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I truly don’t know.” Regardless of whether he makes an appearance or not, McIntyre has thrown his support behind the new series. “I mean never say never, and I’d never turn down a chance to make an appearance,” he said. A posthumous return is highly unlikely, but McIntyre hasn’t quite ruled out that showrunner Steven DeKnight doesn’t want him back.

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“I’m always happy to come back as a zombie,” the actor said, referring to the untimely death of his character in the series finale. In the same interview, McIntyre joked that he wouldn’t mind coming aboard the new series, which he supports wholeheartedly. There really would be no show without him.” Either at a production level, in the credits, or some other way. “With the new show, I hope they can find some way, any way to include Andy and his family in it. “I mean, who was I? So it wasn’t till I was basically turning up to set the first day that it really hit me… wait, I’m meant to follow HIM? But he’s brilliant.” McIntyre recalled following in Whitfield’s footsteps as being “pretty overwhelming” as he knew the star had “poured his heart and soul into making that character all that it was.” “I just wanted to honour that work by trying to live up to the standard he set,” McIntyre said, hoping that the producers of the new series will also honour his predecessor. He took on the role of famed gladiator Spartacus after Whitfield, who played the role in Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010), lost his battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2011.

“I never in a million years thought I’d actually get that job,” McIntyre said of playing the titular role in Spartacus: Vengeance (2012) and Spartacus: War of the Damned (2013). McIntyre revealed he believes the new series should honour the late Whitfield.