...Fringilla is black now, though, so Anna Henrietta is probably too, if they stick to lore.
As for Yen... I don't see it yet. The actress is indian, and looks way too young and bland. Ciri and Callanthe are spont on, though.
...Fringilla is black now, though, so Anna Henrietta is probably too, if they stick to lore.
As for Yen... I don't see it yet. The actress is indian, and looks way too young and bland. Ciri and Callanthe are spont on, though.
Apparent press release from Netflix... indeed, Fringilla seams to be one of said "novices". It's possible they just reused a familiar name for a new character because they have no intention of using the actual Fringilla in the series, of course.
http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/...f-ciri-and-yennefer-345015/20181010netflix05/
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Last I checked there were no black people in the Witcher verse. If they wanted to introduce a minority culture there are many creative and valid ways to do it, but that would of course take genuine effort.
True... I mean, especially socreresses are supposed to be (literally) supernaturally beautiful - close to perfect, in Yens case - and styling can only do so much.
I dunno, since they announced the change of protagonist to Ciri, I was beginning to be sceptical of the show, and the casting reveal hasn't really eleviated that... I mean, Renfri is in, so they'll at least do the "Lesser Evil", which is a pure Geralt story, but I still am not convinced Netflix will not "Game of Thrones" this thing in some way, focusing too much on the royal cort of Cintra and Nilfgaard, and not enough on the actual namesake of the show...
Wow, a bunch of ideologues do exactly what bunch of ideologues does. What a shock... 
...but they SAAAID they'll respect the source material!Wow, a bunch of ideologues do exactly what bunch of ideologues does. What a shock...
Sorry...
Apparently, cultural appropriation is only bad when the wrong people do it... just as democracy!
Well, you can't possibly expect a group of 10 or so writers to bother with creating original character with believable backstory for the sake of their precious representation.
Nay, those"insightful" tweets about current political events aren't gonna write themselves...
I'm not too concerned about Fringilla. Yes it would have been nice to have accurate representation, but they were always going to push BAME actors in to the show despite what Hissrich said about keeping her political agenda out of it, that was never an honest statement. I just hoped the top 3 would be true to character because they are the story. A baby faced Indian as Yen just doesn't cut it for me.
Extremely Disappointed.
Extremely Disappointed.
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Am I the only one who thinks that the Witcher series cast is so disappointing?
Yennefer can't be interpreted by a child without boobs.
Come on.
Too much disappointing for me for all the cast.
Yennefer can't be interpreted by a child without boobs.
Come on.
Too much disappointing for me for all the cast.