Why The Witcher’s Yennefer Casting Was So Important: "These Worlds Were So Predominantly White"

The Witcher‘s casting director explains the importance of the process of who should portray Yennefer of Vengerberg. In the source material on which Netflix’s The Witcher is based, Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) is transformed with the help of magic. She uses her newfound beauty as a way of ingratiating herself among the higher classes, also growing closer to the lead character of Geralt as a result. The relationship is central to the streaming adaptation, as the bond between Yennefer and Henry Cavill’s Geralt continues to play out in The Witcher season 3.