The third season of Netflix’s monster-hunting fantasy show The Witcher is out now, and it’s the best one yet. Not only does it faithfully adapt the events of Andrzej Sapkowski’s novel The Time of Contempt, but it’s also the final time we’ll see Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia. When The Witcher returns for season 4, it’ll be Liam Hemsworth slicing and dicing villains as Geralt instead.
That means that we’ve now seen Cavill’s entire run as Geralt. From epic battles to quiet tear-jerking moments, the actor has had left a huge body of work behind. Let’s look back on the first three seasons of The Witcher and discuss our favorite moments from Henry Cavill’s performance as Geralt.
1. The Butcher of Blaviken
The Witcher starts off with a bang in its series premiere episode, “The End’s Beginning,” which centers around a confrontation in the town of Blaviken. This is our introduction to the series and to Cavill’s Geralt, and it delivers. Even after all the other action set pieces that have featured throughout the series, the showdown in the town square of Blaviken holds up as one of the best.
This episode is adapted from Andrzej Sapkowski’s short story “The Lesser Evil,” which sees Geralt torn between the sorcerer Stregobor and the deposed warrior princess Renfri, both of whom want to convince the witcher to kill the other. Geralt doesn’t want to get involved, but when has that ever worked out for him?
The Blaivken fight gives Cavill a chance to showcase his physicality, a crucial part of embodying Geralt onscreen. By pretty much any standard, he crushes it; Geralt’s initial salvo of chopping through Renfri’s bandits is brutal, swift, and unrelenting.
Things only get better once Renfri appears. The stunt work in their fight scene is incredible, emphasizing the constant push and pull between Geralt and Renfri. Cavill does a fantastic job portraying Geralt’s reluctance to fight Renfri, right up to the moment where he gives her a chance to back down and ends up impaling her with her own knife when she refuses.
Blaviken also has a top-notch resolution as the townsfolk turn on the witcher, throwing stones at him and urging him to leave their village. Geralt is a tragic figure because of how reviled he and his guild are even as they do their best to keep others safe. It’s still one of the best sequences in the entire show.
2. Curing the striga
The very first short story that Andrzej Sapkowski ever wrote about Geralt of Rivia was “The Witcher,” a brooding horror story in which a monster hunter tries to cure a cursed princess and suffers a terrible injury in the process. We saw that story come to the life in Episode 103, “Betrayer Moon.”
In the Kingdom of Temeria, Geralt discovers that a monster has been plaguing the locals. This beast is so dangerous that it’s already slain one witcher. Geralt vows to slay the beast in his fallen brother’s stead as a way to make things right with the Temerians, who believe the last witcher absconded with their money.
From there, “Betrayer Moon” unravels like a carefully plotted mystery, with Geralt uncovering the true nature of the striga. It turns out that it’s the incestuous child of King Foltest and his sister, who was cursed upon birth. Geralt resolves to cure it, but only finds out at the last minute that in order to do so he’ll have to keep it from returning to its coffin until after the cock crows three times.
As with the battle of Blaviken, Geralt’s battle with the striga stands the test of time. This is the first time we see Cavill’s witcher truly go toe-to-toe with a formidable monster which could tear him to shreds, and it’s exhilarating. The striga is terrifying.
This fight sees Cavill do plenty of stunt work, like being tossed around the room and using a variety of different weapons against the striga, such as a silver chain and brass knuckles. The difficult thing about the striga fight is that Geralt is only trying to incapacitate the beast long enough for the curse to lift, rather than kill it.
We see Geralt’s exhaustion through Cavill’s performance. The fight extends from the hallways of an abandoned castle down into the crypt before it finally ends in front of the striga’s coffin. Even then, things aren’t quite over. As Geralt stands over the newly cured princess, she leaps up and tears a chunk out of his throat with her teeth.
Not only do we see Cavill portray Geralt at his strongest, using witcher potions, signs and other tools of the trade to fight the striga, but we also see him laid low as this final wound renders him unconscious. It’s one of the standout sequences of his performance on The Witcher.
3. The Cintran royal ball
Episode 104, “Of Banquets, Bastards and Burials” features a royal ball at the palace in Cintra, where Geralt accompanies Jaskier as a way to pay back the bard for all the good will he’s drummed up among the masses with his songs immortalizing the witcher’s deeds. This ball is a crucially important bit of lore for the overall story, as it explains how Geralt and Ciri first became bonded after he helped unite Ciri’s parents despite the violent protests of her grandmother, Queen Calanthe.
