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‘She Was Gonna Kill’: Lucy Lawless Recalls Orgy Scene Extra On Spartacus Losing It After Someone Stepped On Her Tail

January 27, 2025 - Movies


Before Game of Thrones solidified itself as cable TV’s central hub for rampant nudity and random orgies — also well before HBO reversed its stance on flagrant nudity — Starz’s various seasons of Spartacus proudly wore that crown, which was the only thing it was wearing. Series star Lucy Lawless, whose husband Rob Tapert was one of its producers, was among the various stars whose character was occasionally disrobed and in the vicinity of sexualized gatherings, which brings us to her whopper of a BTS anecdote involving background actors.

Lawless portrayed the mischievous Lucretia, the not-entirely loyal wife and eventual widow of John Hannah’s Batiatus across Season 1 (Blood and Sand), the prequelized second season (Gods of the Arena), and the third arc (Vengeance). Among other highlights of her career, she talked about her time on the historical epic while appearing on the Inside of You podcast with host Michael Rosenbaum. After calling the process of filming nude scenes “pretty yucky,” she pointed out that Spartacus cast highly knowledgeable extras for its orgy scenes, saying:

We would have all these extras, and they would get people from what turns out to be the porn capital of New Zealand. So, we would hire all these people who habitually do such things and get them to choreograph their own scenes. Say it’s an orgy scene, right? We would have these young women come in, and we would dress them up in fabulous costumes like you’ve got a long peacock tail, and it’s made with real peacock feathers, etc. Or a tiger or something or other. They looked amazing. But when you have long dresses and things, you’re always stepping on somebody else’s tail.


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