You’d think a movie star best known for playing Superman would have his pick of roles – but Henry Cavill admits he begged for this job.
A lifelong keen gamer, Cavill cast ego aside and did what any jobbing actor would when he heard whispers one of his favourite games was being adapted into a TV show: beg for an audition.
“I fell in love with them. It was such a wonder to read something so new, a fresh take on the genre,” he said, Cavill said he had no qualms about returning to the small screen a decade since he finished up on historical TV seriesand made the leap to bona fide movie star: “TV is becoming a very different thing now – it’s an opportunity to longform story tell,” he said.It’s violent, dark and densely packed – viewers are thrown in the deep end on episode 1 and expected to pick up the show’s complex mythology as they go along .
It’s also the sort of project that comes with a long list of spoiler alerts, making Cavill’s job in promoting the series something of a minefield. More than a few times during his Manila press commitments, he stopped himself mid-sentence lest he gave away a plot point he’d rather audiences discover for themselves.
“The leather trousers … we had our struggles with those. It wasn’t getting them off or on. The problem is, leather stretches, and because Geralt leaps around, they end up not looking so flattering after a while. We had to redesign the trousers throughout to make them more suited to the sort of athleticism Geralt carries out on a daily basis,” said Cavill.
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