Once the ball goes off the rails, Cavill gets yet another chance to do some of his trademark swordplay, fighting alongside a creature we eventually learn is Emhyr var Emreis of Nilfgaard. There’s also plenty of magic as Geralt and the druid Mousesack deal with the otherworldly power of Ciri’s mother Pavetta.
But what really makes the ball stand out are all of the conversations. This is the first time we see Geralt stuck in a situation where he has to deal with a bunch of different nobles, profoundly out of his element. Geralt’s discomfort with being forced to do things like wear doublets and make nice with rulers is an important part of his character, and Cavill totally nails it with his deadpan performance. We don’t get another scene like it until the Thanedd ball in season 3, and by then Geralt’s so preoccupied with larger matters that he doesn’t get quite as much time to poke fun at the nobility and wish them “a shitless death.”
4. Geralt and Jaskier fish up the djinn
Jaskier and Geralt’s camaraderie is a huge part of The Witcher no matter the medium. There’s just something charming about the odd coupling between a gruff monster hunter and a flowery bard who can’t stop running his mouth. This was one of the most important character relationships for Netflix to get right, and it did.
Joey Batey is a perfect Jaskier, and a great foil to Cavill’s Geralt. The two shine pretty much anytime they’re onscreen together. But if there’s one moment which perfectly exemplifies their relationship, it’s when Geralt fishes up the djinn while Jaskier cajoles him in Episode 105, “Bottled Appetites.” Batey’s performance carries the scene, but it only works so well because of the grumpy, rude way that Cavill responds to him and sets up all the punchlines. This scene is one of the best examples of Cavill and Batey’s chemistry at work, and remains a joy to watch.
5. Geralt and Yennefer go on a dragon hunt
Geralt and Yennefer’s first meeting in “Bottled Appetites” is a key scene in Andrzej Sapkowski’s short story “The Last Wish.” The show didn’t quite give it the same gravity that it gets in the books, but it made up for it in the following episode, “Endangered Species,” which gave viewers a deep exploration of Geralt and Yen’s relationship while they were taking part in a dragon hunt.
This episode gave us a few crucial moments for The Witcher’s leading couple. The first is when they retreat to Yennefer’s tent partway through the hunt. Inside, they finally discuss their feelings for one another in a heartfelt scene that contains a ton of information about how their on-again-off-again relationship progressed following their initial meeting. Henry Cavill and Anya Chalotra show a vulnerability in this scene that makes it stand out.
After that, there’s the chaotic battle at the dragon’s nest, where Geralt and Yennefer mix it up in a fight together for the first time. They even kiss mid-combat.
If only things were meant to last. The episode leaves them on a bitter note, separating ways for the time being. “Endangered Species” has a lot of character development for their relationship, and since it sticks pretty strictly to the short story “The Bounds of Reason,” it gives Chalotra and Cavill plenty of room to flex their acting chops. For Geralt and Yennefer, this is the both the highest and lowest point of their season 1 relationship delivered in one episode.
6. Geralt reunites with his mother Visenna
According to conventional wisdom, witchers can’t feel human emotions anymore due to the mutations they undergo in order to fight monsters. However, Geralt proves this a myth time and again throughout The Witcher, as he shows genuine care for those close to him and rage against those who have wronged them. Yet we rarely see Geralt display as much emotion as in the few scenes which involve his mother Visenna. Those scenes give Cavill room to show a bit more of his range as an actor.
The first and only time we actually see Visenna onscreen is during the season 1 finale, “Much More.” After Geralt is bitten by a ghoul, a grateful merchant brings him to a local sorceress who works as a healer. That sorceress is Geralt’s mother. We learn through brief flashbacks that Visenna abandoned Geralt by the side of the road as a child, which led to him being taken in by the witchers.
When Geralt first awakens under Visenna’s care, he hallucinates that she’s someone else; first Renfri, then Yennefer. But once Visenna tells him that those linked by destiny will always find each other, Geralt’s eyes snap into focus and he realizes who he’s talking to. It’s a powerful scene, with Cavill walking a fine line between anger and hurt as Geralt finally confronts his mother about why she abandoned him decades after the fact. A highlight is when he asks how she likes his eyes, telling her only three boys in 10 survive the brutal Trial of the Grasses to become witchers.
