USA Today Talks to the New Spock

Published: August 20, 2007, 4:01 pm

Tags: cinematical, film, j j abrams, leonard nimoy, movie, spock, star trek, vulcan salute, zach quinto, zachary quinto

Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Paramount, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and SequelsLooks like Zachary Quinto can still only do the left-handed Vulcan salute. And unfortunately there's no mention of his progress on the more appropriate right-handed method in a new USA Today profile on the actor. Quinto, who will be playing the young Spock in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, had spoken to Entertainment Weekly last month about the salute, admitting he could only do it on his left hand. To get in shape for the movie, he was wearing rubber bands on his right hand and doing special finger exercises. However, the fact that he posed for USA Today's photo with the left-handed salute isn't a good sign. Another un-Spock-like trait Quinto reveals is emotion. The newspaper claims the actor has found a father figure in Leonard Nimoy, who fills in for Quinto's own dad, who died 23 years ago. Of course, the actor who plays Spock doesn't have to be emotionless, but I always felt like Nimoy was more logical

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