Inside the ‘Spartacus: House of Ashur’ Battle for Glory (Video)

In the first 10 minutes of Spartacus: House of Ashur, Starz’s sexy, gory resurrection of the epic historical franchise, cunning gladiator and former slave Ashur (Nick E. Tarabay) is freed from death in the gloomy underworld, awakens with no memory of his demise, and brutally slaughters a man twice his size. It’s an assault on the senses, in a good way, and the chariot-race pace never slows. “It’s a blessing to come back to this role. It was one of the most delicious I’ve done,” says Tarabay, who played the fighter in three previous iterations from showrunner and writer Steven S. DeKnight. In the 2012 finale of the series Spartacus: Vengeance,…