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London, May 27 (ANI): Four Weddings and a Funeral star John Hannah will be seen in a new series ‘Spartacus’ - which is being called the “most explicit” ever made.

The series is about a gladiator who leads an uprising against the Romans.

The star had to cancel a visit from his wife and kids - as he was filming with naked slave girls. The Scot told how actress wife Joanna Roth, 45, and twins Astrid and Gabriel, six, were set to visit him during filming of a bath scene on the US-made hit.

“We were filming this sequence where there is a party and the gladiator is brought in and the girls are in the water.

“I had been thinking about bringing the wife and kids out to the set for a bit of lunch and to see the filming, but I thought maybe I better not bring them out on this day!” The Sun quoted Hannah as saying.

Hannah admitted he had been surprised by the level of nudity in the show - which launched on Bravo with an impressive 500,000 viewers on Tuesday.

“There is casual and decadent nudity in the background and you think, ‘Wow, this is different’.

“There’s one scene where I am doing some dialogue while a slave is pleasuring me!

“I don’t get a lot of humping scenes, just some orgies and me in a bath with four women which is kind of funny,” he said.

However, he doesn’t think it’s ‘too explicit’, since his sister who saw a few episodes didn’t seem to think so - in fact she found it quite funny. (ANI)