Nick E. Tarabay was in France when he got a text message from veteran showrunner Steven S. DeKnight, the man he spent years working with in the early 2010s on Starz’s Spartacus franchise playing Ashur, a turncoat slave and gladiator that audiences loved to hate.

Ashur had met his end in 2013’s Spartacus: Vengeance , but the character never truly left DeKnight’s mind, which is why he picked up the phone to ask Tarabay a question. “He was like, ‘Nick, what are you doing for the next five to six years?” recalled the actor.

Nick E. Tarabay was in France when he got a text message from veteran showrunner Steven S. DeKnight, the man he spent years working with in the early 2010s on Starz’s Spartacus franchise playing Ashur, a turncoat slave and gladiator that audiences loved to hate

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