The final episode of Xena: Warrior Princessaired in June of 2001. By July of that year, there were already fan campaigns to get the series back in general, and to get Lucy Lawless as Xena and Renée O’Connor as Gabrielle back, period.

Indeed, when we last spoke with Ms. Lawless during San Diego Comic-Con in July, she seemed very open to the idea of at least a reunion film, stating that even the character’s series finale death was a matter of semantics. “No one really dies!” Lawless laughed. “Screw her head back on, it’s a bit wonky, and she’s got a really bad attitude since she’s been in a box for 20 years, so they’ve got to get Xena’s mojo back, and go and save the world somehow.”

Unfortunately, despite a Xena reboot having since been confirmed, Lucy Lawless does not expect she’ll play a major role in that series.

While chatting with Ms. Lawless during a phone interview for October’s hotly anticipated Ash vs. Evil Dead on Starz, a series that has revived another cult icon with Bruce Campbell in the lead role, inevitably the conversation turned to the developing Xena redo and whether she’d play an onscreen part in it.