{"id":244964,"date":"2026-01-21T20:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T20:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/244964\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T20:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T20:59:07","slug":"house-of-ashurs-breakout-star-opens-up-about-that-outrageously-violent-moment-in-episode-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/244964\/","title":{"rendered":"House Of Ashur\u2019s&#8217; Breakout Star Opens Up About That Outrageously Violent Moment In Episode 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Spoiler Warning: Major spoilers for &#8220;Spartacus: House of Ashur&#8221; Episode 2 below. If you\u2019re not caught up with this 2025 TV schedule release, please exercise caution. Just like its predecessor, &#8220;Spartacus: House of Ashur&#8221; has wasted no time getting down and dirty with extreme levels of violence. Though the new spinoff has not quite reached the body count of the original series, it\u2019s very much on its way after a very bloody second episode that featured one of the most gruesome TV deaths of all time, which CinemaBlend asked one of the show&#8217;s stars about. In the episode, series breakout star Tenika Davis\u2019 Achillia attempts to find her place as the sole gladiatrix in Ashur\u2019s gladiator camp. After two gladiators attempt to assault her in the dark of night, Achillia turns the tables, ripping one of her would-be attackers\u2019 manhood in the process. It&#8217;s quite a brutal moment, to say the least. Ahead of the show\u2019s premiere, I asked Davis to describe her initial reaction to reading the scene, and she shared a keen perspective on how she viewed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning: Major spoilers for &#8220;Spartacus: House of Ashur&#8221; Episode 2 below. If you\u2019re not caught up with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,143320,143317,143321,111,139,69,108686,143322,143318,437,143319],"class_list":{"0":"post-244964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-exercise-caution","10":"tag-house-of-ashur","11":"tag-major-spoilers","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-spartacus","16":"tag-spoiler-warning","17":"tag-tenika-davis","18":"tag-tv","19":"tag-tv-schedule"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}