The Superman actor, Henry Cavill, made headlines earlier this year when it was revealed that he would be no longer playing Geralt de Rivia, the protagonist of the popular Netflix series, The Witcher. The actor played the lead character for the first three seasons of the show, and received a lot of praise from the fans for his spectacular rendition of Geralt. With such a perfect role, the news of his departure were very surprising and led fans to make up theories about the possible reasons for it.
There were a multitude of theories gaining popularity in social media, until the director of the series himself, Marc Jobst, spoke about it in a recent interview. He praised the actors work ethic, and also explained that Henry did his own fighting scenes and all the action stunts, which was a very difficult work.
While discussing Cavill’s hard work on the series, he explained that he doesn’t like to get any help on his scenes. ‘If he’s doing a scene with his hand balancing a sword, you know that’s his hand’, clarifying that Henry Cavill does all of his scenes, including the ones where’s he’s handling a sword and the fight scenes, and there were a lot of scenes like that throughout the series.
This, apparently, was what led the actor to take the decision of leaving the role behind. The amount of physical work needed to make the character convincing, along with the injury Henry Cavill had on set, was too much to bear.
Jobst also stated that the whole cast relied heavily on Cavill when it was time to film fighting scenes, due to his experience. This may have also added to the immense workload that finally led the actor to leave the role behind.
