Eamonn Farren has spoken about his new creepy role in Netflix’s The Witcher (Pictures: Netflix/BBC)

The Witcher is one of the most anticipated new series of 2019 – and star Eamon Farren has revealed that we’re in for one hell of a ride.

Eamon, who has recently graced our TV screens as the creepy and damaged Alexander Cust in The ABC Murders, has landed a lead role in the upcoming series.

Speaking to Metro.co.uk about the new role, he said: ‘It’s all started which is really exciting. I play Cahir, who is a knight – a dark force, I guess. He appears in the books as a true outsider in a sense, especially to a character called Ciri. He’s sort’ve the stuff of nightmares for her.’

The complicated character of Cust kept us on our toes across Christmas (Picture: BBC)

‘He’s representative of something very dark and destructive for her, which, you know, is always very fun to play,’ he added.




The Australian actor was juggling playing Cahir with taking on the role of Cust, who left viewers retching across the Christmas period thanks to his desire to have heels buried into his back and acting as outsider in the dark retelling of the Agatha Christie story.

Prior to landing his role on The ABC Murders, Eamon was seen playing the horrid and twisted Richard Horne in the reboot of Twin Peaks.

Henry Cavill will be leading the cast in the new fantasy series (Picture: Netflix)

‘I’m sensing a theme!,’ he laughed. ‘I’m just a big outsider that goes to America and then to England and just sort of tracks these sorts of things! The darkness. And then of course I try to bring the beauty within the darkness to them.’

‘I was actually auditioning for The Witcher while I was shooting ABC so I’d get on the train from Leeds on my days off and I’d kind of audition for it, so it was all happening at the same time,’ he explained. ‘It was kind of wonderful but kind of also…I was already in the headspace for this kind of vibe.’

Henry Cavill will lead the cast of The Witcher as Geralt of Rivia – a monster hunter for hire and one of the few remaining witchers in the land.

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A witcher is a group of hunters who develop supernatural abilities to battle beasts, but as Geralt soon learns, monsters aren’t always the real beasts in this tale.

In the canon of the story at least, Cahir is a knight that joins Geralt on his quest to help find Ciri – however their interactions have left her frightened and against him.

Based on the book of the same name, The Witcher has since been made into an RPG computer game as well as the new series for Netflix.

The Witcher will be available on Netflix in 2019. The ABC Murders is now available on BBC iPlayer.

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