"He was using strange gamer words, like "Lore" and "Source material", what a weirdo."

Imagine calling someone a misogynist and then immediately blame him for not wanting to do shirtless scenes, lmao.

it's interesting that a man refusing to do shirtless scenes is super problematic and misogynistic, but when the woman who played danerys in game of thrones said no more nude scenes after season 1 everyone was like 'yasss queen your body, your rules'

He did rewrite a scene. Roach gets killed by a monster and the showrunner wanted to make a meta joke in the script. Cavill wanted to do something respectful instead and came back with a quote from the books. I think that speaks for itself.

Anyone who believes he was the problem after reading this going from "he's a misogynist and a gamer on Q anon levels" to "he didn't want romantic scenes" needs to actually touch grass.

"He refused to take his shirt off or do romantic scenes" The self report is amazing.

You ask me... He isnt the toxic one. Hes surrounded by toxic woman.

there is one thing gamers unanimously hate: incompetent teammates

"video game bro language" made me just imagine Henry finishing a sword dance fight scene and saying "oh that was poggers" lmao

Henry: "press F to pay respects" them: "that's so toxic! damn gamer."

From an article aerly this year: "When it came to addressing her co-star's attitude and conduct on the set of "The Witcher," Chalotra (Yennefer) revealed that Henry Cavill is "...incredibly professional, polite, brilliant, very experienced, clearly in the world of acting and being on sets that big, very experienced being a leader of a team with such grace." She went on to say Cavill's professionalism also benefited their close relationship as characters in the series, saying, "It's a real privilege to play alongside him, he was just so empathetic and his experience just helped in every conversation that we had." Summing up her clearly positive feelings about Cavill's on-set behavior, Chalotra said simply, "He cares about you; he cares about the show."" lol

and the accuser posting the allegations already deleted the tweet and privated their account. how stunning and brave 🙄

Imagine a male actor not wanting romantic scenes during the MeToo era.

After reading that the original script wanted to make fun out of Roach's death it's pretty obvious how incompetent those writers are. It was only thanks to Henry that that scene was changed into a serious moment.

Shocker he wanted to stay loyal to the source material

The worst part about this is that Henry Cavill never made any diss of the netflix witcher publicly or in any social platform (as far as i am aware). When he left the show he just said a very PR statement about it. Basically he stayed professional about the whole thing and never mentionned any conflict whatsoever. The only reason we believe he left the show because of the writers is because we easily connected the dots over 2 facts : he said once in an old interview that he wishes for the show to stay true to the books, a ex-writer of the show said that the current writers disliked the witcher books. The fact that they are trying to put the blame on Henry Cavill while he meanwhile never said anything about this whole "drama" is very telling of which side is acting more mature than the other...

Imagine the frustration of the one writer in that room. Repeatedly asking what the title of the show was. Constantly asking what monster will Geralt fight this episode. While the rest of the room keeps pumping out scene after scene concentrating on the supporting characters. Constantly trying to limit Geralt to a brooding hulk that barely knows what is going on and being a spear holder in HIS story. I’m almost positive he was annoying to them. The gall of him trying to make them write scripts that were loyal to the lore. All the while Caville was doing the same thing from the actor side. I don’t doubt they were seen as a coalition. If they want female centric shows perhaps pick IP with female main characters. But I suppose those just don’t get greenlit that often and a writer has to eat. This means they get jobs on shows they don’t really want to write for. Now they just change the show they are on. Much like gamer reporters that wish they were working for different companies just concentrate on the facets of the games that coincide with their own interests not the gamers they are supposed to be writing for.

It’s pretty despicable to get mad at Henry Cavill for wanting to give the fans what they want. It’s not his fault they can’t read the audience but they are already throwing him under the bus.

Man was asked to play a strong quiet type with shirtless scenes. Gets sexually harassed by the women he works with, asks not to work with women, remove shirtless scenes and get more verbal lines for Geralt. Shot down and told to shut up and take off his shirt... BUT HE'S THE MISOGYNIST....

people forget that Ian McKellen walked around the set of LOTR with the books correcting dialogue and arguing with peter jackson about lore inaccuracies. And it made the movies better because Ian truly had passion for the source material.

The sad part is that if these are true, we can see how hard Henry Cavill tried to save the Witcher series. Working with these types of people is unbelievable I would probably go crazy on the 1st day.

Update: the person responsible for pushing this narrative locked their account down and admitted that the story was untrue. Also apologized publicly in the header of the account. My guess is that Lawsuits suddenly dropped so they had to quickly retract…

He's so good of a person, they hate it. 😂😂😂 They hate him so much, they had to lie so hard just to get something. But, still failed.

I wouldn't believe this at all especially after Millie Bobbie Brown said how professional he was and that he set proper boundaries between work and personal with her. This is just insane. These people try to find flays in anyone.