The scene with Visenna is important for Geralt’s character, and the highlight of Cavill’s acting in The Witcher season 1 finale.
7. Geralt and Ciri meet in the forest
Geralt’s encounter with Visenna is also important because it helps set up the final stinger of The Witcher season 1, as well as one of its most emotional moments. Following Geralt’s encounter with his mother, the merchant who he saved earlier in the episode brings the witcher to his home on his cart. Yet hardly has the merchant had a chance to thank Geralt before his wife drops a line about a young girl running off into the woods.
Remembering cryptic lines from both Renfri and Visenna, Geralt stumbles off the cart and out into the forest, believing this girl in the woods to be Ciri. The show strings us along, letting us wonder if they’ll actually meet before Ciri appears at the last moment, running toward Geralt.
The two embrace, witcher and Child Surprise united at last. This is the first time Geralt and Ciri actually meet in the TV show, and while Cavill only has a single line in the scene, it remains an emotional high point of the first season.
8. Showdown with Vereena the Bruxa
The Witcher season 2 kicks off with one of its spookiest set pieces, which culminates in a battle between Geralt and one of the franchise’s most recognizable monsters. “A Grain of Truth” adapts The Witcher short story of the same name, which is essentially Andrzej Sapkowski’s take on Beauty and the Beast…except in this world, the beast is played by Tormund Giantsbane actor Kristofer Hivju, and the beauty is a bloodsucking vampire called a bruxa, played by Agnes Born.
Geralt’s fight with the bruxa is a great set piece which gives Cavill his first chance to act as a protective paternal figure for Ciri. But Geralt is a witcher; any fatherly care he might have is tempered by the fact that he’s also a mutant who downs toxic concoctions that turn his eyes black in order to fight monsters.
The real heart of the scene is the emotional tug of war between Geralt and Ciri, as well as Nivellen (Hivju). Geralt wants to exterminate the bruxa because it’s a monster and it’s feeding on the locals of nearby villages. But Nivellen loves the bruxa; she’s the only one who sees past his beastly demeanor, who knows of his terrible past but doesn’t judge him for it. Ciri is sympathetic to this plight, and interjects herself into the battle at key points to try and stop the violence.
Ultimately, Nivellen and Geralt are forced to put down the bruxa to keep her from killing Ciri. This is a complex moment for our witcher, and Cavill conveys the inner conflict throughout the fight. And as always, the stuntwork is great.
9. The death of Roach
Season 2 doesn’t have as many standout moments for Cavill or Geralt as The Witcher’s first or third seasons. Even the fight scenes don’t pop quite as much. But Cavill gets a quietly powerful moment when Geralt’s horse Roach dies.
Roach’s is killed by the claws of a czernabog right at the start of Episode 206, “Dear Friend.” This terrifying beast flies down out of the sky trying to grab Ciri, but after Roach throws her from the saddle the poor horse takes the brunt of the attack.
The highlight of the sequence comes shortly after, when Geralt and Ciri crouch over the bleeding horse. As Ciri laments the damage done to Roach and asks if there’s anything to be done, Geralt unsheathes a knife. There’s no coming back from this, and the best the witcher can do is ease his friend’s passing.
Part of what makes the Roach scene so memorable is that Cavill hismelf pushed to say the lines in Roach’s eulogy. Showrunner Lauren Hissrich revealed a while back that originally Roach’s death was supposed to come off as more of a joke, but Cavill got so upset at the idea of Geralt’s trusty steed being disrespected in such a way that Hissrich essentially told him to go figure out better lines on his own.
Cavill went back to the source, returning the following day with the passage that we saw in the final cut of the episode. Those lines are drawn straight from Sword of Destiny, when Geralt believes that Yennefer died at the battle of Sodden. Repurposing them for the TV show led to one of the most heartwrenching moments of season 2.
10. The Battle at Kaer Morhen
The Witcher season 2 culminates in a battle at the witcher’s keep of Kaer Morhen, where Ciri, possessed by an otherworldly being called the Deathless Mother, has murdered a bunch of witchers and opened a portal to another world. Geralt and Yennefer arrive there just in time to keep Ciri from murdering Vesemir, but saving her from Voleth Meir proves to be a far more complicated process.
