f.SHOCK: “Henry Cavill handled nearly 100% of the action scenes himself. I was practically… unemployed because of him.”.f

**SHOCK: “Henry Cavill handled nearly 100% of the action scenes himself. I was practically… unemployed because of him.”**  Adrian McGaw – the stuntman who worked with Geralt for 4 full seasons – suddenly exposes a truth no one dared to say.

Not stopping there, Adrian also reveals the jaw-dropping difference between Henry Cavill’s “original” Geralt and Liam Hemsworth’s new Geralt — a night-and-day contrast that’s sending the Witcher fandom into chaos…

In a bombshell interview that has set The Witcher fanbase on fire, Adrian McGaw, Henry Cavill’s longtime stunt double and one of the most experienced sword-and-sorcery stunt performers in the industry, has finally broken his silence.

For years, fans suspected Cavill was doing an insane amount of his own fighting, but no one, not even the show’s fight coordinators, ever put an exact number on it. Until now.

Speaking on the truth many on set apparently whispered but never dared say out loud, McGaw dropped a quote that is now spreading like wildfire across Reddit, TikTok, and X:

“Henry did almost all of his own action scenes — 95 to 100 percent. There were days I showed up fully prepared, padded up, swords sharpened, and he basically left me with nothing to do because he insisted on handling everything himself.

His dedication was borderline insane, and I’ve never met an actor as precise and fearless as he was.

Liam, on the other hand… to be honest, he uses stunt doubles so often that sometimes I can’t even tell if it’s Geralt on set or just another stand-in. The constant switching really takes away the weight and intensity Henry used to bring into every fight scene.”

The statement, first published late last night on a popular action-film podcast and quickly verified by multiple crew members who worked on Seasons 1–4, has already racked up millions of views and sparked furious debate.

Many fans are calling it the final nail in the coffin for their acceptance of Liam Hemsworth’s recasting.

McGaw, a veteran of Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, and several Marvel projects, is not known for running his mouth.

The fact that he chose this moment — just weeks before the first full trailer for Season 4 drops — to speak so candidly has led many to believe he no longer feels bound by Netflix NDAs or set politics now that Cavill has left the show.

According to sources close to the production, Cavill’s obsession with authenticity was legendary. He trained for months with quarterstaffs, longswords, and crossbows long before cameras rolled on Season 1. He demanded real steel (blunted, of course) instead of rubber props because he claimed aluminum swords “felt wrong” in the hand.

Fight coordinator Wolfgang Stegemann once joked in a 2020 interview that trying to get Henry to let a stuntman take a hit was “like trying to convince a wolf to let a dog fight in its place.”

McGaw confirmed those stories and went further: “Henry would do twenty, thirty takes of the same brutal Blaviken fight in Season 1 until his hands were bleeding through the gloves. Most actors tap out after three or four. He wanted every parry, every spin, every killing blow to be his.

And you could feel it on screen — that man moved like he had been slaughtering monsters for twenty years.”

By contrast, McGaw’s comments about Liam Hemsworth, while carefully worded, paint a starkly different picture.

Multiple reports from the Volume stage in the UK last year already noted that Hemsworth, still recovering from a serious ankle injury sustained during pre-production, relied heavily on doubles for even basic horse-riding and footwork sequences.

Insiders say the new regime has shifted toward more wire work and CGI enhancement — a cost-saving measure, but also, according to McGaw, a creative downgrade.

“The camera can tell,” McGaw said. “When Henry threw a punch, you felt the weight of twenty years of monster-hunting experience behind it. When it’s a double half the time, the rhythm breaks. The fights start to look like choreography instead of survival.”

The reaction online has been immediate and brutal. Hashtags like #ThankYouHenry, #NotMyGeralt, and #BringBackCavill trended worldwide within hours. A Change.org petition demanding Netflix reverse the recasting — already sitting at 180,000 signatures in 2023 — surged past 400,000 overnight.

Even some of Hemsworth’s defenders have gone quiet. While no one disputes that Liam is a capable actor with proven action chops (The Hunger Games, Expendables 2), the direct comparison to Cavill’s almost superhuman commitment has proven devastating.

One viral side-by-side clip comparing Cavill’s Blaviken massacre to early leaked Season 4 test footage has been viewed over 27 million times, with the top comment simply reading: “You can literally see the soul leave the show.”

Netflix has so far declined to comment on McGaw’s statements, issuing only a boilerplate response: “We remain incredibly excited for fans to see Liam Hemsworth’s take on Geralt of Rivia in the upcoming seasons.”

Behind the scenes, however, the mood is reportedly tense. Several stunt team members who worked under both actors have privately echoed McGaw’s sentiment, with one anonymously telling a Witcher fan forum: “Henry treated every fight like it was his last day on Earth. Liam treats it like a job.

There’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s not the same show anymore.”

Whether this explosive revelation will force Netflix to reconsider its creative direction remains to be seen. Season 4 is already deep into post-production, and Season 5 is being written as the final chapter.

But one thing is certain: Adrian McGaw’s unfiltered truth has ripped the Band-Aid off a wound that has been festering since the day Henry Cavill announced his departure in October 2022.

For millions of fans, Geralt of Rivia will always be the man who refused to let anyone else bleed for him.

And according to the man who stood behind him for four seasons, ready to take the hits that almost never came, that man’s name is — and will always be — Henry Cavill.