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The Witcher fans believe some “awkward” interview footage explains why Henry Cavill left the Netflix TV show.
It’s a shame what has happened to The Witcher TV show. The Netflix live-action adaptation started off strongly with its first season and while there were a few inconsistencies with the source material for the most part it impressed fans.
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When season 2 rolled around it was a different story, and when season 3 aired in two parts fans were pretty much done with the series. They weren’t the only ones either as Henry Cavill, who played Geralt himself, had announced the third season would be his last. He’s now passed the swords and white wig over to Liam Hemsworth and while Hemsworth has been putting a lot of time into researching the role by reading the books, it hasn’t stopped fans from relentlessly attacking him.
The fourth season of The Witcher is set to drop sometime in 2025 provided it’s not cancelled, and while they wait with pitchforks and torches in hand, fans have been speculating what made Cavill leave the show in the first place.
While it could just be that he was tired of the work and wanted to move onto another project many believe it was the story straying so far from the books that caused the departure.
A tweet from mofromyt showed a clip of Cavill in an interview with series showrunner Lauren Hissrich who’s said she found the actor to be “really annoying” due to his insistence on staying true to the source material.
In the clip Hissrich talks about injecting comedy to the series to lighten the darker tone, with a popular example being Geralt’s solemn goodbye to his horse Roach being interrupted for the sake of comedy.
Fans said “I don’t blame him for walking away,” and believe future seasons will be rock bottom for the show without Cavill there to keep viewers engaged.
The fourth season of The Witcher is expected to air in 2025 on Netflix.