Video is turned off.
The account holder unmutes themself and a familiar voice is heard on the other end.
“Hello, hello.
Minnie Driver appears in ‘The Witcher: Blood Origin’ as Seanchaí, a shapeshifting storyteller.Netflix
I commend her Zoom handle.
She doesn’t know what I’m talking about until she looks more closely at her screen.
“Oh my God.
That’s my son,” Driver, 52, says, followed by a nervous laugh.
Apparently, he does this kind of thing a lot.
“You know what he did?
I still have that.
Driver has finally become a superstar in her now-14-year-old son Henry’s eyes.
The first was voicing Lady Eboshi among the English-language voice cast of 1997’sPrincess Mononoke.
The second one is forThe Witcher: Blood Origin, the four-episode prequel series toThe Witcherpremiering Christmas Day.
Henry and his friends are devouring all theWitcherentertainment.
She can’t quite believe it herself.
“Season 1, for me, really was like perfect television.
“But I really like the character.
Whowouldn’twant to be a shapeshifting elf?
You’ve got to be pretty hardhearted not to want to do that.”
As Seanchai, Driver becomes a narrator forThe Witcher: Blood Origin.
Her scenes were shot in Oxfordshire over a few days, always during magic hour.
Driver recalls carpets of bluebell flowers covering the filming location as the crew fabricated wintry effects with snow machines.
“You have this juxtaposition of spring and snow and a kind of timeless quality.
It was gorgeous,” she says.
It appears, though, that the producers have larger plans in mind for Seanchai.
Driver says there have been “speculatory conversations” about the character’s future.
“I think the writers at Netflix are very smart.
“I would love to do that, actually.
“The shapeshifting aspect is really fantastic.
“But also, I love the fact that this is an ancient storyteller.
That’s all actors really are.
We’re playing dress-up while storytelling, and there’s something very satisfying about how familiar that is.”
“I’ve known Henry since he was a teenager.
I love him,” she says.
“He has been the loveliest person, I can attest, since he was a young man.
He is divine.”
One of her teenage son’s friends asked Driver about the shake-up recently.
The recasting has caused an upset in the fandom, but Driver offered this kid a different take.
“We come from this tradition ofDoctor Whowhere the Doctor regenerates.
I think we need to look at it far more like it’s amazing,” she says.
So that was a really cool conversation with a teenager.
He was like, ‘I never thought about it like that.'”
I’m cool.'”
