Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess, Battlestar Galactica) plays Lucretia in the upcoming Starz TV series Spartacus: Blood and Sand (known in the U.S. merely as Spartacus), and appears in her first full-frontal nude scenes opposite actor John Hannah.

To make her feel more comfortable, producers are offering her a pubic wig to cover the lower regions. "I haven't worn it yet... I was like 'have you got a red one?' We have one just in case," she remarked to WENN.

Regarding her first sex scene, Lawless added: "It's the first time I had to do a sex scene; I try to think of myself as a modern woman but, honestly, I went home and had to go straight to bed. It was so stressful. There's full frontal male nudity. You see plenty, trust me. I'm a little traumatized."

To get ready to reveal all that skin, Lawless hit the gym, telling The New Zealand Herald that the nudity forced her to. "I do have to work out," she said. "Being naked on-screen is no fun."

Lucretia, who along with her husband Batiatus, own the Ludus (a gladiator camp)—as well as Spartacus.

Spartacus is being played by UK actor Andy Whitfield. Other cast members include Manu Bennett (30 Days of Night, The Condemned) as Crixus, the top gladiator at the training camp, Antonio Te Maioha (Xena: Warrior Princess, Legend of the Seeker) as Barca, Batiatus' bodyguard and hit man; and Craig Parker (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Legend of the Seeker) as Glaber, a Roman legate, who blames Spartacus for his failed military campaign.

The series is produced by Sam Raimi and Joshua Donen, and Lawless' husband, Rob Tapert.

Spartacus is loosely set around historical events in the Roman Republic in 73 BC when a slave revolt grew to more than 120,000 fighters before being put down by the Roman army.