“I needed these struggle scenes at first of the journey to really feel reactive. It’s an opportunity for him to get out his frustration. Sure, it’s directed on the proper individuals, however it’s nonetheless not precisely how he would usually react in that scenario. Being in that susceptible, pissed off place that he’s in when it does get to that place of friction and rigidity or a spot the place he can shield others, I feel it’s a little bit extra aggressive than it often is. It’s brutal.”
It helps that Hemsworth is taking up this position at a second of radical change for the character, when he’s primarily required to be siloed off from the sequence’ different remaining leads. However as an alternative of leaning into Geralt’s conventional loner standing, season 4 thrusts him alongside the ragtag group often called his hansa, who in the end change into one thing of a discovered household for a person who lengthy prided himself on by no means getting concerned with others.
Bard Jaskier (Joey Batey), archer Milva (Meng’er Zhang), former Nilfgaardian commander Cahir (Eamon Farren), dwarven adventurer Zoltan (Danny Woodburn), mysterious vampire Regis (Laurence Fishburne), and returning good friend Yarpen (Jeremy Crawford) all convey completely different abilities and skills to the group as fighters and heroes, however their most essential contributions may be the teachings about household and humanity they educate Geralt alongside the best way.
That is maybe nowhere extra obvious than in Geralt’s interactions with Regis, an enigmatic barber-surgeon and centuries-old vampire who is aware of exactly what it’s to be one thing each different and alone. On paper, Regis could make for an unlikely mentor for a person like Geralt, however there’s actually one thing that speaks to him about this outdated soul with a thinker’s spirit who has seen, survived, and maybe even managed to forgive himself for a lot. Even when he’s a vampire.
“I feel that there’s this very fascinating connection between the 2 proper after they meet,” Hemsworth says. “Geralt is thrown by this bizarre form of feeling of belief in direction of this individual, and finds himself opening up and accepting considerably fairly rapidly and reluctantly, as a result of that’s the best way he would cope with anybody. It takes a little bit time for Geralt to get to that place.”
As for his new vampire bestie, Regis merely sees a kindred spirit, regardless of their variations in origin and (technically) species, and is without doubt one of the few who’s keen to see him as one thing greater than the monster he’s typically known as to change into.
