Showrunner Steven S. DeKnight and leading man Nick E. Tarabay partook in a lively conversation at the London Hotel for The Hollywood Reporter’s first ever ‘Heat Vision Live’ event.
Nick E. Tarabay was in France when he got a text message from veteran showrunner Steven S. DeKnight, the man he spent years working with in the early 2010s on Starz’s Spartacus franchise playing Ashur, a turncoat slave and gladiator that audiences loved to hate.
Ashur had met his end in 2013’s Spartacus: Vengeance, but the character never truly left DeKnight’s mind, which is why he picked up the phone to ask Tarabay a question. “He was like, ‘Nick, what are you doing for the next five to six years?” recalled the actor.
