Watch Geralt break down The Witcher’s best fight scene shot by shot - riterhick1959

Unless you've been hiding out in a cave these foregone hardly a weeks, you've almost certainly heard of Netflix's The Witcher show (or at leastthatsong, Slash a Coin to Your Witcher). Unrivalled of the to the highest degree breathless sequences of the show is in its first installment – a fight between Geralt of Rivia and the grouchy (and armed) ethnic music of Blaviken. If you were wondering how it was done, Geralt himself is Hera to fill you in.

That's thanks to a video recording posted to the Netflix YouTube channel (via Kotaku) in which Geralt histrion Henry Cavill deconstructs the Blaviken fight shot away shot – check it out below. Starting with the moment Geralt enters the scene and a foe readies his crossbow, Cavill explains the shot was designed by Wolfgang Stegemann, a stunt and fight coordinator connected the show, who had the idea of using a camera to circle the weapon as a agency to capture the danger to Geralt in this moment.

"What makes a Witcher and Geralt same, same unscheduled is the ability to deflect an pointer in mid-flying or, in this case, a crossbow stiffly. We wanted to make it unique in a sense, and Wolfgang's idea of the photographic camera environ capitate the crossbowman allows the audience to palpate that instant like the bolt was truly going to hit him", the actor explains.

Similarly, Cavill takes a look at how the actors often use "cut-off swords" for the trickier parts a crusade, where there's an extra level of challenge or danger to those involved – and you can watch for yourself some examples in the footage downstairs of what this looks like before the eternal sleep of the blade is digitally added.

Cavill also discusses the challenges the cameraman faces in such a scenery, needing to depend on computer storage operating theater a guiding bridge player prat them to work out where they're going (when reversing).

In the beginning, Cavill reveals, there was an pick to make the panoram up with different shots – just as you fire see in the evidenc, the final version is extraordinary single (hugely impressive) shooter. "There's no time for mistakes. At that place's no space for mistakes", he explains.

In that location's as wel a breakdown of the scene in which Yennefer has to escape a alarming assassin with Faggot Kalis of Lyria to see. Her actor, Anya Chalotra, negotiation about the challenges of timing moments when the killer's knives pierce their carriage utterly, and many – and it's cured worthy a watch. Check it out below:

If you too have caught The Witcher bug, you power be interested in our list of the best Witcher 3 mods (there's like a sho indefinite that replaces Geralt's default face with Henry Cavill's), also as The Witcher stunt outtakes. You can also check out all there is to know about The Witcher 4 release date stamp to that degree.