Toxic feminism is also a thing, let’s not be sexist. Gotta keep that toxicity diverse.

I wonder if the "rewriting scenes" is referring to the time the writers wanted to turn Roach's death into a comedy scene and Henry refused to shoot it until they let him quote a part from the books and turn the whole thing into a heartfelt moment.

His current girlfriend is 33 and he is 39, he dates normal girls within perfectly appropriate age ranges and always has. And he has never been "that guy" lol, which is why their attempt to smear him is failing as miserably as they are.

They were given a multiple choice question test with every correct answer outlined in bold and filled in for them and they STILL fucked it up. Henry is probably one of maybe 10 people on planet earth who could blend the story of the Witcher games and The Witcher books in a perfect medium AND PLAY AS GERALT. I can only imagine that when she says "Video game bro language is not how you talk to coworkers" Henry literally said something to the effect of: "Hey I noticed in the script that I'm supposed to just stab the monster to death, but in the games you're actually supposed to use the Igni sign against it. It might be a little difficult but I think we can pull it off and it'd end up way closer to the games!"

Henry Cavil represent what the scripters most hate: a talented actor who knows the source material better than theirself.

"He's deeply addicted to video games". Omg I must be dead. There's crappy gamers of both genders, but that entire screed is so beyond suspect. I'm getting sick of these women (this one, the doxxing gal yesterday, Heard, etc.) making the rest of us look bad.

A great takeaway from this is that it sounds like Geralt finished scenes by saying poggers and that’s a hilarious thought

We didn't need more reasons to love Henry, this only makes me respect him more.

As a female gamer... this shit is lit lol. People are dumb if they think Henry was the issue..

Even the supposedly bad stuff makes Henry Cavill look like a genuinely decent human being. It's wild how perfect he is.

You need to make a follow up. This tweet was DISREGARDED literally by the tweet author. There’s a new tweet from her where she posts a “legal disclaimer” because I think she’s getting sued.

Just to be clear about the quality of writing these people want to put forward, as opposed to the original supposedly "inferior" stories... There's a scene where the Withcher's horse, Roach, dies and these great big compassionate champions of the weak writers, actually wanted Garalt to break all of his entire foundational character traits and make fun of the situation and Roach. Henry managed to bring to the scene the level of sincerity it deserved, and it became one of the best scenes in the entire series.

Funny how all of the female ACTORS raved about how helpful and considerate he was, always willing to take time out of his schedule to mentor the green recruits and show them the ropes when they struggled with anything.

I just love how Henry Cavill both looks like a Chad and acts like one, also. He seems so dedicated to the character and really seems to love the lore and just wants the writers to love and respect it also. You can't write something good if you don't have a passion for it and it seems like the writers don't have that passion whereas Henry does.

I was never too familiar with Henry Cavil, outside of superman, but the more i learn and watch interviews with him the more i like him. he just seems like a very wholesome and respectful dude.

Funniest shit is that you can believe every single word there and he still did nothing wrong and is in the right

I'm honestly so glad he left. These people don't deserve to work with him. Absolutely crazy how these people are even real.

This is ridiculous 😒. I'm a women and I love video games. I love playing FPS, RPG, dungeon crawlers, mmos, ect. Its insulting to me that people think it's all men who play games. If your making a movie on a game/book your should play or read whatever it is. I think its fantastic that Henry is a gamer and he did an amazing job in the Witcher IMO. Great take Asmond love your videos ❤.

Wasn’t there a director 3 or 4 months ago who directed a few episodes of Witcher say that the writers actively hate and refuse the source material and fought everyone who thought otherwise?

Wait wait wait, I thought the whole "gamer" thing was that we all look at women as nothing more than sexual objects, that being the main reason female armors in games are always designed with the "male gaze" in mind, and this show was being directed by a woman who had full license not to engage in such behavior, and she still wanted to go through with it. Meanwhile, Henry is an actual gamer trying to tell the actual story of the game, and he's the villain here? What's going on?

This just made me love Henry even more.

crazy how all henry has been is respectful about the show, and now because the fans are upset people involved in the show are trying to assassinate his character

I remember playing the first Witcher game back in 2008 and falling in love with the world. I started reading any of the books that back then had been translated to English and was even so desperate to read more that I started reading some of the fan translated books. I obviously played Witcher 2 and Witcher 3 when they released and eventually read all the books. So it's safe to say that I'm a huge Witcher fan. When the first season of this show dropped, I actually kinda enjoyed it, there were deviations but it was clear they were at least trying to follow the first 2 books and tell the short stories somewhat faithfully. However, I didn't like the second season much, very few moments from the books were kept, but rest was basically fan-fic and some of the story beats straight up upset me, because they clearly wanted to change shit for the sake of not following the books. Like turning Eskel into a Leshen (WTF). I'll watch the third season for Henry's sake cause he was clearly the only one who seemed to give a damn about the books, but after that I'm done with anything Witcher related Netflix churns out. The new Blood Origin show looks fucking abysmal too. These accusations clearly makes it seem like Henry was getting frustrated with how the writers were trying to rewrite the entire story and now they are just attempting to save face by trying to throw Henry under the bus. Fuck Netflix, honesty.

