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Michelle Yeoh isn't exactly hunting for a caller Geralt.
Yeoh, who stars arsenic the honorable sword-elf Scian in Netflix's The Witcher: Blood Origin, is weighing in on The Witcher's controversial determination to recast Geralt from Henry Cavill to Liam Hemsworth.
"I think Henry did specified an astonishing job," Yeoh exclusively told E! News. "Let's spot what Liam has to bring, right? That's however it is."
Cavill himself archetypal announced the decision, penning connected Instagram Oct. 29, "My travel arsenic Geralt of Rivia has been filled with some monsters and adventures, and alas, I volition beryllium laying down my medallion and my swords for Season 4."
The Justice League alum went connected to corroborate that Hemsworth would beryllium taking up the mantle for The Witcher's adjacent chapter. The quality came conscionable days aft Cavill revealed that helium would beryllium returning to the DC beingness arsenic Superman.
Fans weren't exactly pleased by this decision, flooding Cavill's remark sections with words of daze and admiration.
"I'm truly not blessed astir this," 1 spectator wrote. "Why Liam Hemsworth? Sorry to say, but he's not a bully acceptable for this [role]." Meanwhile, different added that Cavill was "literally made for that character."
In the meantime, Yeoh is focusing connected The Witcher's prequel miniseries, Blood Origin, which is acceptable 1,200 years earlier the events of the original. And, arsenic a longtime viewer of The Witcher herself, Yeoh said she "loved" wearing her quality Scian's signature look, which included colored contacts, "ghost-like" tattoos and, of course, elf ears.
"All of them person a meaning," Yeoh said of Scian's tattoos. "The ones connected the forehead say, 'Promises made shall not waver.' It's each with intention. Her people was 1 that believed successful existent loyalty. When you inquire a favour from the Ghost Tribe, you should beryllium precise wide wherefore you are doing it, due to the fact that each deeds don't spell unnoticed."
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This consciousness of loyalty, Yeoh noted, volition play into Scian's Blood Origin journey, arsenic she sets retired to retrieve a ineffable sword that was erstwhile stolen from her fallen Ghost Tribe. Ultimately, she's excited to spot however audiences volition respond to the sword-elf expanding The Witcher's already-wide canon.
"I get to play an elf, and you don't spot an Asian-looking elf moving astir a lot," she explained. "I emotion this full satellite of magic and monsters and defeating them, but I besides wanted to larn wherefore determination were these monsters. In Blood Origin, you'll find out, and it was a truly breathtaking travel to beryllium a portion of."
The Witcher: Blood Origin premieres Dec. 25 connected Netflix.
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