Lawless, 33, is six months pregnant with her third child. She said her time as Xena had left her mentally, physically and creatively spent.

"For six years, I gave it every ounce of everything I had. It wasn't just the acting. There was a lot of other baggage that came with it," she said.

It's been a year since Xena ended filming in Auckland and Lawless says she is ready for the play written by American Eve Eusler.

"I'm looking forward to it because, much as we think we're all modern, liberated women, we're really not when it comes to our own vaginas," she said.

"I think it'll be a really useful thing to take the stigma away from our attitudes to our own bodies."

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