While talking to Vanity Fair about all the in and outs of his Geralt transformation, including multiple wigs and contacts that would eventually irritate his eyes, Cavill mentioned how much he became invested in Geralt’s overall unkempt look.
“The costumers were, towards the end, quite horrified with me,” he said. “Before takes I would look at myself and say, ‘We need more dirt on me.’ They’d come up to me with this tiny little — it’s like a pair of tights rolled up into a ball, with some dust in, and they’d sort of pat it on me. And I’d say, ‘Yeah, guys, that’s not enough.'”
“So I’d go stand out in the rain. Sometimes I’d roll around in puddles. I would just try and get as much of the world on me, so this character looked like he had lived within it.”
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After pausing production on Season 2 due to the COVID-19 crisis, which caused Cavill to have enough down time to paint Warhammer figurines, cameras are set to being rolling again on The Witcher in August – with reports saying the most “controversial” part of Season 1 has now been fixed.
Season 2 will add the character of Vesemir, Geralt’s mentor, along with a slew of new Witchers.
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Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.