Fantasy Netflix's The Witcher - General Discussion Thread

[Persona]

So footage has leaked of Toby Sebastian reading for the role of Duny. The Witcher Netflix subreddit says the woman reading Queen Calanthe in his screentest is Florence Pugh (Black Widow, Fighting With My Family). I post it here but it's on The Witcher Netflix subreddit.

Florence Pugh is a phenomenal actress who has really been on the rise since Lady Macbeth. That's huge if they got her for a role.

 

[TheVileOne]

Florence Pugh is a phenomenal actress who has really been on the rise since Lady Macbeth. That's huge if they got her for a role.

Persona, for clarification, she wasn't getting screentested, she was simply reading to help her own brother, Toby Sebastian, for his own screentest in the show. She's off screen reading the other portion so Toby can do his screentest. The Witcher Netflix subreddit identify the voice as hers, we don't even see her face. Like the script portion featured two characters, likely Duny and Calanthe. Pugh was simply reading the Calanthe lines so Sebastian would have someone to play off of.

I think that would be cool if she made it into the show somehow, but I imagine she's in high demand ATM.

 

[Persona]

Oh okay

 

[KillerMcQueen]

She's also about a decade too young for Calanthe, seeing as she's Pavetta's mother/Ciri's grandmother, they'd ideally be looking for someone in their mid thirties for the story about Duny and Pavetta who could play older for scenes taking place after Ciri's birth.

 

[Lilbaz]

She's also about a decade too young for Calanthe, seeing as she's Pavetta's mother/Ciri's grandmother, they'd ideally be looking for someone in their mid thirties for the story about Duny and Pavetta who could play older for scenes taking place after Ciri's birth.

Grandmother in mid 30's? I know they had kids younger in the middle ages but think they'd go a bit older to suit moddern viewers.

 

[KillerMcQueen]

Grandmother in mid 30's? I know they had kids younger in the middle ages but think they'd go a bit older to suit moddern viewers.

She's 19 when Pavetta is born and 34 during the story with Duny, and probably no older than 36 when Ciri is born. I wouldn't be surprised if her age gets bumped up for the show though.

 

[TheVileOne]

Grandmother in mid 30's? I know they had kids younger in the middle ages but think they'd go a bit older to suit moddern viewers.

Well about that:

Spoiler

In the book, Pavetta is revealed to be pregnant when she's like 15, and it means that Duny knocked her up at like 14. I'd say Calanthe is probably early 40s at the time.

 

[OutOfBoose]

Couple of Freya Allan pics because why not:

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

She is cute in a strange way.

 

[OutOfBoose]

Loving variety in environments.

Ciri can be seen in one of the shots.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Loving variety in environments.

Ciri can be seen in one of the shots.

Wait... what is this?!

 

[OutOfBoose]

Wait... what is this?!

Brazilian TV report from Budapest studio where they're making the show. Concept art is on the walls plus probably some shots from the series.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Brazilian TV report from Budapest studio where they're making the show. Concept art is on the walls plus probably some shots from the series.

Awesome!

 

[OutOfBoose]

A bunch of photos from the recent filming:

In photos: filming of The Witcher continues at the Egri vár másolata castle

Nice set decoration. Plus Triss pic.

 

[Legendver2]

Couple of Freya Allan pics because why not:

She's 17? She looks 11 tbh lol

 

[Marvolo]

Grandmother in mid 30's? I know they had kids younger in the middle ages but think they'd go a bit older to suit moddern viewers.

Or they could stick to the source and modern audiences could stop imposing 21st century morals and standards on a medieval society...not to mention a medieval fantasy society. Having kids that young isnt even really that archaic a thing. My great grandmother was married at 14 and had her first kid at 15. My mom's side of the family was very rural and farmed so the quicker a girl could marry and start popping out kids the better it was for the homestead.

And in the case of royal families the quicker they produce an heir the better because it secures the bloodline. It wouldnt make much sense for a high ranking royal woman to wait until shes in her 20s to have a kid. She'd be considered a spinster or rumors would spread that she was incapable of having kids. Which was a quick way to become a social pariah.

 

[TheVileOne]

Once again:

Spoiler

In the books, Duny basically knocks up Pavetta with Ciri when Pavetta is 14. Also, for the actress playing Calanthe, she still might be playing up older in age.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

If the show is coming out in November shouldn't we be getting a trailer this month? Usually trailers drop 6 months in advance.

 

[OutOfBoose]

Netflix doesn't do that.

 

[Albright]

Yeah, Netflix drops sometimes trailers 1 month before release ( ok not for Stranger Things)

 

[TheVileOne]

If the show is coming out in November shouldn't we be getting a trailer this month? Usually trailers drop 6 months in advance.

No they don't. Not for Netflix.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Well I'm not familiar with how Netflix works. Can someone fill me in?

 

[OutOfBoose]

Well I'm not familiar with how Netflix works. Can someone fill me in?

They usually drop promo stuff pretty close to release dates. How close - it varies. A month or a week. Witcher seems to be one of bigger projects of Netflix, so there's some chance they will start promoting it earlier, but there's not rule for 6 or 3 or 0.2 months in their case.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

So in other words.... don't expect anything soon.

 

[OutOfBoose]

So in other words.... don't expect anything soon.

Damn right.