History Trivia / TheWitcher2019

* FollowTheLeader: While the ultimate product is still its own, there's no denying that ''Series/GameOfThrones'''s runaway success is largely responsible for Creator/{{Netflix}} greenlighting a DarkFantasy series filled with gratuitous violence and nudity adapted from a series of novels.

* DuelingWorks: Came out one month after Creator/DisneyPlus's ''Series/TheMandalorian''. Both are high profile streaming fantasy shows centered around a drifting BountyHunter protagonist who inadvertently becomes the surrogate father of a child with special powers. Critics clearly favor ''The Mandalorian'', but audiences have thoroughly embraced both.

** Ciri is between 12 and 13 years old around the time of the fall of Cintra. Freya Allan, who plays her, was 17 during the filming of the first season, though being rather short (5'3") and petite, along with costuming and makeup, helped her look considerably younger.

* DyeingForYourArt: Henry Cavill, having already bulked up for Superman, did even more for this role. He went even further for the iconic bathtub scene, dehydrating himself for three days to thin out his skin and make his muscles pop.

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* TheCastShowOff: Joey Batey (who plays Jaskier) does his own singing.
** He also ''already plays the lute'', having learned how when he was playing Mark Smeaton in ''Wolf Hall''.

** Renfri is 18 years old when she met Geralt. Emma Appleton was 27 during the filming of the first season.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: In the Latin American Spanish dub, Geralt (Creator/JoseGilbertoVilchis) is Nobuyuki Sugo/Oberon, Jaskier (Luis Leonardo Suarez) is Kirito and and Yeneffer (Alejandra Delint) is Asuna Yuuki from ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline''. Likewise, they also worked together in ''Manga/KenganAshura'' as Keizaburo Sawada and Yurihama Fusae respectively.

** The initial plan was to have Ciri as the primary viewpoint character and narrator, even beginning with events from toward the end of the book series where she takes center stage. The show runners decided against it as Geralt would end up such a minor character that it wouldn’t make any sense to name the show after him.

* DarkhorseCasting: Outside of Creator/HenryCavill, Jodhi May and Creator/LarsMikkelsen, the cast is made of little known names, especially for some sizeable roles such as Freya Allan as Ciri and Creator/AnyaChalotra as Yennefer.

* DarkhorseCasting: Outside of Creator/HenryCavill, Jodhi May and Creator/LarsMikkelsen, the cast is made of little known names, especially for some sizeable roles such as Freya Allan as Ciri and Anya Chalotra as Yennefer.

* MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor: Marcin Czarnik (Ronin Mage) and Maciej Musiał (Sir Lazlo) reprised their roles for the Polish dub.

** In the Japanese dub, almost no one from the dub cast from ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'', the only game of the game trilogy dubbed to Japanese, reprise their roles here, including Geralt, who was switched from Creator/KazuhiroYamaji to Creator/HirokiTochi instead. Oddly enough, Creator/MiyukiSawashiro, who voiced Ciri in ''Wild Hunt'', voices Renfri in the TV series instead.

** In the Polish dub, none of the original actors from the video game trilogy reprised their roles.

* TheOtherDarrin: In the Japanese dub, almost no one from the dub cast from ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'', the only game of the game trilogy dubbed to Japanese, reprise their roles here, including Geralt, who was switched from Creator/KazuhiroYamaji to Creator/HirokiTochi instead. Oddly enough, Creator/MiyukiSawashiro, who voiced Ciri in ''Wild Hunt'', voices Renfri in the TV series instead.

* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: Anya Chalotra faced so much racist backlash about her character's RaceLift that she deleted her Twitter account. Triss' actress, Creator/AnnaShaffer, and several other Race Lifted characters faced similar abuse; prior to her casting, a rumoured casting breakdown lead people to believe Ciri would similarly receive a RaceLift, which lead to ''extensive'' backlash towards the showrunner, forcing her to inform people the casting breakdown was fake.

* TroubledProduction: The production of Season 2 was shut down due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. Creator/KristoferHivju, who's set to appear in Season 2, tested positive for the virus. In late June the producers announced that filming would resume in mid-August. Thue Ersted Rasmussen, who was slated to play Geralt's fellow Witcher Eskel, could not attend the rescheduled filming despite having already filmed some of his own scenes before the pandemic, resulting in his character being recast. Production had to pause again in November after four members of the crew tested positive for the virus and resumed after a two week quarantine.

* TroubledProduction: The production of Season 2 was shut down due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. Creator/KristoferHivju, who's set to appear in Season 2, tested positive for the virus. In late June the producers announced that filming would resume in mid-August. Thue Ersted Rasmussen, who was slated to play as Geralt's fellow Witcher Eskel, could not attend the rescheduled filming despite having already filmed some of his own scenes before the pandemic, resulting in his character being recast. Production had to pause again in November after four members of the crew tested positive for the virus.

* TroubledProduction: The production of Season 2 was shut down due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. Creator/KristoferHivju, who's set to appear in Season 2, tested positive for the virus. In late June the producers announced that filming would resume in mid-August. Thue Ersted Rasmussen, who was slated to play as Geralt's fellow Witcher Eskel, could not attend the rescheduled filming despite having already filmed some of his own scenes before the pandemic, resulting in his character being recasted.

* TroubledProduction: The production of Season 2 was shut down due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. Creator/KristoferHivju, who's set to appear in Season 2, tested positive for the virus. In late June the producers announced that filming would resume in mid-August.

* RoleReprise: Michał Żebrowski reprised his roles as Geralt from the [[Series/TheHexer 2001 Polish film as well as the subsequent TV series]], and is the only surviving original cast member to make a return.

* TroubledProduction: The production of Season 2 was shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Creator/KristoferHivju, who's set to appear in Season 2, tested positive for the virus. In late June the producers announced that filming would resume in mid-August.

* RoleReprise: Michał Żebrowski reprised his roles as Geralt from the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheHexer 2001 Polish film as well as the subsequent TV series]], and is the only surviving original cast member to make a return.

** Ciri is between 12 and 13 years old around the time of the fall of Cintra. Freya Allan, who plays her, was 17 during the filming of the first season.