Katrina Law From Spartacus Vengeance Talks About Her Character Mira, The Circle Of Deah And Girls Making Out
What can viewers expect to see in the upcoming episodes?
Katrina Law: More mayhem and chaos. This is pretty much right about where the story really starts to kick in. Up until now you've been reintroduced to characters. There's a little bit of time where you see Liam [McIntyre] as the new Spartacus. You're starting to figure out what the different worlds are, and right around episodes three and four is where all of the sub-plots and plots just start to kick in. More mayhem goes on, and from here on it it's just a very, very fast roller-coaster ride.
Mira seems like she's trying to find her place in the group and her new role. Can you talk about that?
Katrina Law: Yeah. She's been interesting to play just because up until now she hasn’t really had much to do. She was a slave her entire life and when Spartacus came onto the scene in season one she'd never met anyone like him before and she had never hoped to dream or to think of what a future might be outside of the House or what it might mean to be free. So, all of a sudden she has all these opportunities at her fingertips and I can actually start to feel her vibrate with the possibilities.
She's getting excited, and she does realize that she can't just be beholden to Spartacus her entire life. In episode two one of the characters, Chadara, pointed that out to her and that was the first time Mira saw from an outside point of view how people view her. She's stronger than that, and so I really do feel that from now on out she's going to be taking a stand, trying to figure out what her place is, what it means to be free, who she is as an individual. And then whether or not Spartacus loves her or she loves him and then if that's going to lead to anything.
Clearly Mira isn't a pushover. Are future episodes going to show more of the badass Mira?
Katrina Law: Yeah. Once the beast has been released, you're not going to get it back into the cage . This is part of her life that she never knew or a part of her personality that she never knew about, to be fierce and to be violent and aggressive. She has a lot of pent up anger with the way that she's been treated her entire life, and now that she realizes that she wants freedom and she's going to have to fight for it, she's going to fight tooth and nail to get it.
Mira and Spartacus have this idea about freedom where they believe everyone should make their own choices, but it's not easy for them when the try to spread the message to former or current slaves
Katrina Law: It is interesting because you would think that every slave would want to be free, but that's not necessarily true. Though most slaves were treated poorly, there are some slaves that actually reached a high status in the slave world and were given places to sleep and they were clothed and fed. To them that's all they ever really needed or wanted. So, to suddenly have that security blanket ripped away from them by some other man's ideals isn’t necessarily the ideal situation for that particular slave.
Even within the rebellion, there's a rebellion within the rebellion because people are trying to figure out who to follow, what to do, where to go. The house slaves have no identity of their own. They're basically beholden to the gladiators, Mira included. So, they're on their own, trying to figure out, 'How do we feed ourselves, shelter ourselves, clothe ourselves, protect ourselves because, god forbid, the gladiators decide to up and leave us or they killed off?' So, it's a really interesting journey for everyone.
