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Freya Allan on playing the badass, brave, and vulnerable role of Ciri in Netflix's Witcher series

A defining character and an important role
by rawmeatcowboy
20 November 2019
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Freya Allan is behind the role of Ciri in Netflix's upcoming Witcher series, and it seems she was quite enamored with the character. Check out what Allan had to say about taking the character on in an interview with SciFiNow below.

"What I loved and I could see straight away even from the audition process is that she’d been written realistically. Nowadays we're seeing a lot of very strong female characters who are really badass, and that’s brilliant. Obviously Ciri is renowned for being a badass character, but what I loved about the way that they’d portrayed it in the writing is that it's not like she's just born and she's this amazing badass female character. You do see her be very vulnerable and cry and go through suffering and experience loss and at times be a little bit pathetic, because she’s had no experience of certain things.

And that jumped out at me, that they were portraying it realistically. You need somewhere for the character to grow, and you need a reason for why she becomes more confident, more badass. You do see that she's very strong through her vulnerability. The fact that she's so vulnerable and she's suffering and yet she continues on and that, to me, is bravery. She doesn't have to be totally cold and totally stern and be violent and killing people. It's a different kind of strength which I really like."

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