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News movies & tv series 04 December 2019, 22:18

Netflix's Witcher - Henry Cavill on Fans, Haters and Geralt

Henry Cavill, the actor playing Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher, was a guest on Jake's Takes. In four minutes he revealed his favorite roles and admitted how he perceives the fans. Including persons considered to be toxic.

For Henry Cavill, toxic fans are just people who are very passionate about the subject.

A short interview with Henry Cavill appeared on the YouTube channel run by journalist Jake Hamilton. In Jake's Takes, the British actor playing the lead role in The Witcher series produced by the VOD platform Netflix revealed his attitude towards fans, haters and Geralt of Rivia. The conversation lasted four minutes.

The host first asked his guest about which of the characters he played would he like to get to know best. Cavill pointed out two characters he is most interested in: Superman and Geralt. He played the role of the first of the aforementioned heroes in Man of Steel (2013), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and League of Justice (2017). His creation of the White Wolf, we'll debut on the screens soon. The Witcher series will debut on Netflix on December 20 this year. The actor also confessed that this choice was influenced not only by his work. He is equally interested in these heroes and would like to get to know them better, even if he is not directly connected with them.

Hamilton noticed that in films with Superman, despite the hero's sincere intentions, people often put obstacles in his way. The journalist asked Cavill whether the fans' reception of the character is similar, with toxic groups appearing among them. The actor's response was very liberal and somewhat surprising. In his opinion, fans have the right to have whatever opinion they want, and dissatisfaction cannot be avoided. This is particularly true for roles based on books and games, as the actor will never be exactly as the audience imagined the character to be. So he won't play out every inch of Geralt's behaviour, e.g. from the game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

I wouldn't call this [behavior] toxic. I think it's more of passion I've come across many times over the years," added Cavill.

The actor pointed out that the opinions of fans are influenced by many factors (e.g. xenophobia, sexism, colonialism). Their fear is turned against something else. As an example he gave Geralt, who is stronger and more efficient than the average person, and also lives beyond society and beyond control. So when he shows up in town, he makes you scared. That is why he is the focus of all the evil energy that gathers in people, through everything that remains above them.

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Krzysztof Kaluzinski

Krzysztof Kaluzinski

At GRYOnline.pl, works in the Newsroom. He is not afraid to tackle various topics, although he prefers news about independent productions in the style of Disco Elysium. In his childhood, he wrote fantasy stories, played a lot on Pegasus, and then on a computer. He turned his passion into a profession as an editor of a gaming portal run with a friend, as well as a copywriter and advisor in a console store. He doesn't care for remakes and long-running series. Since childhood, he wanted to write a novel, although he is definitely better at creating characters than plot. That's probably why he fell in love with RPGs (paper and virtual). He was raised in the 90s, to which he would gladly return. Loves Tarantino movies, thanks to Mad Max and the first Fallout he lost himself in post-apo, and Berserk convinced him to dark fantasy. Today he tries his hand at e-commerce and marketing, while also supporting the Newsroom on weekends, which allows him to continue cultivating old passions.

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