10 facts that you probably did not know about Xena: Princess warrior
If you lived through the 90s, you probably watched Xena: Warrior Princess. We can all agree that Xena was an incredible model for a generation of girls. She was intelligent, strong and a total badass. Xena was played by Lucy Lawless and guess what is Lucy's birthday today. So we decided to treat you all of 10 facts that you probably did not know about Xena.
If you lived through the 90s, you probably watched Xena: Warrior Princess. We can all agree that Xena was an incredible model for a generation of girls. She was intelligent, strong and a total badass. Xena was played by Lucy Lawless and guess what is Lucy's birthday today. So we decided to treat you all of 10 facts that you probably did not know about Xena.
1.Poseidon, the sovereign of the seas, who can be seen in the appropriations of the show, has never been really intended to appear on the show. That the whole scene and, certainly not very good, the cgi figure of the immensePoseidon was created just for credits. But as the audience continued to ask when Poseidon will appear on the show and demanding a story for this scene, the writers given and Poseidon actually appeared on the show in season 2.
2. Xena was not intended to have a show.She was written as a darker character to balance Hercules. Its arc history was originally intended to last 3 episodes, then it was supposed to die. However, the co-creator and the executive producer of Hercules, Rob Tubert, has liked the character so much, that he was finally decided to create a spino-off program for Xena.
3.Talking about Robert Tapert. Apparently, he did not just like the character of Xena, but the actress, who played her too.Lucy Lawless and Robert Tapté married in 1998.
4.Xena was originally supposed to be played by Vanessa Angel, a British actress. The character was also supposed to be a blonde Amazon. But Vanessa fell ill before they can fly for filming, so they reconsidered and offer the role to Lucy Lawless, who died his black hair. Therefore even thoughLucy was not their first choice for XenaWe can all agree that it was finally the most awesome choice of all time.
5. Lucy Lawseless almost missed the opportunity to play Xena.She was actually far in a vacation camping trip with her family when the producers of the show decided to offer her the role. Fortunately, his in-laws managed to get in touch with her and she was able to accept the offer. OUF, it was a close call. Can you even imagine Xena played by someone else?
6. XENA: Warrior Princess was filmed in New Zealand.Does the show put a lot of actors Ki Wi, but did you notice that everyone spoke in a US accent? This is because the show has been targeted by an American audience. They had dialectd coaches on the tray to teach all the actors how to speak with the American accent.
7. Lucy Lawseless fell from a horse in 1996, while repeating the show tonight. She was supposed to appear on the show tonight, but unfortunately she fell from the horse and broke her pool. It meant that she could not do her job and appear as the head of her show, the writers so found a lot of creative solutions for that. One of them had to write the episode "Intimit Stranger" where she changed her body with the villain.
8.The actor who playedHercules, Brawny Kevin Sorbo, was very bitter on XenaDevelop a separate arc history and its own spin-off show. Apparently, he simply did not understand why the creators of the show made Xena his equal, after all his character was a half-god and the strongest person in the world, how could it possibly be his equal. In addition, Xena marked higher in the notes. His attitude towards Xena became a joke on the whole of Hercules - whenever Xena's name was mentioned, people had to spit out disapproving joke.
9. The tension between Xena and Sidekick, Gabrielle, was actually intentional.The writers liked teasing the public with the possibility of a romantic relationship between the two. The show was very popular in gay and lesbian communities, so "will they choose, will not they work very well for both the public and for evaluations. The leaders in Universal were not satisfied with this idea. In fact, they told Rob Tapert that if they do everything that will confirm the homoerotic subsection, it will result in an additional interest in the show for a short time, but in the end, it will result in a good decline in visualization. numbers. So the relationship between Xena and Gabrielle has never been confirmed or refused.
10. The appropriations of the show had jokes in them, for devoted fans to spot and appreciate. As it turns out that there are no actual legislation or reasons not to include jokes such as "No Centaur has been injured in the making of the show". So, if you are a real fan, you would have spotted that in some credits of episodes, he says that "winged harpies viewed in the show have been treated with the greatest respect".