Category: Interviews

Henry Cavill reveals the love interest he chose in the Witcher games, and more

Netflix’s upcoming fantasy series, The Witcher, is slated for release in just over a week and series star Henry Cavill is now on a world-wide promotion spree. In the event of CCXP in Sao Paolo, Brazil, Cavill made a surprise appearance alongside showrunner Lauren Hissrich. There, Cavill held an interview with Omelete, where he was

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Roundup: New interviews with The Witcher cast, including Henry Cavill

Netflix is launching The Witcher‘s first season in just a couple of weeks, with the promise of monsters, magic and dark moral themes. Superman‘s Henry Cavill stars as the titular witcher Geralt of Rivia, Anya Chalotra stars as his love interest, the badass sorceress Yennefer of Vengerberg, and Freya Allan stars as their adoptive daughter

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The Witcher’s Anya Chalotra and Freya Allan talk set experiences, character journeys and morality

Fans from all over the world have long awaited the first season of Netflix’s new fantasy adaptation The Witcher, and now we’re just a little more than two weeks away from the release. So far, much of the spotlight has understandably gone to Geralt actor and superstar Henry Cavill (Man of Steel, Mission Impossible) but

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The Witcher showrunner: “Henry Cavill changed my understanding of Geralt”

On December 20, Netflix’s new fantasy epic The Witcher will finally grace our screens, with Henry Cavill (the titular witcher Geralt), Anya Chalotra (the powerful sorceress Yennefer), and Freya Allan (the young princess Ciri) in the leading roles. Showrunner Lauren Hissrich has been busy promoting the show through various conventions and interviews in the last

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UPDATED: The Witcher’s costume designer touches on character journeys, elf costumes and Nilfgaard

With Netflix’s upcoming fantasy series The Witcher, starring Henry Cavill, mere months from release, more and more articles on the show are being released around the world. Not so long ago, Turkish magazine Episode brought us the first in-depth interview with The Witcher’s composers Sonya Belousova and Giona Ostinelli. That wasn’t all though, as they

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Andrzej Sapkowski talks creative freedom and slavicness in The Witcher

Thirty-three years since Andrzej Sapkowski’s first short story The Witcher made its debut in the Polish Fantastyka Magazine, Nowa Fantastyka sat down with the author to talk about his first impressions of the upcoming Netflix series, his stance towards creative liberties in adaptations and the debate on “slavicness” in his work. Marcin Zwierzchowski: Regarding the

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Executive producer Baginski teases The Witcher animated project

While the first season of The Witcher arrives on Netflix on December 20 and the second starts filming in February 2020, there’s possibly something else in production for the Henry Cavill franchise. Back in September, the NSFW blog Recapped sparked rumours about an animated Witcher series. Here’s what they said: “They were casting for an

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Nowa Fantastyka interviews The Witcher’s Lauren Hissrich, Anya Chalotra and Freya Allan

As part of an exclusive special edition, Nowa Fantastyka interviewed The Witcher’s showrunner Lauren Hissrich, as well as lead actresses Anya Chalotra (Yennefer) and Freya Allan (Ciri). Here are a few highlights from the interview. Marcin Zwierzchowski: How is the relation of Geralt and Ciri in the show? In books, they meet when Ciri is

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