Imagine being excited for a role in such a way that you have all the lore and info memorized but then being told you're too much of a gamer and constantly be put down. I hope Henry gets into a franchise that genuinely appreciates him.

I don't understand how not wanting to do romantic scenes could ever be something to get upset at an actor for. If he's refusing to do it, it wasn't in his contract, which means he has absolutely every right in the world to say no and there is nothing you can do to change that or get your money back. Someone needs to teach these Hollywood women, especially the ones who try to preach about morals and how they're so much better than every one else, that no means fucking no.

If you read that entire thing with a shred of an Average IQ, it sounds like they were tying to make the Witcher about girl power and Cavil abs.

I wasn't a least bit surprised that Mr. Cavill is getting cancelled and character assasinated by everyone nowadays after having disagreements with the direction Witcher TV-show seems to be taking. I wish all the best for him in his new Warhammer 40k production. He is cool dude and I refuse to believe any of this BS.

I think the only way to talk to those people is to call them "deeply misandrist, toxic and other buzzwords..." because they clearly dont understand normal human language.

If anything she proved that he was right.

"Video game bro language" I work with a lot of boomer women at my job and im 23 F, you say any modern words around them that aren't in mainstream media they will always think of what you said like this and get pissy that they don't know what it means, even if it is used casually in a conversation. This is 100% a opinionated perspective take on Henry's behavior

If a woman was fired for refusing a nude scene (with a writing team of men and a showrunner who is a man)? It's the team that would be publicly shamed.

I work in theatre. What you've read is how directors talk about actors who care about the source material more than the director wants to sell it as wide and as cheap as possible.

What I have noticed in my decades on this planet interacting with other people, is that very often the ones making a huge deal about being disrespected are often the ones disrespecting others. And the person they complain about is just having a normal reaction to an enormous amount of their bullshit.

Their attempts to paint him negatively only makes him more based. Toss a coin to your gamer bro

Here is the thing, ACTORS HAS CONTRACTS, similar to how you would apply to a job and SIGNING THIS LEGAL PIECE OF PAPER ARGREEING TO DO STUFFS ON THAT JOB. So if he left and there is no complaints or legal actions from the writers or his employers, meaning THEY broke the contract first somehow! This is a million dollars series worth of damage we are talking about, I believe that if Henry violate their original contract, in any sense of the phrasing, he would have been sued. Which means he DIDN"T which means this is just kids rampaging about how grown ups take away their toys because they are being naughty which is really sad due to the fact that they are supposed to be "grown-ups successful directors"

It sounds like Henry Cavill just wanted to stay faithful to the books and they weren't having it.

So? What im getting at, is that Henry was trying to steer the show in the correct direction and the 'women' writers didnt like it because they want to 'make it their own' in a way fans do not want

Nah, he’s absolutely being a gamer. He quit the game because his teammates were trash.

Henry: - "Please let's make this scene not so bad as full first season" women team: - " NOOO we wanna do this our way - way TO HELL" :D

Henry not wanting to do shirtless scenes makes a lot of sense. In an interview, talking about his bath scene in the first season, he talked about how he had to dehydrate himself so his skin would be tighter. He said that he would have 1.5L one day, 0.5L the next, and then none on the day of the shoot. He also said that by the end of that, he could smell water nearby. That's not healthy!

I bet that when he was using "gamer language" he was desperately trying to explain to the clueless writers how in that particular situation Geralt would be using *igni* instead of *ard* or something like that.

The "gamer talk" was probs just Henry talking about the lore lol

What this reads to me; Henry Cavill wanted to stay true to the source material of games and books (both of which hold their own canon). Showrunners got mad that Cavill took a stand, with him re-writing scenes to better portray his character in the proper light. Writers didn't enjoy the canon and kicked off a member of the writing team that tried to stick to the source material and gave a warning to Cavill. He didn't like that they warned him for just wanting to make his character true to who he is and sent a strongly worded message. Whether he quit or was kicked off wouldn't matter in this situation. And it was made all the worse by them trying to force him into intimate scenes and appear shirtless. Yet, as a respectful actor he chooses not to comment poorly on other people's demeanor and was probably forced to sign some sort of waver as well. But outlying forces come crawling through, trying to defend themselves from the Internet's immediate knowhow and spread disinformation to paint Cavill in a bad light.

