{"id":37892,"date":"2025-09-25T22:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/37892\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T22:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:55:06","slug":"liam-hemsworth-confronts-witcher-backlash-over-henry-cavill-recasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/37892\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Hemsworth Confronts Witcher Backlash Over Henry Cavill Recasting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLiam Hemsworth<\/a> told Entertainment Weekly<\/a> that he stopped using social media for \u201cmost of last year\u201d after Netflix announced he was taking over the role of Geralt\u00a0in \u201cThe Witcher<\/a>\u201d from fan favorite Henry Cavill<\/a>, who headlined the fantasy series for three seasons. Hemsworth will now be the show\u2019s protagonist for its final two seasons, starting with the launch of Season 4 in October.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere was quite a bit of noise and I had to put that aside. It started to become a distraction,\u201d Hemsworth said about the fan reaction to his casting. \u201cI dealt with that sort of thing in the past a lot and, you know, at the end of the day, I love making movies and I love telling stories and acting. I just don\u2019t want any of that to affect my way of telling the story that I\u2019m trying to tell. I jumped off social media and the internet most of last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFans were devastated to hear that Cavill was not going to continue with the series. The \u201cMan of Steel\u201d star tried to get ahead of any fan backlash by immediately giving Hemsworth his blessing. As Cavill wrote in a statement at the time: \u201cIn my stead, the fantastic Mr. Liam Hemsworth will be taking up the mantle of the White Wolf. As with the greatest of literary characters, I pass the torch with reverence for the time spent embodying Geralt and enthusiasm to see Liam\u2019s take on this most fascinating and nuanced of men.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Witcher\u201d series creator and showrunner Lauren Hissrich told EW<\/a> that talks of Cavill\u2019s exit from the series were happening \u201cfor a while\u201d before Hemsworth\u2019s recasting was made official.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe had plans for other roles that he really wanted to commit himself to,\u201d the showrunner said of the show\u2019s original star. \u201cAnd for us, you don\u2019t want to hold someone and force them to be doing something that they don\u2019t want to do. I think that\u2019s why it felt like a really symbiotic decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnya Chalotra, who plays Yennefer on the series, \u201ccried\u201d when she found out about Cavill\u2019s exit, adding: \u201cI remember it so vividly. It really impacted me. We were so bonded to these people, and to lose such an important member of the team\u2026I\u2019ve put everything into this character. I started [\u2018Witcher\u2019] having not much work under my belt, and this show means the world to me. So it hurt.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Cavill\u2019s exit was never going to be the end of \u201cThe Witcher.\u201d As Hissrich explained: \u201cWe never really had serious conversations about the show not continuing. The show is bigger than one actor. It\u2019s bigger than me. There\u2019s a book series, there\u2019s a video game. We are the third entry into this. So\u00a0\u2018The Witcher\u2019\u00a0lives whether or not we go.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Witcher\u201d Season 3, which was released on Netflix in two parts in June and July 2023, was Cavill\u2019s final outing as the character. Hemsworth officially debuts when Season 3 streams Oct. 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Hemsworth told Entertainment Weekly that he stopped using social media for \u201cmost of last year\u201d after Netflix…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,30918,85,46,30919,10802],"class_list":["post-37892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-henry-cavill","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-liam-hemsworth","tag-the-witcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}