At a recent ‘The Witcher’ press event with IGN, Cavill discussed where the series may go beyond interpreting Witcher author Andrzej Sapkowski’s novels: “We don’t quite know what happens to Geralt at the end of the books. There’s a strong suggestion, but then we also have the games, which have happened after the books, and then the games all have different endings as well, so maybe something happens after that. Maybe something has happened before that.”
While The Witcher season 2 filming was halted owing to the COVID-19 outbreak, Henry Cavill got the opportunity to re-play the original video games. Cavill stated in an interview: “I decided to put it on the hardest difficulty possible to play, which I’ve done before, and it was really quite stressful! I forgot quite how stressful it was. These days I’m not rich in time and so I haven’t, unfortunately, had too much of a chance to have a go with the games again.”
When asked if Toussaint, the region of The Witcher 3’s Blood & Wine DLC, would be a great place for the show, Cavill replied: “It would be, yes, Toussaint exists within the books, and Geralt spends some time there, because he gets trapped there when the pastors get snowed in. And so, I think there is a beautiful opportunity to explore Toussaint.”
Cavill has also stated that he has never visited Toussaint in the video game: “I actually haven’t played the DLC. The audacity of me! But I’m saving that because I’ve heard that they are both brilliant. And I’m going to perhaps sit down at Christmas with my nephews and see if we can have some fun there.”
Season 2 of The Witcher was completed a few months ago and will be available on Netflix in December. Geralt, the “grumpy snowman,” as he is known in the first season, could become a little more outspoken in season 2.
Cavill shares in this interview: “This season, I really wanted to make sure that we represented the book’s Geralt more accurately, and that we saw him speak more. I pushed really, really hard for that. I wouldn’t say cheery. He’s still Geralt of Rivia, but he’s definitely coming across as more of an intellectual. It’s a hard life, monster hunting… I wouldn’t recommend it.”
