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"    Photo: Getty Images   Zachary Quinto is what one might call a quadruple threat. He is a movie star (catch him as Spock in the Star Trek movies), theatre actor (he starred in Angels in America in 2010), TV star (as Sylar on Heroes), and a producer (his production company made Margin Call, which won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature).  \u2028 The Pittsburgh-born actor returns to the small screen for the second season of American Horror Story, premiering on FX tonight. Set in a haunted house in LA, the hair-raising series, created by Ryan Murphy, acquired a fanatical following during its first season. For the second round, some of the original cast is back but playing different characters in a new setting. Quinto chatted with ELLE.com about his latest role as psychiatrist Dr. Thredson, and revealed that even he finds the series utterly terrifying.    Name: Zachary Quinto Provence: Los Angeles Relationship status: &amp;quot;Spoken for&amp;quot; On seeing the season two premiere of American Horror Story: Asylum this past weekend: &amp;quot;It was so cool and exciting, first of all, because I&amp;#039;m not in the first episode. So I didn&amp;#039;t have anything to worry about in terms of seeing myself, which can always be a challenge for an actor. Instead, I got to enjoy everyone else&amp;#039;s work. It was so scary and so exciting. I think Jessica [Lange] is giving an incredible performance.  \u2028 On shaking off a particularly intense or dark scene: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not super-duper method-y all the time. I take time alone if I have to do something really intense or challenging. Sometimes I do take it home with me and feel weird for a few hours until I go to bed, but usually by the next morning I feel okay. I don&amp;#039;t blur the line between my life and my reality with my responsibilities and my work. I understand there&amp;#039;s a way to engage it and then go home. You better be able to do that or you&amp;#039;re [in trouble].&amp;quot; On his character Dr. Oliver Thredson:  &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s very outspoken and precise about his point of view. When he comes to Briarcliff, he&amp;#039;s there for a specific task: to evaluate one of the patients. In the process of doing that, he begins to see there are a lot of aspects of this place that are unsettling, unethical, and inappropriate. He begins to shine a bit of light on that, which doesn&amp;#039;t win him any points with Sister Jude [Jessica Lange]. &amp;quot; On his first steps in the biz:  &amp;quot;I started performing on stage when I was a kid so my lineage always goes back to that. I moved to LA as soon as I graduated from college. But in a lot of ways, it was only so I could move back to New York. I recognized that TV and film actors populate so much of New York theater. It&amp;#039;s so commercially driven.&amp;quot;  On bringing his pets to Boston for his next gig as Tom in The Glass Menagerie at A.R.T. in Cambridge, M.A. (runs February\u2013March):  &amp;quot;I have to figure out the animal situation. I have two dogs and a cat. I never take the big dog on a plane, unless he is in the cabin with me. I just can&amp;#039;t put him on a plane in a cage; I just can&amp;#039;t do it. He&amp;#039;s almost 10 years old. I&amp;#039;m exploring ways, but I worry about him because he&amp;#039;s used to 75-degree weather, and it&amp;#039;s not going to be 75 degrees in Boston in February.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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