


The first season of The Witcher follows Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster hunter, who struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts. "All of the times that we saw him withhold, all the times that we saw Geralt sort of internalize things as opposed to externalize, in Season 2 he's going to be confronted with that a lot more and has to make some different choices." "I think a lot of that conflict is fun to play, and it's kind of all going to explode in Season 2," she continued.

RELATED: The Witcher: Blood Origin Is Coming Soon, Here's What We Know "It's all protecting the sort of internal - we call it his white knight syndrome - his internal desire to be a hero and the sort of human emotions that he can't help but let filter through, even though he's determined to tell everyone that he doesn't have an emotional capacity," she said. Hissrich recently explained that while Cavill's character started out in the first season as a single-minded mercenary, season 2 will evolve his arc and peer even more behind Geralt's apparent apathy. While the caption may state "New armour, same witcher," this is not entirely the case, with showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich recently revealing that season 2 will stretch Henry Cavill's acting muscles even more than his actual ones compared to Geralt's first adventure. Hx7UCpzrTW- Netflix UK & Ireland October 5, 2020 Here's your first look at Henry Cavill as Geralt in Season 2. Donning a sleekly upgraded new armor and looking at stoic as ever, the images are sure to leave fans of the hugely popular fantasy series anxious for more. You have that opportunity to go back and course correct if you want to.Netflix has released our first look at Henry Cavill's return as the silver-maned monster hunter, Geralt, in the upcoming second seas of The Witcher. It’s a chance to look at the mistakes we’ve made in season one and do it better, tell stories better, improve some things, look at what didn’t work, get rid of it, and start over.”Īn example she discusses is the armour: “The Nilfgaard armour will be totally different. Hissrich has discussed the armour on a recent episode of Flickering Myth’s Writing Experience podcast (via IGN), and said there were plans to “course correct” some aspects of the first season in the next. Remember when those first images of Nilfgaardian armour in Netflix’s The Witcher adaption popped up and caused a bit of a stir with some of the games and books’ fans? Despite previously explaining its design was to differentiate it from the Cintran army’s armour, writer and showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich has now revealed there are some changes in store for the Nilfgaardian troops’ look when The Witcher season 2 release date rolls around.
