{"id":2223087,"date":"2026-01-05T17:27:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2223087"},"modified":"2026-01-05T17:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:27:46","slug":"how-spartacus-redefined-sam-heughans-brutal-outlander-scenes-for-graham-mctavish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-spartacus-redefined-sam-heughans-brutal-outlander-scenes-for-graham-mctavish\/","title":{"rendered":"How \u2018Spartacus\u2019 Redefined Sam Heughan\u2019s Brutal \u2018Outlander\u2019 Scenes for Graham McTavish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0574615\/\">Graham McTavish<\/a> is no stranger to onscreen combat. He played Scottish war chief Dougal MacKenzie in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3006802\/\">Outlander<\/a>\u2018s first two seasons, and he faced battles in Middle-earth in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001392\/\">Peter Jackson<\/a>\u2018s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0077687\/\">Hobbit<\/a> trilogy. However, training to play the gladiator trainer, Korris, in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt29921437\/\">Spartacus: House of Ashur<\/a> was \u201cby far the hardest\u201d boot camp yet, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm13106273\/\">McTavish<\/a> tells TV Insider. And his weapons training experience on the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1442449\/\">Spartacus<\/a> spinoff gave him a new understanding of his good friend, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1537825\/\">Sam Heughan<\/a>\u2018s, experience filming <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3006802\/\">Outlander<\/a> Season 1. McTavish uses an authentic bullwhip while training his gladiators in Ashur\u2019s (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1479022\/\">Nick E. Tarabay<\/a>) ludus in the bloody Starz drama. Korris is a retired gladiator who&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham McTavish is no stranger to onscreen combat. He played Scottish war chief Dougal MacKenzie in Outlander\u2018s first two seasons, and he faced battles in Middle-earth in Peter Jackson\u2018s Hobbit trilogy. However, training to play the gladiator trainer, Korris, in Spartacus: House of Ashur was \u201cby far the hardest\u201d boot camp yet, McTavish tells TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2223088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2223087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/How-\u2018Spartacus-Redefined-Sam-Heughans-Brutal-\u2018Outlander-Scenes-for-Graham.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223089,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223087\/revisions\/2223089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}