HBO's Rome Release Party

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Hey Young Hollywood, I'm Liza Morro. We're here at the top floor at Barney's where HBO is having their DVD release for Rome. Come on, let's go check it out.

I'm here with Kevin McKidd. Who plays Lucius. Now, the last name of Lucius, I want to want to say anus, but what what is the name?

Hello. It is Varenus, but all the American crew on the show would say Varena's. I say it's not Varena's, it's Varenus, please.

You know, you've been running around in a toga, tunic the whole time. I mean, do you prepare your legs for that?

You have to work, uh, you do step, uh, you do a lot of shaping on the calf muscles to get. I think I'm Scottish. Scottish men are quite good at wearing kilts. We got the legs for that. I think it's just in our DNA.

Do they do they get out their little gladiator outfits?

They do. My son just bought one today. He's obsessed by swords because he was on set a lot. He just loved that whole, you know, the whole the horses and the shields and all that stuff.

I'm here with Polly Walker who plays Atia in Rome. It's been a really successful series, so I'm looking forward to watching it. I've not managed to get all of it.

The DVD box set is really, really good and apparently it's got loads of background information about ancient Rome.

What do you like about L. A. as opposed to Europe?

The weather. The weather. The weather. The fact that we're not having massive floods right now. The ease, the relaxed sort of way of life. I'm a complete convert.

I'm here with James Purefoy, and you're playing Marc Antony, is that correct?

That's right.

What's it like running around in a toga all day long?

I was happy to get back into the suit and use a cell phone at the end of the day. We spent two and a half years in Rome. He was a great character. A man who had no idea of how to put his foot on the brake of life. He lived his life at 500 miles an hour all the time. What's white and flies through the jungle? What? Tarzan, the fridge.