# Henry Cavill replaced by Liam Hemsworth as Geralt in The Witcher tv series **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, netflix\ **Created:** [October 29, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988 "2022-10-29T21:29:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988/1 "2022-10-29T21:29:53Z")
> **[The Witcher Renewed for Season 4 by Netflix, Liam Hemsworth to Replace Henry...](https://www.ign.com/articles/the-witcher-renewed-for-season-4-by-netflix-liam-hemsworth-to-replace-henry-cavill-as-geralt-of-rivia)** > > Netflix's The Witcher will officially be returning for a fourth season, but it will be doing so with a new Geralt of Rivia as Liam Hemsworth will be replacing Henry Cavill after Season 3. Cavill has one more season that they have filmed that will air in a future date. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988/2 "2022-10-29T23:06:54Z")
Hrmm, not sure I like the casting choice. Geralt is so stoic and dour, not sure if Hemsworth can pull that off. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988/3 "2022-10-29T23:13:07Z")
I loved Henry in this role. I’ll be sad to see him go. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988/4 "2022-10-29T23:19:07Z")
Agreed. Cavill’s performance has been the one consistently great thing about the show, which has been pretty uneven from a writing standpoint. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988/5 "2022-10-30T00:15:29Z")
I’ve really enjoyed Cavill, but if he is moving on I wish him well. I hope Hemsworth is equally good. It would not be the first franchise to replace the lead, I hope it will be successful. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988/6 "2022-10-30T09:01:17Z")
Hemsworth’s a good enough actor, given this isn’t Shakespeare, so I’m sure he’ll do OK. I will miss Cavill, though, and it sucks if he’s indeed leaving to play Superman again. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988/7 "2022-10-30T10:48:43Z")
I’ve really liked Cavill. This news makes me sad. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988/8 "2022-10-30T12:45:20Z")
I had the impression that Hemsworth was much younger than Cavill, but they’re 32 and 39 so that’s not that big a difference. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988/9 "2022-10-30T14:31:34Z")
I think Cavill is great as the Witcher, terrible as Superman. So this annoys me. I’ll give it a shot, but I’m not optimistic. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988/10 "2022-10-30T16:45:51Z")
I think a lot of the problems with the writing are because they’re trying to fit something of a square peg into a round hole between the books and the show. The structure of the early books wasn’t sequential or connected, and even some of the “main” characters weren’t well developed until late in the books. And it feels to me like they tried to resequence the vignettes into something of a coherent order, and bring in and/or flesh out characters that weren’t fleshed out, or who weren’t fleshed out that early. I mean, Istredd wasn’t a main character at all, but he’s fairly major in the TV show so far. Yennefer ends up fleshed out, but early on, she was rather mysterious. A lot of the Nilfgaardian conquest of Cintra wasn’t really fleshed out until the last couple of books, instead of being in the first or second episode. So it’s necessarily going to be kind of screwed up if they’re trying to come up with an alternate compelling story order and fleshing stuff out of whole cloth to make it fit. I think Hemsworth can do it well, but I think Cavill was the real soul of the show. He **nailed** Geralt in a way that is going to be hard to follow. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988/11 "2022-10-31T03:36:30Z")
So, what are we thinking? Will they have Geralt drink the fancy shapeshifting potion to explain the new face and body, or is it something they feel like bothering to explain at all? If they did want to go with a potion (or spell or magical thingamajig), they could do a fancy transformation sequence that I bet people would like. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988/12 "2022-10-31T08:51:36Z")
I’d prefer they simply not mention it. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988/13 "2022-10-31T17:18:06Z")
yeah - maybe he could die and regenerate! ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988/14 "2022-10-31T21:24:31Z")
Spectacularly creative! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988/15 "2022-11-04T17:14:50Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > I think Cavill is great as the Witcher, terrible as Superman. So this annoys me. I’ll give it a shot, but I’m not optimistic. Definitely. His Superman left a lot to be desired and I never even made it thru his first appearance. No way I try to watch him again. Not really thrilled with Liam Hemsworth either. I’ve only seen him in _The Hunger Games_ and wasn’t that impressed. I think he could be accurately described as a poor man’s Chris Hemsworth. ---
**Author:** ![Papermache\_Prince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Papermache\_Prince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papermache_Prince)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988/16 "2022-11-04T17:22:22Z")
Hemsworth plays the previously unmentioned identical twin. A powerful spell altered his appearance. Inspired by the James Garner TV Western [Nichols](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Nichols_(TV_series)). ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988/17 "2022-11-04T20:16:49Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > I think he could be accurately described as a poor man’s Chris Hemsworth. That’s the coldest thing I’ve read on this board in years. Besides, Luke Hemsworth has already been cast as [a poor man’s Chris Hemsworth.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkj4kMEqrLM) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988/18 "2022-11-04T20:17:38Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Besides, Luke Hemsworth has already been cast as [a poor man’s Chris Hemsworth.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkj4kMEqrLM) So, perhaps Liam is a poor man’s Luke Hemsworth? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988/19 "2022-11-04T20:18:19Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > That’s the coldest thing I’ve read on this board in years. Besides, Luke Hemsworth has already been cast as [a poor man’s Chris Hemsworth.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkj4kMEqrLM) Cold? I just realized there were two Hemsworths that aren’t Chris. I think at some point I knew this, but had forgotten. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988/20 "2022-11-04T20:21:02Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > So, perhaps Liam is a poor man’s Luke Hemsworth? 😉 That’s the coldest thing I’ve read in this board in the past 5 minutes. > [@Mahaloth](#): > > Cold? I just realized there were two Hemsworths that aren’t Chris. I think at some point I knew this, but had forgotten. Wow. There’s actually [three](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13831724/), and Liam is the only one who hasn’t been in the MCU. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-cavill-replaced-by-liam-hemsworth-as-geralt-in-the-witcher-tv-series/973988.md?page=2)