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B<\/span>orn in Auckland, New\u00a0Zealand, Lucy Lawless, 57, studied drama in Canada. In the 1990s she starred on television in Xena: Warrior Princess. She went on to appear in Battlestar Galactica, Spartacus, Parks and Recreation, Agents of SHIELD and Salem. Her films include Spider-Man, EuroTrip, Boogeyman, Bedtime Stories and Minions: The Rise of Gru. In 2024 she made her directorial debut with Never Look Away. She plays Alexa Crowe in the crime series My\u00a0Life Is\u00a0Murder; all four series are now available on DVD and digital. She is married for the second time, has three children and lives in New Zealand.<\/p>\n What is the trait you most deplore in\u00a0yourself?<\/strong> What is the trait you most deplore in\u00a0others?<\/strong> What is your most treasured\u00a0possession?<\/strong> Describe yourself in three words<\/strong> What makes you unhappy?<\/strong> What do you most dislike about your\u00a0appearance?<\/strong> What is your most unappealing habit?<\/strong> What scares you about getting older?<\/strong> Which book are you ashamed not to\u00a0have read?<\/strong> What did you want to be when you were growing up?<\/strong> What is the worst thing anyone\u2019s <\/strong>said\u00a0to you?<\/strong> What does love feel like?<\/strong> Which living person do you most despise and why?<\/strong> skip past newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Sign up to Inside Saturday<\/span><\/p>\n The only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend.<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.<\/span><\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Which words or phrases do you most\u00a0overuse?<\/strong> What has been your biggest disappointment?<\/strong> If not yourself, who would you most\u00a0like to be?<\/strong> How often do you have sex?<\/strong> What would you like to leave your\u00a0children?<\/strong> What has been your closest brush with the law?<\/strong> What is the most important lesson life\u00a0has taught you?<\/strong> Born in Auckland, New\u00a0Zealand, Lucy Lawless, 57, studied drama in Canada. In the 1990s she starred on television in Xena: Warrior Princess. She went on to appear in Battlestar Galactica, Spartacus, Parks and Recreation, Agents of SHIELD and Salem. Her films include Spider-Man, EuroTrip, Boogeyman, Bedtime Stories and Minions: The Rise of Gru. In 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[615,11290,3575,859,6901,5225,337,1165,4113,891],"class_list":{"0":"post-18483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bag","9":"tag-dumpster","10":"tag-hair","11":"tag-ive","12":"tag-lady","13":"tag-lawless","14":"tag-life","15":"tag-lucy","16":"tag-sex","17":"tag-style"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Laziness.<\/p>\n
Cruelty.<\/p>\n
My Antonio Carraro Tigre tractor. At\u00a0the end of the week, I lovingly wash\u00a0her down and regrease her. I\u00a0learned to do everything on YouTube.<\/p>\n
Insular, creative and mechanically\u00a0minded.<\/p>\n
Politicians justifying blowing other people\u2019s children to bits.<\/p>\n
I have bag lady hair. I can\u2019t seem to get it right. I look like I\u2019ve\u00a0just\u00a0had sex in a\u00a0dumpster \u2013 no\u00a0offence to bag ladies. I\u00a0guess hair is just not high on my list of priorities.<\/p>\n
Flossing my teeth in the car.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t want to get into an early death spiral, when you\u2019re scaling down your\u00a0life unnecessarily because you\u2019ve already been there or done that. I\u00a0never want to stop adventuring.<\/p>\n
Anything by Dostoevsky. I tried!<\/p>\n
A criminal pathologist. Then I saw a\u00a0show called Quincy ME and realised I\u00a0just wanted to play one on TV.<\/p>\n
They tend to say it behind my back.<\/p>\n
Freedom.<\/p>\n
I currently have a special enmity for Stockton Rush of the Titan submersible disaster. Whoops. He\u2019s dead.<\/p>\n
Oh, for fuck\u2019s sake!<\/p>\n
I suspect it hasn\u2019t happened yet.<\/p>\n
Maggie Smith. Lady Grantham is\u00a0my\u00a0spirit animal.<\/p>\n
Withering gaze from Lady Grantham.<\/p>\n
A great education.<\/p>\n
I got arrested for boarding and occupying a drillship heading to the\u00a0Arctic. I was with a team from Greenpeace New Zealand. I spent a few hours in a cell \u2013 we were out before the end of the day. We managed to have a\u00a0few laughs, but it was pretty stressful.<\/p>\n
That there is time. I doggedly prioritise and pursue tasks, and the day seems to\u00a0open out and everything does get done. Chill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"