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Starz Sends 'Spartacus'' Lawless, Tapert, DeKnight to Comic-Con TV Week

Starz will give San Diego Comic-Con International attendees a first look at its new series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" on July 24.

The network will present a panel with stars Lucy Lawless, Peter Mensah, Andy Whitfield and executive producers Rob Tapert and Steven S. DeKnight.

The panel will also feature the unveiling of an exclusive comic book mini-series inspired by the series with a special Comic-Con cover from Devil's Due Publishing.

The series is slated to premiere in January 2010.

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The following excerpt is from Wizard Magazine June 2009 issue(#212). Wizard published an interview with Ed Brubaker, partly about 'Angel of Death'. Many thanks to Jolie for the transcript

Q - How did the rest of the cast come onboard?

Ed - Well, we wrote the part of Vera for Lucy Lawless just in the hopes that we could get her. The director reached out to her. And I know the director and producer both have some sort of relationship with Doug Jones and had talked to him at the 'Hellboy II' premiere about the idea of him playing the doctor, because they were interested to see if he would want to do something where he didn't have to wear make-up. The answer was yes.

But really, I didn't have a lot of activity in the casting other than the Zoe part we are all in on. They tell me that they didn't even tell Lucy Lawless that was for Zoe's thing, but I'm assuming Lucy Lawless has the internet, too. So she must have known.[Laughs] They didn't want to have her do it as a favor. They wanted her to do it because she thought it was a cool thing to do. And apparently, she had a really great time doing it. She really loved the character, to get to play a battered old hooker which is so different than anything she gets to do.

But what I discovered during this process is that most actors in the world are not working all of the time. They are in-between projects or waiting for production to start. And they will often take a few days or a week out of their life to go work on something if they think it's going to be cool and they like the script. Money isn't always the biggest factor for actors. It's doing something that you think is cool and getting something made. Whic is kind of a cool thing.

Read more about Lucy's role on Angel of Death and view video clips by going to the AUSXIP Lucy Lawless Angel of Death subsite

This Week's Lucy Mentions from the Around The Net:

Esquire Magazine - 25 June 2009

Lucy mention in Orci/Kurtzman interview in Esquire Magazine

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ESQ: You started your careers writing for Xena: Warrior Princess. Who's more intimidating: Megan Fox or Lucy Lawless?

AK: Lucy is taller. [Laughs.] Megan is actually very sweet, and Lucy is also a sweetheart. But it's tough when you meet her for the first time and she's in full regalia looking like she might cut your head off.

RO: Yeah, she's a special effect herself.

Crackle Web Series Heads to Spike
World Screen News - New York,NY,USA
In addition to Bell, the cast includes Lucy Lawless (Xena, Battlestar Galactica), as well as Doug Jones, Vail Bloom, Ted Raimi, Brian Poth, Justin Huen and ...

Crackle Brings Popular Web Series 'Angel of Death' to Spike TV as ...

Fierce! Forbes!

24 Jun 2009 by Brent Hartinger, Editor  
As such, as much as I love Lucy Lawless, I think she'd be the worst Wonder Woman imaginable. She's already played a warrior princess; since comparisons between the portrayals would be inevitable (and infuriating), playing a variation on ...
TheTorchOnline.com - http://thetorchonline.com/

Scanned in an article from the New Zealand Woman's Weekly 10 February 1997 - Big Bonus for Xena. The article followed up on Lucy after her horrific fall whilst filming a skit for the Jay Leno Show that shattered her pelvis when the horse she was riding lost it's footing on the cement.

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XENA STAR TELLS: "My injury made me a megastar"

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BIG BONUS FOR XENA

Kiwi actor Lucy Lawless has scored worldwide publicity as a result of the riding accident - and now she's being mobbed!

"Falling off that horse really put me on the map," explains Lucy. "Before it happened, there were a lot of people out there who had never heard of me or Xena. "The publicity all over the world about my accident changed all that and now a lot more people are watching the show. So, in a way, it was a blessing in disguise."

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The 2005 July NZ Woman's Day had a very brief mention of Lucy when she performed at the 2005 Gay Pride Festival where she sang "Come To Me".

