Freya Allan Interview: The Witcher Season 2 | Screen Rant
The Witcher season 2 premieres December 17 on Netflix and continues the adventures of monster hunter Geralt (Henry Cavill). The new season of the hit Netflix series sees Geralt taking Ciri (Freya Allan) to his childhood home of Kaer Morhen to train as a Witcher. The Witcher season 2 promises to develop the relationship between Ciri and Geralt, who were brought together at the end of season 1, as well as delving into the history of Ciri's bloodline.
Screen Rant spoke to Allan about her character's growth, her relationship with Geralt, and growing powers in The Witcher season 2.
Screen Rant: How do you view the relationship between Geralt and Ciri and will the themes of found family echo throughout the course of the season?
Freya Allan: It's ever-changing, ever-evolving through this season. Obviously, Ciri's coming into this season carrying everything she's experienced from season 1. So her trust in people is limited.
Also, she's experienced so much about herself within that time. She's coming to the season, holding that with her, which I think, immediately puts up a wall between her and Geralt, in terms of her opening up. You see glimmers of it as time goes on. There's also that element to their relationship with the fact that she wants to become a witcher and Geralt is resentful of that because his aim is to protect her. They're navigating that push and pull dynamic, which they do eventually reach a point where they build that trust and they become a really great team.
Ciri goes through a ton of character development this season and she gets a lot more physical, especially with the action. Can you talk about diving into that a little bit more?
Freya Allan: I've waited so long to do it, that I was just more than happy to spend hours in the stunt department. I loved it so much. I learned the basic sword work, got to learn some choreography at the start with daggers, and so doing all that helped me when I was going into the scenes where Ciri's training. The way I was training as Freya completely paralleled Ciri. I wanted to do as much as I could all the time.
I was always asking on days where we were filming scenes with monsters or fights against people, I was, "Can't I just do this? Can't I just chop its leg off or whatever?" I wasn't allowed to, because they're trying to leave stuff for other seasons. But yeah, I absolutely loved it and I waited so long to do it that I loved every second of it.
Now, how has Ciri's power evolved, and how does that shape her relationship with Geralt as the season progresses?
Freya Allan: She comes into the season very fearful. It's her main fear is this power she possesses because she doesn't understand it. She doesn't understand where it's come from. She doesn't understand its power. She doesn't know the extent of its power and it's all terrifying to her. She's killed people without meaning to, because of it; I think it's that thing that's always with her that she's afraid of, even in terms of she's having an argument with Geralt, maintaining that thought of, if I explode too much, I could literally explode. That was definitely an interesting element to play with that idea of this power in her that could literally, that she's terrified of.
But then, Triss [Anna Shaffer] is introduced into the story and she begins to open up to Geralt. And they're opening up with one another and she's revealing that she has this power. And I think, then, it becomes more of an idea of, okay, I'm going to tackle this, with the help of Triss. And then a lot ends up happening. But, Yennefer [Anya Chalotra] is also a crucial element in that for her, because she provides her with that example of how having power could be something beautiful and very useful, rather than something as terrifying as it seems to her.
The Witcher season 2 premieres Friday, December 17 on Netflix.
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