This season on Spartacus: Vengeance, the character of Mira has grown into a much larger role for Katrina Law. The Jersey Girl spent quite a lot of time training with the boys very early on in shooting, leaving her as the sole female in the gladiator camp.
But don't feel bad for her. Ask me what I wouldn't do to spend all that time with men like Liam McIntyre, Manu Bennett, Peter Mensah and of course Dustin Clare!
I spoke with Katrina this week about the uncertainty of her characters relationship with Spartacus, her relationship with the females in the rebel camp, and how the dynamic shifts between Crixus and Spartacus when our boy Gannicus makes his triumphant return!
In talking with her about the evolution of Mira's relationship with Spartacus, she gave us a little insight as to what is currently going on in her head and at what moment she got a reality check.
I think Mira's foundation got rocked a little bit by Chadara (Bonnie Sveen) in episode two. I think she was pretty solid [up until then], she thought things were going a certain way before Chadara. I think coming into season two, she was pretty sure things were going a very specific way, the way she wanted it to.
She never expected to replace Sura but she thought she was getting a good deal with Spartacus.
There are moments when there's little bubbles of goodness between the two of them and the outside world constantly seems to come in and poke holes into that bubble. Mira's keeping the faith because she has these moments with Spartacus that are just so pure and genuine and real.
So I think right now she's just questioning whether or not things are actually the way that she sees them because she suddenly got the point of view from the outside world and it doesn't quite match up with how she saw the relationship.
Throughout the season your going to see her first fighting to see what her role is as a newly freed slave on her own but then also what her role is with Spartacus and whether or not he actually loves her.
"It's possible that the relationship may not last and as of right now I think its being questioned by everybody; whether or not Spartacus has anything left to give, whether or not he actually is capable of it, or whether or not he is using Mira.
And whether or not Mira truly loves him or if she just latched on to the first thing that was available.
I think its just one of those big open-ended questions of "is it going to last?" because its not a guaranteed things such as anything in this world."
