New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.

When I'm not working, I weight train three times a week and swim and surf as much as I can - in the summer, you usually find me in the water.

We have researchers involved with the show [Spartacus] and they pointed me in a pretty great direction, in terms of what to read, and what to look at or look for, and they also provided me with some material.

Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable. In some ways, we have similarities, but in other ways, we're completely different. It's hard to say because I'm an actor living in a world where we're all pretty privileged, and this guy is fighting for his life. They're very different circumstances. Within those circumstances, there are probably ways that we react to certain situations that are similar.

The White Ribbon Foundation is organization I support. They're bringing awareness of violence against women and I think it's important in our society.

I lead a very physical life. I played a lot of sports and I spent a lot of time in the water surfing, swimming. I was a big swimmer.