-Xena The Warrior Princess is hitting their 30 year anniversary next month and ahead of that, EW sat down with cast and producers to look back on how the show became an icon, a gay icon at that.

-Xena wasn't meant to be a spin-off, it just happened by chance. Vanishing Sun was airing alongside Hercules and got canceled. Due to this and the studio controlling the 2hr block in which it aired, they wanted another show to take its place. They saw a very rough cut of the Xena episode and wanted to rip themselves off before someone else did. Rob wanted to do a female series and was inspired by Hong Kong movies that had female villains finding redemption.

-The show got an automatic 22 episode pick up which was very rare. The studio wanted to cast someone who was already working with them and so

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