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'NOS4A2': Watch Zachary Quinto Transform into Evil, Immortal Charlie Manx [VIDEO]

AMC is offering viewers anxiously awaiting to get their eyeballs around supernatural fantasy-horror adaptation of Joe Hill's bestselling novel NOS4A2 a behind-the-scenes look at the Ashleigh Cummings Zachary Quinto-starrer ahead of its June 2nd premiere. With Emmy-nominee Kari Skogland (The Handmaid's Tale) on board to direct the first two episodes of the 10-episode series, here's a look at how Quinto made the transformation into evil, immortal Charlie Manx.

'NOS4A2': Watch Zachary Quinto Transform into Evil, Immortal Charlie Manx [VIDEO]
BTS, Zachary Quinto as Charlie Manx – NOS4A2 – Photo Credit: Courtesy of AMC
'NOS4A2': Watch Zachary Quinto Transform into Evil, Immortal Charlie Manx [VIDEO]
BTS, Zachary Quinto as Charlie Manx – NOS4A2 – Photo Credit: Courtesy of AMC

The supernatural horror series NOS4A2, based on Hill's bestselling novel of the same name, tells the story of Charlie Manx, a seductive immortal who feeds off the souls of children then deposits what remains of them into "Christmasland" – an icy, twisted Christmas village of Manx's imagination where every day is Christmas Day and unhappiness is against the law. Manx finds his whole world threatened when a young woman in New England discovers she has a dangerous gift.

'NOS4A2': Watch Zachary Quinto Transform into Evil, Immortal Charlie Manx [VIDEO]
Zachary Quinto as Charlie Manx – NOS4A2 _ Season 1, Episode 1 – Photo Credit: Dana Starbard/AMC

Quinto's Charlie Manx is a seductive immortal who feeds off the souls of children, then deposits what remains of them into Christmasland – an icy, twisted Christmas village of Manx's imagination where every day is Christmas Day and unhappiness is against the law. Manx finds his whole world threatened when a young woman in New England (Cummings) discovers she has a dangerous gift.

'NOS4A2': Watch Zachary Quinto Transform into Evil, Immortal Charlie Manx [VIDEO]
Ashleigh Cummings as Vic McQueen, Darby Camp as Haley Smith – NOS4A2 _ Season 1, Episode 2 – Photo Credit: Dana Starbard/AMC

Cummings' Vic McQueen is a young, working-class artist whose creativity awakens a supernatural ability to track Manx (Quinto). What Vic lacks in social confidence, she makes up for in courage, humor, and tough-as-nails grit. She strives to defeat Manx and rescue his victims without losing her mind or falling victim to him herself.

NOS4A2" introduces Vic McQueen (Ashleigh Cummings), a gifted young woman who discovers she has a supernatural ability to find lost things. This ability puts her on a collision course with the evil and immortal Charlie Manx (Quinto). Manx is a supernatural villain who feeds off the souls of children then deposits what remains of them into Christmasland – a twisted place of Manx's imagination where every day is Christmas Day and unhappiness is against the law. Vic strives to defeat Manx and rescue his victims – without losing her mind or falling victim to him herself.

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Olafur Darri Olafsson as Bing Partridge – NOS4A2 _ Season 1, Episode 2 – Photo Credit: Dana Starbard/AMC

Along with Quinto and Cummings, NOS4A2 also stars Olafur Darri Olafsson (Lady Dynamite) as Bing Partridge, Virginia Kull (The Looming Tower) as Linda McQueen, Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Punisher) as Chris McQueen, Jahkara Smith (aka Sailor J) as Maggie Leigh, and Ashley Romans (Shameless) as Det. Tabitha Hutter. Produced by AMC Studios in association with Tornante Television, NOS4A2 is executive produced by Hill, Tornante Television's  Lauren Corrao, and series creator/showrunner Jami O'Brien (Fear The Walking Dead, Hell On Wheels).

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Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Chris McQueen, Jamie Neumann as Tiffany Jones – NOS4A2 _ Season 1, Episode 5 – Photo Credit: Zach Dilgard/AMC

AMC's NOS4A2 premieres Sunday, June 2, at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT – following the fifth season premiere of Fear the Walking Dead.


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Ray FlookAbout Ray Flook

Serving as Television Editor since 2018, Ray began five years earlier as a contributing writer/photographer before being brought onto the core BC team in 2017.
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