Lucy Lawless shimmied her way through a performance at the Gay Pride concert in LA looking more like Pamela Anderson than the raven-haired Warrior Princess we know and love. A natural blonde, the ex-Xena star has reverted to her golden tresses and has no trouble proving that blondes, especially tousled ones, do have more fun.

Click here to view the larger scan and also see photos, video, wallpapers and read reports from the event.

The June 2007 Issue of the New Zealand Woman's Weekly has a fashion tip for 2007 about vests. Lucy is featured as being fashionable wearing a very nice black vest during the premiere of "The Starter Wife" Los Angeles Premiere  Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, California United States
on 23 May 2007.

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Exclusive First Look: Angel of Death
We've got the box art featuring a kickass Zoe Bell.
by Cindy White

US, June 5, 2009 - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is bringing the digital online series Angel of Death to DVD on July 28. Starring actress and renowned stuntwoman Zoe Bell (Death Proof), Lucy Lawless (Battlestar Galactica), Doug Jones (Hellboy II) and Ted Raimi (Spider-Man 3), the DVD contains an all-new movie version of the series and is packed with exclusive bonus features. It will be available for the MSRP of $24.96.

In the spirit of Grindhouse, Kill Bill and Sin City, Angel of Death was created and written by acclaimed Eisner-award winning comic-book author Ed Brubaker (Captain America, Criminal and Daredevil). The movie reunites actors Bell, Lawless and Raimi, who worked together on the hit television series Xena: Warrior Princess. Bell played Lawless' stunt double throughout the long run of the series.

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Here's a round up of Lucy mentions so far this week from various sites around the net.

Total SciFi.com - 2 June 2009

The 25 Women Who Shook Sci-Fi

The sci-fi and fantasy genres have been marked by many iconic heroines. Some are striking for their leadership and bravery, others for their incredible sexiness, many for both. Following lengthy debate, Total Sci-Fi now reveals the 25 most important SF & fantasy heroines of all time. We've limited ourselves to TV and film - SF and fantasy literature probably warrants a further list all of its own - and in those instances where multiple actresses have portrayed a character, we've written who we believe gave the most definitive performance in brackets. No doubt there are many characters you feel we've left off, so drop us a line at dwscifi@titanemail.com and let us know!

23) XENA (Lucy Lawless, Xena: Warrior Princess)

We first saw Xena as a violent warlord in three episodes of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, before the kick-ass warrior earned her own popular series in which she battled evil in ancient Greece.

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The Torch Online - 2 June 2009

Interview with Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman)

TTO: I'm curious if you're friends with any of the other female action icons: Lindsay Wagner, Charlie's Angels, or even Lucy Lawless who plays Xena? Have you met any of them?

LC: I've met Lucy Lawless, and she couldn't have been nicer. We had a nice conversation. I think how she approached her character, how the show approached her, was great. Lindsay Wagner was a friend of mine a million years ago, I just don't have the opportunity to see her, but whenever I meet a mutual friend, I always send her my best. Same with Jaclyn Smith. I never knew Kate Jackson, but Farrah, we used to all go on the same interviews for the same one part. [laughs]

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MovieWeb - 2 June 2009

Bruce Campbell Talks About Burn Notice (Lucy guest starred on the show as Evelyn: Season 1 Episode 10: False Flag  Airdate: 13 September 2007 (Click here to download video clips and view screencaptures/promo pics from the episode from the AUSXIP Lucy Lawless Burn Notice subsite)

You mentioned a little bit about Tim Matheson coming back, so can you tell us anything about any other guest stars you might be seeing this season?

Bruce Campbell: Oh, boy, guest stars. They come and go. We got Nick Turturro, who was on NYPD Blue, he's playing a weasely criminal character. I'm not so good with rattling all the things off. We're starting to get a good stable of directors, like Tim Matheson is becoming a stable director element. So it would be nice to see him come back. I hope he's in another episode as this guy Larry. He plays this crazy guy, Larry, who, I hope he comes back, because Tim is a really good actor, too. We had Lucy Lawless, I think on our second episode we got Lucy in. That was real fun to do. I got a bunch of friends we're always trying to get in there. They're coming and going. So it's sort of a stay tuned thing, to see who is coming. But the nice thing is when you have a hit show, you can get better actors. No one wants to be on a show with lousy ratings.

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