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London, May 27 – Four Weddings and a Funeral star John Hannah will be seen in a new series ‘Spartacus’ – which is being called the “most explicit” ever made.

The series is about a gladiator who leads an uprising against the Romans.

The star had to cancel a visit from his wife and kids – as he was filming with naked slave girls. The Scot told how actress wife Joanna Roth, 45, and twins Astrid and Gabriel, six, were set to visit him during filming of a bath scene on the Us-made hit.

“We were filming this sequence where there is a party and the gladiator is.

The actor, who stars in Spartacus, 'the most explicit, violent series' ever made, says his only concern was the language

Three minutes into my interview with actor John Hannah, and he is crouching in front of me – half-hovering, half- kneeling – mimicking a sex act. Actually, he is mimicking the mimicking of a sex act. I'm trying to look at him head on, without laughing nervously or grimacing, but my hands keep rising, involuntarily, to cover my eyes.

Hannah's mime is not entirely inappropriate. Actually, in any other circumstance, it would be utterly, bizarrely inappropriate – but in discussing his new TV drama, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, it's pretty much par for the course. The show arrives on Bravo later this month, amid a fanfare of hype and controversy – it was originally commissioned and shown by the Us cable network Starz, and has been called "the most explicit, violent series" ever made.