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'Spartacus: Blood and Sand': Q&A with John Hannah

'Spartacus: Blood and Sand': Q&A with John Hannah


When Spartacus: Blood and Sand first hit our screens, it was clear we were dealing with a different kind of show! The series revels in gore, sex and drama and it became something of a cult hit. It's a while until new episodes will hit our screens, but if you need your gladiator fix in the meantime you'll be pleased to hear that the season one DVD is out on Monday! To celebrate, we called up cast member John Hannah to chat about the show, new Spartacus Liam McIntyre and those sex scenes! There are some season one spoilers but they're marked, so read on...


Obviously the DVD's coming out on Monday - for people who haven't seen Spartacus: Blood and Sand, tell us what it's about.
"It's a kind of epic soap structured around the facts of Spartacus that we know. There are little facts that we know, little bullet points along the way that we do know about Spartacus - the man, the myth. And what they've done is created a little imagined show about the world that he might have lived in and what he might have gone through on his journey."

SPARTACUS: BLOOD AND SAND

Spartacus: Blood and Sand... And Sex and Intrigue and Decapitations



If there was ever an era that was perfect to be made into a pay-cable TV series, it's ancient Rome. Courtly intrigue, coupled with the excesses that the Romans indulged in -- glorious conquest, opulent wealth, killing for entertainment, sex as a distraction from boredom -- form the perfect recipe for mass entertainment. Why else do you think Gladiator won an Academy Award? The HBO series Rome tried to capture that glory, and succeeded; unfortunately, it was too expensive to last more than two seasons. Starz is following a different route, however -- they're emulating the film 300, which re-created ancient Greece on a budget by using computers and green screens. There are sets in Spartacus, of course, but they're far from the massive exteriors of Rome, and most of their characters (like the Spartans in 300), require very little costuming. I don't know what budgetary category "washboard abs" falls under (catering?), but it ain't costumes.

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