Heroes star, Zachary Quinto, has spoken about Sylar’s inner turmoil during this series of the hit US TV show. Sylar has recently found out that his mother is actually Angela Petrelli, a revealtion that has affected how he acts in many ways.

Quinto tells the Radio Times: “He is in great conflict within himself and you get to see different shades of his character, some a little less threatening than others, but that darkness and evil that he serves have a great power over him and I don’t know if that power is surmountable.”

He added: “We establish in the first episode of the season that he doesn’t eat brains. He has a different relationship to them – which is not edible!”

Quinto, who has just finished filming the role of Spock in J.J. Abrams’s new Star Trek movie. He joked: “I don’t think my eyebrows factored into the decision to hire me as Sylar, but once I got the job, they played into my characterisation of this man. Spock is a pretty eyebrow-centric character in his own right, too.”