Interview with "Spartacus" star Dustin Clare

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By Tom Clift

Australian audiences may recognise Dustin Clare from his Logie-winning role on McLeod’s Daughters, his stints on Underbelly and Satisfaction, or his small part in Fred Schepisi’s Eye of the Storm. But to the rest of the world he’s Gannicus, the long-haired, muscle-bound, sword-wielding gladiator from the hit series, Spartacus.
“I remember the first time I stepped onto one of the sets here and thought, ‘This is a lot bigger than anything I’ve ever worked on!’”
Originally from New South Wales, the 30-year-old actor graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2004. He first came to national attention after scoring the 2007 Silver Logie Award for Most Popular New Male Talent, for his portrayal of swaggering farmhand Riley Ward in the aforementioned McLeod’s Daughters.
Since then he’s traded flannel shirts for loin-cloths and sandals. An epic retelling of the slave uprising that shook the Roman Empire, Spartacus – packed with sex, violence and gratuitous slow motion – has been branded the television equivalent of Zack Snyder’s 300.
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