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Domina begins next week on Sky's channels
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Her grandson emperor Claudius proclaimed her a goddess back in 42AD, but Roman empress Livia Drusilla was also a grandmother or great grandmother to some of history's greatest maniacs Caligula and Nero, and also the mother of Tiberius and the wife of emperor Augustus Caesar! New eight part historical drama
DOMINA is ready to start next week May 14th on
Sky channels around Europe (Italy, UK, Ireland, Germany and Spain) and their
Now streamer, and will then swim over to USA and
Epix on June 6th for the Northern American audience! The series will begin with her patrician father siding with the murderers of Julius Caesar in order to save Rome’s traditional republican
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The series will also air on Epix in USA later in June
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system of government from dictatorship. Due to his death in the battle at Philippi, and the defeat of the republicans, young Livia and her first husband
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Actress Kasia Smutniak plays the lead role of Domina
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Tiberius Nero will have to runaway before eventually returning to Rome. Although the history has remembered her as nasty to the core, manipulative
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Matthew McNulty is the first emperor of Rome Augustus
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and evil, I have a very strong feeling that the series will, in the light of the modern revisionist feminist movements, depict Livia as a strong, good and,
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The costumes in the series were done by Oscar winning designer
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what is that word that they like so much... ah, yes, empowering woman, so the only thing I can say to that is: just read a book or two, people.
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will, similar to the legendary
I, Claudius classic series which followed her grandson, probably have that subdued tone filled with dialogues, intrigues and
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Ben Batt is Augustus' friend Agrippa in the series
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interior scenes, rather than be a dynamic adventure filled with battles and action, at least judging from the photos and trailer. The story follows Livia
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Liam Cunningham is Livia's father in the new historical series
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Drusilla, a naïve young girl, whose world crumbles in the wake of Julius Caesar’s assassination. But using plenty of intrigue she eventually becomes
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Our dear Lex Shrapnell plays Crassus in the new series
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Rome's empress by conniving to marry emperor Augustus. She then ends up navigating her way through a brutal male dominated society by means of
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Agrippa and Augustus fight together for Gaius to become emperor
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conspiracy, seduction and murder to become Rome’s most powerful and influential empress and to secure power for her son, Tiberius (who wasn't even Augustus' son, but came from her marriage to Tiberius).
Kasia Smutniak is playing Livia Drusilla, with the young Livia played by
Nadia Parkes who was scandalously awful in the atrocious Spanish Princess.
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Tom Forbes will be Sextus in the new series
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They are supported by an international stellar cast including
Liam Cunningham playing Livius, Livia’s father, and Colette Tchantcho as
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Augustus was known as a great orator of Rome
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Antigone, Livia’s best friend, ex-slave and closest ally. Created and written by
Simon Burke, the series also stars
Matthew McNulty as the future emperor Augustus, the first emperor of Rome, and Livia's second husband,
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Isabella Rossellini plays an old enemy of Livia's
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Christine Bottomley as Augustus' ex wife Scribonia,
Ben Batt as Agrippa, Agustus' friend and a consul who helped him become emperor,
Enzo Cilenti as Tiberius Claudius Nero Livia's first hsuband, while
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The series will air in eight hourlong episodes in the first season
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plays Claudia Octavia, Augustus' sister who wants her son to succeed his uncle and not one of Livia's sons from her first marriage. Our dear
Lex Shrapnel is
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Oscar winner Gabriella Pescucci created the costumes for the series
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Crassus.
Isabella Rossellini makes an appearance playing Balbina, an early enemy.
Tom Glynn Carney plays young Gaius Augustus.
Ewan Horrocks plays Livia's second son Drusus.
