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Henry Cavill goes over the process of becoming Geralt for Netflix's The Witcher

It's all about the wig
by rawmeatcowboy
31 July 2019
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Henry Cavill really, really wanted the role of Geralt in Netflix's adaptation of The Witcher. After months of annoying everyone involved with the project, he landed the gig, and the rest is history! In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Cavill opened up about the process of becoming Geralt for the series.

"We have the description in the book, and Lauren [S. Hissrich, The Witcher's showrunner,] and I went through many conversations via email and phone before we even met for the third time, because we had a first meeting, then an audition, and then we saw each other on location. We were just it was all about eyes and hair, and the hair took a long time -- we had to get the wig right -- which took some amazing work by Jackie, who [...] does my hairwork.

It was tricky. We had to get the skintone right as well, and Alva who does my makeup worked really hard on that and just found that right balance. We went through plenty of tests [...] and we finally settled on something which I think we were all really happy with.

Wearing the contacts was one thing, you had to wear them for three hours at a time, and then take them out. So it was... I look really badass, but my eyes hurt a little bit. But it definitely helps you get into character. When you're wearing all that getup, it's just a short step to Geralt from there."

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