There’s a lot of pressure.
Showrunner Lauren Hissrich tells EW she received a lot of feedback from viewers about Yennefer’s acts last season.
“‘How could you do that to these characters?’
Geralt (Henry Cavill) and Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) reconnect in ‘The Witcher’ season 3.Susie Allnutt/Netflix
‘They’ll never be able to forgive her.’
Well, that just becomes a story problem for us,” she says.
“How do two characters forgive each other?”
Anya Chalotra as Yennefer in ‘The Witcher’ season 3.Susie Allnutt/Netflix
Her mind immediately went to Beltane, a festival during which both Yen and Ciri were born.
Viewers will see the enchantress' “romantic reconnections” with Geralt play out here, Hissrich teases.
“She wouldn’t have put that on for no reason,” the actress says.
Given Baltane is a fertility festival, she adds, “That’s enough of a hint.”
“We’re in it now.
“Also the movements of magic, which have evolved for Yennefer.
We were looking into ways we could do that and make it more personal.”
That quite quickly and quite organically evolves into a real family dynamic.”
News of the switch came down after filming had already wrapped on season 3.
“All we knew were the feelings that we have when any season comes to an end.
It’s full of pride and love and accomplishment for what we’ve done,” Chalotra says.
“So, we stayed in that moment rather than anything else.
So, we’re gonna miss him a lot.
I wish him all the best.”
