Freya Allanfelt a kinship with herWitchercharacter Princess Cirilla, a.k.a.
the Lion Cub of Cintra.
Both of them have wanted to get in on the action, but both were held back.
Freya Allan’s Princess Cirilla is ready to start her training in ‘The Witcher’ season 2.Jay Maidment/Netflix
“But unfortunately, I’m not allowed to do that.
So, I have a bit of Ciri in me.
However, most readers start withThe Last Wish, a collection of short stories that precedesBlood of Elves.
Freya Allan’s Ciri and Henry Cavill’s Geralt at Kaer Morhen in ‘The Witcher’ season 2.Jay Maidment/Netflix
Therein lay Allan’s confusion.
I was really quite sad about that,” Allan says.
Allan gets those scenes in the show’s second season.
“I was always asking to go in before we even began filming.
I remember they would walk in and I’d still be there.
They’d say to me, ‘You literally live here at the moment.'”
Learning to wield a sword felt like dancing to Allan.
She began drilling the basic movements she needed to know to pull off more complicated gestures.
“The first day was just strange choreography with a dagger,” Allan recalls.
The action still serves a storytelling purpose.
She’s terrified of it and, says Allan, somewhat in denial of it.
That’s her way of escaping what she’s experienced so far.
Geralt, however, is like Ciri’s anxious surrogate father, scared to let his daughter grow up.
A big part of season 2 will showcase these two strangers getting used to each other.
“To me, these are some of the best things we have when season 2 opens.
Spoiler: They do eventually, but it’s a really long road for them.”
Allan thinks that dynamic reflects her own relationship with Cavill.
The pair hadn’t worked together much in season 1, apart from that final moment.
Now they find themselves scene partners throughout much of season 2.
And that was lovely."
The Witcherseason 2 is streaming now on Netflix.
Watch the trailer for it above.
