and stars Cummings as Vic McQueen, a special teen who sets out to stop Manx.