Liam Hemsworth takes over as Geralt after ‘The Witcher’ season 3, but that doesn’t mean Henry Cavill phoned in on his final turn as White Wolf. Quite the opposite, in fact. For the final set of episodes, he again worked without a stuntman, performing every fight himself. But as stunt coordinator Wolfgang Stegemann revealed to Unilad, Cavill went even further this time, with the actor becoming like a “second fight coordinator” in the show’s third season. Steggemann added:
“What a lot of people don’t know, they think the stunt team gets together and we start choreographing something and showing him. It’s not like that. He’s been there all along and giving all his contribution.”
Steggemann explained how he and Cavill would meet before filming to figure out how to “approach the scene and how the storytelling goes”, calling the process “like composing a song”. Revealing that Cavill was “deeply involved in the whole process” of creating fight scenes in “The Witcher”, Stegemann recalled how their collaborative work went beyond combat design and extended to the movement of the camera and plan selection. He said: “Henry and I sit together on the monitor and we hold the cameras and we fight to find the right angles, the right movements.”