![]() “I was more than happy with Henry Cavill’s appearance as The Witcher,” Sapkowski told People. As a matter of fact, Sapkowski stated that he is more than happy with Cavill’s performance in the show: It could be considered a change inspired by CD Projekt Red’s work, but a good one.Įven if Sapkowski’s doesn’t fully describe them, it might’ve been too alienating to fans to show Geralt without his famous golden cat eyes. Once again, the emphasis was placed on the golden eyes, also prevalent in the games, but not quite in the books. They have toned down the laughable plastic-looking wig and created believable grizzled-looking hair, often covered by dirt and blood. Along with the rest of the fandom, I sighed in relief seeing his hair get toned down from the disastrous first impression wig that made even Christopher Lambert’s Rayden giggle. *Updated after Netflix Witcher show released Geralt is certainly supposed to be athletic, but the Netflix Witcher series does present him as a bit more intimidating in that respect. It was a cause of worry and a lot of memes online. Some would argue that she saw it before the rest of the world did or at least most of it.Īnyone can see that Cavill maintained his Superman form that doesn’t quite match the “lanky” and “skinny” witcher described in the books. Lauren Hissrich saw something that made him a perfect Geralt of Rivia. The British actor was included in the Netflix Witcher cast and managed to beat 200 others for the part. I waited and hoped he would be good, especially after hearing how passionate Cavill is about the role at The Witcher Panel at San Diego Comic Con 2019. Before I start: I have no major issues with Henry Cavill as Geralt, even if he wasn’t my first, second, or third choice. They found the perfect middle between the typical-looking gruff protagonist that’s popular in the industry and the more grounded description from Sapkowski’s books.Įven buffer. There are definitely attempts to make Geralt much cooler than he is in the Witcher books. ![]() In addition, his voice was deep, a little husky, recognizable, and overall pleasant. Regardless, the developers seem aware of the change, since he was called “pretty boy” several times throughout the story. Granted, he had the scars but only to make him look more interesting and hint at his experience.ĬD Projekt Red did say that it wasn’t their intention to make Geralt much more handsome than the books but that simply went with their vision. The game did not insist on his “monster” appearance too much, except the cat eyes. Honestly, I have no idea why NPCs referred to his looks as weird or scary when you walked around towns, especially those darn kids and hissing cats. GAME GERALTĪ buff, but still lean physique, handsome face, charming smile, and definitely not scary. A couple of scars here and there and he would’ve been even closer. The first game got it a bit closer to the description in the books. It just means he wasn’t the “metrosexual fruitcake” Reddit loves to call him. In fact, without giving spoilers, I’ll just say he was doing much better among the sorceresses than the game showed. However, that doesn’t mean he was doing badly at all when it came to the opposite sex. In fact, his appearance, with pale skin, milk-white, loose hair and “odd”, “dark” eyes frightened some people. Book Geralt might’ve not precisely had the ruggedly good looks that had all the sorceresses swooning. Geralt’s voice was described as “unpleasant” and had an ugly, “malicious” smile. Presented as “lanky”, “skinny”, no beard, and full of scar tissue (basically “made of sinews”). Warning: This article contains spoilers from the Witcher games and Netflix adaptation. More importantly, we’re going to compare it all, from Sapkowski’s books, CD Projekt Red’s game, and Netflix’s newly released show. ![]() So, let’s focus on what did happen and who we know from the Witcher Netflix series that just aired on Netflix. However, they’re not happening and it’s time we accept it and look at Netflix’s Witcher series with an open mind. We can argue about the perfect choices forever, and people on Reddit have, feel free to look it up. Other popular choices (but not necessarily a consensus) were Evan Rachel Wood, Jessica Chastain, or Deborah Ann Woll for Triss and Emma Watson or Natalie Dormer for Ciri. The same goes for Eva Green: the eyes, the hair, the bone structure, the attitude, all fit perfectly with how the game shows these great characters. We were all clamoring for the Hannibal actor to play Geralt and the fan artwork just made us all the more convinced he was a perfect choice.
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