Henry cavill, star of the television series The Witcher, revealed that during the filming of the second season of the show Netflix suffered a terrible injury that endangered his career and his role as Geralt of Rivia. The actor’s confession comes with less than a month to go before its premiere in December this year.
Cavill is an actor who in most of his roles has always had to maintain his physique to execute risky action choreographies. But when he was recording the second season of the witcher, an accident occurred which, as he himself recounts, he thought could lead to the end of his career.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Henry Cavill and Lauren S. Hissrich (showrunner of the fantasy and action series) shared some details of the accident that occurred in December 2020.
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How was the Henry Cavill accident?
Cavill was in a forest performing one of the many action scenes that his character, Geralt of Rivia, has when he suddenly felt severe pain in the back of his knee. The actor retired to his dressing room, and there he learned that he had suffered a hamstring tear.
“I remember Henry stopping short and wondering if he had tripped or hit a stone”, Lauren S. Hissrich said in the interview, who after seeing what happened approached the trailer of the protagonist of The Witcher to see how he was.
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The actor’s response was very clear: he was in a lot of pain. “I was very lucky that it wasn’t a complete hamstring detachment,” Cavill said.
The hardest thing for Henry Cavill
Despite how sore he was and not having recovered 100%, Henry Cavill decided to return to the set of The Witcher to end the second season. The result? Pain, complications and a reflection.
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“I wanted to do more for the production. I know how important it was for them to finish things “The 38-year-old actor, who rose to fame thanks to his role as Superman in the Zack Snyder saga, said in the interview.
Cavill said that it was very difficult for him to be able to record while he was injured and that he had to find a balance between pushing himself and taking care of himself so as not to harm his work. “It was my worst moment in the past year on a professional level”he explained.
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