#Geralt of rivia body actor trial
Yes, the Trial of the Grass has hurt him and perhaps created a different perception of who he is and what he has to do, but he's not emotionless."Īpart from the passive influence that his acting provided-"you can't collaborate on a project that requires creative input and not subtly influence each other"-Cockle explains that at times he also played a more active role in shaping Geralt and the world of The Witcher. The nature of the job that he has to do requires him to not give into his emotion. But the actor and the human in me knew there was more to it than that. At the beginning, I did what they wanted me to do. Right from the beginning, I never believed that he had no emotion. That's what encouraged me to give him more emotion. "If you've played all three games, you can hear that journey, I hope. "There was a journey with Geralt," he says. Doug CockleĪn audience member mentions that, despite the excellent writing behind him, Geralt is sometimes stereotyped as another in a long line of gravel-voiced videogame protagonists sculpted from congealed testosterone. They have to be someone you have genuine friendship with, and it doesn't feel to me like Yen and Geralt have that thing going on, it's more like a passion relationship than a friendship." My personal feeling about love is that the person you love and spend the majority of your time with should be someone who's your friend first and foremost, not just someone who makes you excited or whatever it is. Whereas Triss to me feels more like a friend. She's looking after him but not in a cuddly, caring way, more in a 'don't do that, you'll hurt yourself' way. It feels to me like Yen is trying too hard to be his mom. Because I'm not Geralt, Geralt is Geralt. "But I have to go at this from Doug, not Geralt. "Well, it's a divisive answer by nature," Cockle says, smiling at a Yennefer cosplayer in the audience. But in a game like The Witcher 3, built on choices in dialogue and action and even romance, what is the truth for Geralt? What is Cockle's image of Geralt? He starts to answer this when, true to anime convention tradition, he's asked to choose his favorite Witcher woman: Yennefer or Triss.