Those About to Die Q&A with Iwan Rheon, Gabriella Pession & Roland Emmerich

Roland Emmerich has been to 10,000 BC and back again. He's dealt in alien invasions, Earth-shattering climate change, and celestial catastrophe, but never has the director worked in the television sphere. So what was it about Peacock's latest sword-and-sandal series, Those About to Die, that convinced him to make the leap?
Following our advanced screening of Episode 1, Collider's Perri Nemiroff moderated an exclusive Q&A with Emmerich and co-stars Iwan Rheon, who plays the sly, lowborn Tenax, and Gabriella Pession, who plays the cunning and fearless Antonia. The two represent the plebeian and patrician classes of Ancient Rome in 79 AD, respectively, and discuss the ways their characters manipulate the system, whether from clawing their way up by any means necessary, or defying social norms, driven by the "pursuit of power." Emmerich shares the challenges and joys of making the move to TV, working on the Volume stage, and teases explosive, deadly episodes he can't wait for viewers to experience.
In addition to the multiple Academy Award-winning Anthony Hopkins as Emperor Vespasian, Rheon and Pession, Those About to Die features Jojo Macari and Tom Hughes as Vespasian's sons, Domitian and Titus, Sara Martins as a Cala, a Numidian trader, Moe Hashim as Kwame, Cala's son and a captured lion hunter forced into gladiatorial slavery, and Dimitri Leonidas as the celebrated charioteer, Scorpus.
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