Through Ciri, the Deathless Mother brings a foreign strain of basilisk into the keep. The huge CGI beasties prove to be more than a match for many of the witchers, mauling people left and right as Geralt and Yen struggle to heal Ciri. Adding to their problems is the fact that Vesemir has decided that saving Ciri’s life isn’t worth the amount of witchers who are being slain. Geralt’s old mentor tries to kill Ciri himself, so Geralt must hold him off while trying to free Ciri from the grip of the Deathless Mother.
The battle at Kaer Morhen isn’t my favorite part of the series; Yennefer cutting her wrists to save Ciri, a large group of witchers standing no chance against two basilisk, Vesemir being so fickle with his choices…the sequence is a bit weird. But Cavill shines as Geralt, whether he’s refusing to give up on Cirilla or mixing it up in combat.
At one point, a large white basilisk comes out of the portal and attacks Geralt directly. He looks spectacular as he slices through its maw before knocking it off the ramparts of the castle. The battle of Kaer Morhen may not be the best moment in The Witcher, but it’s crucial for Geralt.
11. Playing house with Yennefer and Ciri
The Witcher season 3 begins with an extended sequence where Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer live in hiding together. Over the course of a few months, they move from house to house, staying mere steps ahead of the forces pursuing the princess. It’s during this time that we finally see them bond as a family, which leads to some wonderful work from all three actors.
I’m counting this entire montage as one big moment for Geralt. There are so many great parts of this sequence, like Geralt watching while Ciri and Yennefer take an accidental spill on the ice while skating, or the three of them sharing dinners together and fooling around in the kitchen. It’s the happiest this family ever gets to be, and it’s a joy to watch.
Part of why this sequence works so well is that, finally, we get to spend a decent chunk of time with Geralt, Ciri, and Yen all in one place. Cavill and Chalotra’s chemistry finally hits its stride in season 3 after some hiccups before. We also get to see Geralt happy, an emotion that Cavill doesn’t get to play very often in this series. It’s a crucial part of the journey. The devastating events later in the season work as well as they do because this opening episode does a great job of selling us on the idea of these three as a happy family. If only it could last…
12. Belleteyn
The climax of the happy sequence is a Belleteyn festival where some of the people searching for Ciri finally catch up to her. Belleteyn is a key part of Geralt and Yennefer’s story that was never explored in the TV series. They enjoy the event while reminiscencing about their relationship.
It’s a charming scene that shows off the chemistry between Cavill and Chalotra. Cavill leans into Geralt’s mischievous side, reminding Yennefer of dalliances she fails to mention.
I was torn about whether to put Geralt and Yen’s first meeting in season 1 on this list, but it’s easy to omit when every scene they have together in season 3 is just so much better and more natural. That’s especially true of this conversation at Belleteyn, where they reflect on the way the djinn bonded their destinies.
The quick battle with the jackapace also lets Cavill get out the silver sword for the first time in season 3. Geralt’s papa bear side comes out here. We’ve seen Geralt take his time with fights, but if those he cares about are in danger, there’s no messing around. His quick execution of the jackapace sets the tone for some of the brutal action yet to come.
13. Shaerrawedd
Geralt and Ciri’s visit to the elven ruins of Shaerrawedd is one of the most memorable scenes from Blood of Elves, so it was a big disappointment that it wasn’t in season 2 of the show. Fortunately, The Witcher made up for it when made this set piece the capstone to the season 3 premiere. The show also added Yennefer and the trap for the fire mage Rience into the mix.
Geralt has a few great moments during the Shaerrawedd sequence. The first is when he and Yennefer relay the tale of the elven queen Aelirenn to Ciri. This discussion about neutrality is hugely important to understanding Geralt’s worldview, as well as a set up for his eventual turn away from neutrality in the season 3 finale. Cavill gives off a paternal air as he discusses this difficult topic with Freya Allan’s Ciri, who rightly feels that staying neutral isn’t truly an option for her as royalty.
Shaerrawedd kicks into high gear once Rience and the Scoia’tael arrive. As various factions collide, Geralt pursues Rience through his own portal while Yennefer holds it open, which is dangerous because it requires her to concentrate and there’s a deadly battle raging around her. After breaking both of Rience’s wrists, Geralt returns to the ruins in time to pursue Ciri, who has been captured by Scoia’tael.
It’s here we get one of the best scenes of Cavill’s run as Geralt: the Shaerrawedd one-shot fight. Cavill and stunt coordinator Wolfgang Stegemann planned out an elaborate sequence where Geralt fights his way across the ruin, all while a camera operator chases him around the set. It required rehearsing the sequence more than 90 times, and it was filmed 35 times to get it just right. The Witcher has plenty of great fight sequences, but there’s nothing else quite like this.
