Netflix’s the Witcher officially has a trailer, but if you want to hear the behind-the-scenes thoughts of actor Henry Cavill, showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, and more, you’ve come to the right place. The cast and Hissrich joined IGN to discuss the making of the show, as well as what similarities the show has to the best-selling RPG games.

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“For me personally, it'd be like playing another run of the Witcher 3 but with a completely different skin on,” Cavill told IGN. “That I think would be interesting. I've played it through a number of times now, and it's like OK, cool, I've done it, I've seen it, and I still get that enjoyment of playing it through, but what if I could play it slightly differently. Then yeah, this is kind of what it is for me when you're doing the show. Yes, it's Geralt of Rivia, the Witcher, but he looks like me now. For me, that's an interesting thing. It creates a freshness to it, because the themes are still very similar."

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When asked how she approached crafting the show, Hissrich explained the careful balancing act of managing the Witcher’s epic main storyline involving Geralt, Ciri, and the dangerous times they live in with the more small-scale adventures that Geralt is frequently involved with.

“I think part of any television show is those epic journeys, and everything you see building over a season and hopefully an entire series, but you also have to dig into individual episodes and really love the stories you're doing there,” Hissrich said. “All of our characters have sorts of side journeys, and we wanted to take the space to actually get to know them as characters, their relationships with other people, and eventually their relationships with each other. That's just as important to us as epic quests or killing monsters, so we definitely left space for that.”

You can check out the rest of the cast’s and showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich’s behind-the-scenes thoughts in the video at the top of the page, and make sure to check out everything we know about The Witcher coming to Netflix.

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