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The first novel was released in 1994, and the video game adaptation didn't hit the scene until 2007. Author Andrzej Sapkowski wrote 'Wiedźmin' ('The Witcher') as an entry for speculative fiction magazine Fantastyka's annual contest, wrote three more stories ultimately published as a collection in 1990, and released two more collections in 19. Just as Game of Thrones became a televised hit years after its source material was first published in 1996, The Witcher was birthed from a short story that won third place in 1986. The Witcher’s story dates back to the 1980s. That probably wasn't a bad thing to mention when she auditioned. She voiced the ruthless Duchess Anna Henrietta, who hires Geralt to solve the murder of two knights in Toussaint. MyAnna Buring, who portrays Yennefer's obsessive mentor Tissaia de Vries in the series, has a lengthy filmography, but she's only performed for one video game: 2015's The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine. MyAnna Buring had a history with The Witcher. 'It's more of a bruise rather than a broken limb or cut skin.' Anything near a person's face required using rubber swords, and for the seriously close killing shots, they used a half-sword that was later completed using CGI. If you're wondering how the production pulled off fight scenes involving heavy metal swinging at people's heads, throats, and other sensitive bits, there are three answers: They used swords made of lighter metal for fight sequences, so that 'if I put a foot wrong, or a strike wrong, no one gets injured,' Cavill explained. It might be more accurate to say that Cavill had four-and-a-half swords at work.

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In the summer of 2019, he told the Comic-Con audience, 'I spent all of my free time when I wasn't on set-and even when I was on set-with a sword in my hand.' To that end, he kept three swords at home and four at work so there was never a weapon far from his grasp. Henry Cavill had three swords at home and four at work.Ĭavill trained intensively for the role, both at the gym and with swords in hand.

They ended up auditioning 206 actors before circling back to the annoying superhero who already knew he was perfect for the part. Though Schmidt Hissrich admitted that Cavill was 'annoying,' she met with him anyway and couldn't get his voice out of her head as she was writing. He started campaigning for the part before showrunner Lauren Schimdt Hissrich had even written the pilot script. But despite being a massive gamer and Witcher fanatic, Cavill had his work cut out for him in attempting to secure the leading role in The Witcher.

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You wouldn't think that Superman would need to audition for a part in a TV series. Henry Cavill stars in The Witcher (2019). Henry Cavill had to fight pretty hard for his part in The Witcher. 'I just knew immediately that we would work together.' 2.

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'I had met Anya on her first-ever professional audition for another project,' Holland told Metro UK. Casting director Sophie Holland knew that, despite being an unknown, Anya Chalotra was the perfect actor to play Yennefer.

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While it's more common to secure a star for a series and then begin building a cast around them, The Witcher didn't work that way. Anya Chalotra was cast in The Witcher before Henry Cavill. Plus, as the worm in your ear probably knows, it comes with a killer soundtrack. It all adds up to a TV series that is both schlocky and intense and the kind of show one might call a ' guilty pleasure' (if anything pleasurable could be considered guilty anymore). The show follows the witcher Geralt of Rivia (Cavill), a magical hunter of grotesque monsters whose destiny is tied to Princess Ciri (Freya Allen) but who keeps regularly running into sorceress Yennefer of Vengerberg (Anya Chalotra) because of a spell. Also: Its meme-ified dedication to showing off a shirtless Henry Cavill's bathtub routine. The Witcher-the Netflix series based on Andrzej Sapkowski's fantasy book series, which spawned a popular video game franchise-became an immediate pop culture phenomenon when it debuted in December 2019 thanks to its pulpy monster-killing and dark fantasy setting.

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