Anya opted out of a using a body double in sex scenes and did them herself (Picture: Netflix)

***Warning: The Witcher Season 1 Spoilers Ahead***

The Witcher’s Yennefer is definitely a woman who knows her sexuality, and is seen in numerous clinches with lovers during naked and sex scenes in the Netflix fantasy series.

It was definitely a task for actress Anya Chalotra, who plays the leading lady in the show who leaves mischief in her wake as a powerful mage.

But speaking to Metro.co.uk, Anya explained that she decided to take on the task herself, despite being offered a body double to do them for her.


She told us: ‘I had a body double for the sex scenes, and she was always there. Flora.



‘But I didn’t, I only used her for the first sex scene because I realised very quickly in that first sex scene that actually, I didn’t feel comfortable anyone else portraying Yennefer, because it’s still acting isn’t it?’

In the scene in question, pre-transformation Yennefer was seen in a passionate clinch with Istredd (Royce Pierreson), as an imaginary audience concocted by Yen was seen applauding as they watched.

After watching the scene unfold, Anya stepped in and later performed any other forms of nudity herself.

Yen and Istredd were seen having sex among the numerous sex scenes (Picture: Netflix)

‘I found [watching] that really hard, so if we were going to talk about the sex scenes then it would be how we were best going to film them, so that I was comfortable and you’d get you’d still get what we needed for the story to move on,’ she explained.

‘But with the audience, yeah, but the wide shot isn’t me. The intimacy between Yennefer and Istrid is. Those close up shots.’

Thankfully with the exception of that one scene, the team were able to avoid full nudity – with Anya going ‘semi-nude’ instead.

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‘We thought we could portray those scenes without any nudity,’ Anya told us. ‘Semi-nude, but not like the first sex scene where I had to use my body double.

‘The only things that I had to get nude for were the scenes, the transformation scene and other scenes which actually really did develop the story and really need to, you know…’

The Witcher has become a smash-hit in just a few short days following its release, with avid fans of the game and book series the show is based on flocking to see if the series could live up to the hype.

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Henry Cavill leads the cast as Geralt, a magical monster hunter for hire, whose one encounter with a genie-like monster called a Djinn resulted in his first meeting with Yennefer.

Soon, despite himself, he finds himself falling for the mystical woman, but she believes he wished it of her, so denied her feelings and abandoned him.

The Witcher is available now on Netflix.

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