14. Descent into Vulipanne castle
Following a lead from information brokers Codringher and Fenn, Geralt’s pursuit of Rience leads him to the abandoned castle of Vulipanne in Episode 302, “Unbound.” Unbeknownst to the witcher, this abandoned laboratory is where Rience’s employer Vilgefortz of Roggeveen has performed horrific experiments.
Geralt uncovers something terrifying at Vulipanne. Fleshy tentacles extend from the wall of a subterannean cavern, the severed heads of three teenage girls attached to their ends. Another girl is found in a cocoon; she believes herself to be Ciri. But the worst is the flesh monster, an abomination formed of the misshapen bodies that belong to the severed heads. It has too many hands. Far too many.
Geralt’s fight against the flesh monster is one of the most stunning creature battles in the entire show. It’s an entirely original monster dreamed up for the Netflix series, and the fight choreography sells the unsettling terror of the situation. Henry Cavill has always shone brightest as Geralt when he’s in the midst of an intricate action sequence, and the fight against the flesh monster is one of the best.
15. Geralt learns of his mother’s death
Season 3 gives us a quiet resolution of one of The Witcher’s longest-running subplots. Following Geralt’s horrific encounter at Vulipanne, he heads to a druid friend of his named Anika to see if she can help the girl who believes herself to be Ciri. It backfires, and the fake Ciri is possessed and attacks. She is subdued, but Anika is injured.
As the druid lies in bed, Geralt asks her questions about her friend Visenna. Anika gives Geralt the bad news that his mother was beaten to death in a race riot; she was mistaken for an elf. This leads to one of Cavill’s best monologues of the season as Geralt grapples with his complicated feelings about his mother. He even sheds a tear as he talks about it. It’s a haunting scene.
16. The aeschna hunt with Ciri
Geralt and Ciri get plenty of time to bond throughout The Witcher season 3. One of their highlights is the monster hunt for the aeschna, an aquatic creature terrorizing ships crossing the channel to Thanedd. We’ve seen Geralt play the role of the protective father time and again on The Witcher, but the aeschna is the only time we’ve seen him actually coach Ciri through a monster hunt.
At first, Geralt is resistant to hunt the aeschna. But at Ciri’s urging, the pair decide to kill the creature in order to secure passage to Thanedd. Geralt is quietly amused over Ciri’s insistence that both of them are witchers and therefore they should be hunting monsters.
And of course there’s the fight itself. The aeschna comes crashing onto the chain ferry, leaving Geralt and Ciri no choice but to get out their swords and take care of business. The choreography in this fight is fascinating, with Geralt often hanging back in order to let Ciri take the lead. There’s a ton of subtle communication about their relationship. Cavill and Allan, both of whom did all their own stunts for the scene, crush it.
The cherry on top comes after the ferry makes landfall. As Geralt and Ciri debrief, Geralt tells his ward that he’s proud of how she handled herself. It’s one of the best moments for this father-daughter pair.
17. The Thanedd mage ball
We come next to Thanedd. Season 3 allowed Geralt and Yennefer to spend more time together than ever before in the series, and it all culminated with the mage ball at Aretuza. Like the Cintran royal ball, the highlight of this scene in terms of Cavill’s acting is how much Geralt is a fish out of water among all the mages.
Sabrina Glevissig tries to make a pass at Geralt, and he hilariously diverts the attention back to Yennefer. Philippa Eilheart makes veiled comments about the political state of the Continent, while Redanian spymaster Dijkstra makes veiled threats. Thanedd progresses differently than it does in the books, but it’s still extremely enjoyable in large part because of Geralt’s utter disinterest in being there.
The other side of this episode-long sequence is that it lets us see Geralt and Yennefer’s last night together before everything goes to hell the following morning. By this point, Cavill and Chalotra have been portraying these characters together for years. That familiarity bleeds off the screen in the quiet bedroom scenes, where the two compare notes about what they learned at the ball.
The Thanedd mage ball gave Cavill time to bring out Geralt’s sarcasm as well as his tenderness with Yennefer one last time before everything changes for good.
18. The Duel with Vilgefortz on Thanedd Isle
Few moments stand out in Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher Saga books like Geralt’s defeat at the hands of Vilgefortz of Roggeveen during the Thanedd coup. This is one of the most crucial turning points of the series, and it was important that the Netflix show get it right.
