Graham McTavish is no stranger to onscreen combat. He played Scottish war chief Dougal MacKenzie in Outlander‘s first two seasons, and he faced battles in Middle-earth in Peter Jackson‘s Hobbit trilogy. However, training to play the gladiator trainer, Korris, in Spartacus: House of Ashur was “by far the hardest” boot camp yet, McTavish tells TV Insider. And his weapons training experience on the Spartacus spinoff gave him a new understanding of his good friend, Sam Heughan‘s, experience filming Outlander Season 1. McTavish uses an authentic bullwhip while training his gladiators in Ashur’s (Nick E. Tarabay) ludus in the bloody Starz drama. Korris is a retired gladiator who…
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