Be Here Now

This is the test.

It's a bit low.

Let's try again.

Looks a bit better.

Okay, is this thing on?

What now?

Hey, guys.

What are you doing?

I wanna try it, daddy.

I wanna try to do it to you.

So it's recording the whole thing.

Video is movement, as opposed to still.

So you can do cool dancing.

Did it.

You got one?

-Let's take a look. -

Here comes Indi.

Aw, you're big, aren't you?

Ready, Jesse?

Wow, through his legs.

Okay, hang on. Whoo!

Dad, dad like this?

Dad, dad like this?

Yeah.

Hi, daddy.

So what have you got there, Andy pants?

So this just arrived.

Sharp.

That's real metal.

That was daddy's sword in Spartacus, Jesse.

Can I hold it?

And look, they've put my name on it.

Spartacus being the start

of this crazy old journey.

Whoa, this is heavy.

It's really heavy.

Heavy, heavy.

So here we have my beautiful husband

who has just finished his bone marry biopsy.

Was I? I must've been out.

- Yeah. -I don't remember much.

But the cancer is back.

And, I guess where we're at is

at a point of learning to live with cancer again,

and all the repercussions and fears

and everything that go with that.

And that's why we need to take it day by day,

beat this disease and...

Live happily ever after.

We have a way in our lives and world

where if we really focus on something

and we really want to make something happen,

we put absolutely everything into it.

Yummy.

So there's a ham that's slightly overcooked.

Even if it takes years, we are capable,

together, Andy and I, of making

extraordinary things happen.

Vashti and I have always had

an amazing relationship, and we've achieved some

quite remarkable things together in a relatively short time.

Because we believe that all that is attainable.

And it's such a powerful place to be

when you can think like that.

It creates a space for you to be clear

and to run your life with your intuition and not with fear.

Our life has never been ordinary.

Thank god, you know?

And we have a commitment that we have an extraordinary life.

Look at that face. You see that face?

But it doesn't matter

if we are successful or not.

It's about the journey and if you commit to it,

something extraordinary will come of it.

Hey, Indi, how old are you going to be on your birthday?

-Three. - Three?

With five fingers.

How old are you going to be?

-Six. - Holy Mackerel, six.

- Sixteen? -No, six.

And how old are you going to be, old bugger?

- I'm going to be 80. -No, 40.

39, I'm going to be this year.

- What a year. -What a year.

- The year. -I shall remember it.

- -Time.

Okay.

It's still running?

Yup.

Take five-three.

Thank you.

I've spent the last eight years

trying to make it as an actor,

and I pushed hard to get there.

And it was the end of a long campaign

when I auditioned for the lead of a huge American TV series.

At one point in that journey,

Andy had gone out for Spartacus and he was in LA.

Whatever happens to me, my men, their families,

happen because we choose it.

We decide our destiny.

Not the Romans.

And I remember that day I wore a little note

in both cups of my bra, 'cause I had boobs then,

saying, "Andy is Spartacus.

Andy is Spartacus."

I kept sending him emails saying,

"How fantastic. You've got Spartacus."

Before he even got it.

We made it happen, and that's how we roll.

Why are you here? What's happening?

What's going on?

Well, this is, this is real.

That's real sweat.

This is Gladiator Boot Camp.

I started yesterday and my buttocks are killing me.

I turn up one day going, " This is actually bit terrifying now

because this is what I've wanted for so long

and it's here and I have to deliver."

Action.

Andy literally arrived back from LA

and went straight off to start shooting

in New Zealand and suddenly becoming Spartacus

and cutting a six pack and glutes and pecks of steel.

Action.

I mean, I was exhausted,

but I'm pretty sure anyone would've been.

It's one of the most extreme things I've ever gone through.

I keep pace with the mighty Spartacus.

I think Spartacus is a unique show.

I mean, you're walking around in your underwear.

You have to train your arse off just to look the part,

let alone doing your own fight choreography

and the long film days.

Spartacus!

That is not my name.

And of course, the action is a big component of this show.

But it's just there to highlight the drama.

The story is about an everyman who finds himself

captured by the supposedly civilized Romans,

and is forced to fight for his own survival.

Begin.

And I think as the show continues,

his passion to help liberate all the people

trapped by circumstances of which they had no control

becomes something that he can really put his energy into.

How much longer?

How much blood until we're free?

Soon.

I promise you.

He just can't sit back and take the abuse.

He will make a stand for everyone and everything.

However many times they knock him down,

while there is still blood pumping through his veins,

he will get up and fight and fight

and never, never, ever stop.

And there's certainly parts of me

that I can identify with that.

So it's really my dream role to be the title character

and to collaborate with all these amazing people.

How white your teeth are.

Amazing.

-Got the gladiator smile. - It's 73 B.C.

It's the gladiator smile.

And to have a show so well-received and successful,

I sort of had everything at my feet.

I am Spartacus.

Season one of Spartacus finished,

and I was in a lot of, a lot of pain at the end of that,

and wasn't sure what it was and it wasn't going away.

I got a call saying, "Hon, I'm in trouble."

And I said, "What do you mean?

You've just gone to see a sport's doctor."

And he said, "I think I've got cancer."

And I threw myself in a taxi and raced across

Sydney to look at a huge X-ray, a basic one, nonetheless,

of my husband's body with black patches everywhere.

I ended up being diagnosed with Non-hodgkin's Lymphoma,

and it was pretty extreme.

It was stage four at the time,

and so everything went on hold with a view to coming back.

My oncologist was saying,

"You know, if you want to get cancer,

this is the one you want. It's 80% treatable.

You're young and healthy.

You'll just breeze through the treatment."

And so, I never, ever, ever was scared of it.

The whole treatment, Andy had to go through

the chemotherapy, but he did it

extraordinarily gracefully, humbly,

and he gave everything to how he could heal himself.

I really fell in love with him even more through that.

I went into remission, which was great.

Everything got back on track

and I galloped to the next season, season two.

[audience applauding and cheering]

Come on, Andy!

The champion of Capua,

the bringer of rain, Andy Whitfield.

You know, I'd like to have this opportunity as well