Fortunately, it did. To keep Vilgefortz from capturing Ciri, Geralt remains behind to fight off the mage while she flees into the elven tower of Tor Lara. Viewers have every reason to believe Geralt will trounce the mage as he trounces every other enemy that crosses his path. We don’t realize Geralt is going to lose the fight until he’s already losing, and it is brutal.
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The duel between Geralt and Vilgefortz is largely carried by the performances of Cavill and Mahesh Jadu. This is a complex fight which not only has intricate action beats, but essential plot development; this is when we learn just how powerful Vilgefortz really is. Cavill portrays this dawning realization perfectly, giving Vilgefortz shocked little looks as he parries attacks no mortal should be able to parry.
We’ve never seen Cavill play Geralt getting chipped down and beaten the way he is during the Vilgefortz fight. It’s incredibly compelling. There’s a reason this scene is so iconic in the book series, and thanks to the hard work of Cavill, Jadu, and the crew, it will end up being one of the show’s most iconic moments as well.
19. Geralt’s recovery in Brokilon Forest
Vilgefortz breaks Geralt during their fight; his femur, his back, and his spirits are all crushed. This is the single worst defeat that Geralt suffers in The Witcher books, and he has to spend a long time getting back on his feet. We get a bit of this at the end of The Time of Contempt and much more at the beginning of the following book, Baptism of Fire. On the show, Geralt completes the healing process at the end of season 3, just in time for him to start off on his next adventure.
For the recovery sequence, Cavill leans into parts of Geralt we’ve never seen before. He’s so battered that all he can do is lie prone and groan out words. It’s easy for that to look silly rather than painful, but Cavill doesn’t let it. We see him struggle back onto his feet too early and fall over and over as he tries to get back out into the world to search for Ciri. We see him get back to training, make elixirs with Jaskier, and trade barbed remarks with Milva. There’s a lot of great stuff in Brokilon.
A high point is Geralt and Yennefer’s final goodbye of the season. Who knows when they’ll see each other again? Anya Chalotra does some incredible work in this scene. And Cavill’s reaction is perfect when she says, “Please tell me this isn’t the last time we’ll see each other. I need you, Geralt.”
Geralt starts to answer, stops himself, and then simply says, “I need you too, Yen.” He doesn’t push back on the idea that it’s the last time they’ll see each other. It’s a nuanced little gem of a moment.
20. The Nilfgaardian checkpoint battle
We arrive at Henry Cavill’s final moment as Geralt of Rivia. Is it any surprise that it makes the list?
Throughout the first three seasons, Geralt has fought tooth and nail to stay neutral amidst the political upheaval of the Continent. That all comes to an end in the season 3 finale, “The Cost of Chaos.” After giving up Renfri’s broach as a bribe to get through a Nilfgaardian checkpoint, Geralt overhears the soldiers bullying the next family in line. The commander threatens to rape their teenage daughter, and you can imagine how Geralt reacts, having just lost his own daughter at Thanedd.
Despite Jaskier’s pleas to just keep walking, Geralt turns around. He walks right back to the checkpoint, punches out the commander, and then proceeds to butcher the entire unit. After watching Geralt lose in single combat to Vilgefortz, the Nilfgaardian checkpoint battle reminds us that the White Wolf is still a force to be reckoned with, even when he’s not at his best.
This sequence also gives us a glimpse at what’s to come in season 4, where Geralt will travel with a group of companions known as his hansa. As Geralt fights, Milva emerges from the forest to cover him by shooting three soldiers who were rushing toward him. Geralt has always been a great fighter, but he will no longer do it alone.
Given how much Henry Cavill brought to Geralt’s fight scenes, is it any surprise that the TV show wanted to send him out with one last battle? The Nilfgaardian checkpoint battle has a lot going on; I don’t even want to think about how complicated some of the choreography was, with Geralt switching between various weapons, Jaskier running around in the background, and soldier after soldier throwing themselves at the witcher. At the same time, we see that Geralt isn’t moving quite the same.
Henry Cavill completely owned the role of Geralt of Rivia. He played the White Wolf at his best and worst. While we’re looking forward to seeing what Liam Hemsworth brings to the part in season 4, Cavill will be sorely missed.
Season 1-3 of The Witcher are streaming now on Netflix.
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series being covered here wouldn’t exist.
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