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The Witcher’s director Marc Jobst has opened up about Henry Cavill’s exit from the hit Netflix series.

Before announcing he was stepping away from his role in The Witcher, Henry starred as monster hunter Geralt of Rivia.

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Speaking with Games Radar, Marc, who directed multiple episodes of The Witcher, suggested the “demanding” nature of filming the popular series may have taken a toll on Henry and therefore led to his exit.

“Well, look, Henry has done three series, these are demanding shows to make, you know, they are huge.

“Henry does every single beat of his stunts, he won’t even allow a hand, if you’re doing a close-up of a hand grabbing a sword, it has to be his hand,’ Marc explained.

“So, normally, what you do is you bring in a double, Henry will go off and shoot some other scene in which he’s in somewhere else, and you get somebody else into the hand, so that you don’t have to bother your number one.

“Henry won’t do that, and as a result of that, the results are extraordinary,” he added.

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Marc went on to compare working with Henry as “working with an incredible athlete” before noting the two episodes he worked on in the first season were filmed in four different countries, adding Henry spent weeks rehearsing gruelling sword fighting scenes.

“That’s draining on your number one, so after three series, I feel, ‘Okay, he’s brought the show into being, and if he feels like he’s done what he can, I trust him,'” Marc continued.

Marc then praised the star’s extreme dedication and “focus that he has,” and shared that having quality in an actor “is a gift to work with”.

“We all want to work like that, we all don’t wanna make something that’s good, we want to make something incredible,’ he admitted.

The Witcher is available to stream on Netflix.

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