![]() Unfortunately for fans of Chalotra as Yennefer (who haven't read the books, anyway), The Witcher ended its first season without revealing what happened to Yennefer after she unleashed her fiery Chaos to try to defeat Fringilla and the forces of Nilfgaard. It's a testament to Anya Chalotra's performance that she was able to cohesively tackle such different periods in Yennefer's life. There was no confusing pre-transformation Yennefer with transformed sorceress Yennefer, despite Anya Chalotra clearly playing both versions of the character. In the process of losing her hunchback and the crooked jaw, Yennefer gained a lot of dark eyeshadow! The transformation was clear in her structure, her makeup choices, and even her hair. All those things supported me and an incredible team to have those conversations with and bring that to life. It's not the prosthetic of the back and it's not the mouthguard that I had in my mouth, but I was still hiding something behind that thick makeup I have on. She went on in her chat with CinemaBlend to explain how her look as post-transformation Yennefer continued to help her performance:Īnd then exactly the same for when she's transformed. Season 1 of The Witcher ended with Yennefer's fate very much in question after the battle at Sodden Hill.Īnya Chalotra was no longer in the hunchback stage of Yennefer's life by the time of Sodden Hill, however. ![]() While she was told that she would never regain her womb, which she lost in exchange for gaining her beauty and physical changes, and was unsatisfied with her life, she wasn't beaten. Yennefer survived, however, and she would go on to survive all manner of challenges that would have killed mages with less natural talent and drive. Yennefer certainly was miserable when she was first sold to Tissaia by the man who raised her, to the point that she attempted suicide. That helped the way I used my voice, the way I responded to people.Īlthough Anya Chalotra in her normal life doesn't face the same disadvantages as young Yennefer with her hunchback in particular, the prosthetic she wore for her character during that pre-transformation era of her life helped her get into Yennefer's headspace. The prosthetic, the hunchback, made me look at the floor and because I was looking at the floor I was a lot more self-conscious and I felt inferior and I was scared to use my voice. Automatically when you're in the chair for three hours before you go onto set, as the younger Yennefer, I am getting into the headspace of the character. I would have loved more time to develop and to discover what those inhibitions were, those restrictions were. Of course you have that huge physical demand of her in her childhood.
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