Its concerning that a writer labelled as a "gamer" lost his job due to HR complaints without giving any more reason, our mans might have lost his income because how dare he be in a gamer alliance, that just isn't acceptable in this economy

You know it's bs when they said "it's like watching someone get brainwashed" as game playing was new. Cavill famously said he missed Snyders call to offer superman cause he was raiding in wow. He's always been a big gamer.

It came from a website that has in its site description that any stories from there are false or simply guesses

So much respect for Cavel. Mans was standing up for the fans so much that he sent in his resignation. Actual GIGACHAD

Wasn’t there an article that one of the writers that was a woman said Henry was great to work with contradicting this whole article not that this article had any proof anyway but still

The person who posted this on Twitter literally went into hiding, turns out you can't post something full of allegations without sources or proofs, who could've known.

Emilie Clark from GOT said I don’t wanna do romantic scenes anymore after her first season and they respected that

On the internet and in the public eye, I have noticed the following guideline for determining if a disagreement will be labeled misogyny or just a disagreement. For all arguments where the number of x chromosomes is greater than or equal to two: If the sum of x chromosomes is even? Disagreement. If the sum of x chromosomes is odd? Misogyny

10:29 “he made a weird alliance with another gamer” so in other words he made a friend

Bro, the gamer friend of Henry got ganged up on by HR and removed from his job. They were trying to isolate Henry. So obvious.

For those that don’t know the gamer that also got fired due to “HR complaints” was the guy that blew the whistle on them and is now working on the year 97 X-men animated series he said specifically if you want to work on this X-men project you have to respect the source material cause on the Witcher set the material was mocked and ridiculed

The people working on this show honestly baffle the mind. How can they be THIS out of touch?

It’s unreal, he didn’t do anything sleezy towards them so they’re upset that he wanted to keep it canon so they had to try and destroy his character still💀

"Look, this script is shit" "So YoU hAtE WaHmEn?"

The article was already pulled down as baseless, unchecked. The source itself says (on their homepage I believe) that they use rumours and conjecture. So the story barely lived 24 hours before being revealed to be false.

Sounds like someone in the crew (showrunner?) had a massive ladyboner for him and decided to go all kinds of batshit crazy on him and subsequently any other man in sight through misogynism, once Cavill (hired for his looks) refused to do more Romance scenes, in a show that was started by people who don't have a first f*kn clue about the game and just saw a few "strong female characters" and thought let's do this show and have too much money so they got it. Sounds unfair? Uneducated guess, smearing, disinformational, manipulating? Well...

Some parts of this really come across like this woman in charge was thirsting after him to an uncomfortable level and just couldn't handle him being disinterested very well.

Henry clearly deserves a ton of respect for sticking to the source material of where the whole franchise originates from and trying to make the wish a reality. Yet then you get hollywood who clearly doesn't care about what people want and pushing their agendas thus ruining what made something amazing in the first place, to become immersed and enjoyed the character. The accuser making allegations probably never read the books where cavill surely reads the audience knowing facts from fiction

I think why he doesnt want to do shirtless scenes isnt because its sexual but more that preping for a shirtless scene is too taxing for him physically.

Henry is just becoming more and more likable. Dude cares about his job, tries to get involved and immersed in the lore, looks like giga chad, has genuine "goals" physique, he wanted to play Geralt so much he went on a campaign to get the role. The show starts ok and promising, isn't as good as books but they have time to make it better and flesh out the characters. You hear that Henry is asking for more ways to show Geralt inner monologue and his complexity and the nature of his character, then you hear he is parting ways with the show, then there is the leak where people claim writers on the show make fun of the books and not in a good way either and you remember that the show had questionable moments, then there is this. I mean... Something doesn't add up.

Imagine trying to slander someone and only making them look better. Cavil is a certified sigma. He gets his bread, paints his Warhammer figures, doesn't overstep his own or others boundaries. Straight Chad

All of Henry Cavill's behavior in this "leak" is so easily explained. We know he was frustrated because the directors wouldn't stick to the material. He tried to be faithful to the story, and the directors weren't having any of it. They're just painting him in the worst light possible to hide the fact that the directors were making the worst decisions possible and Henry knew this. I'm more willing to believe he didn't want shirtless scenes or romance because the entire cast of women would just ogle him.

SONEONE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE save this vid. When it collapses and the "why did it fail" interviews come out, show this vid again. WTF man Bill Burr, right again: "Hey women, if you're so much better than US, why do you wait until we already built everything, then try to take over?"

5:50 I dunno if this counts but me and the boys pretty much always say "Arite see ya, gg" whenever we're goin home or whatever

"If we can't have Henry, then nobody can."

Some of this is hard for me to believe, especially when they start using "gamer" as a serious condition of sorts (jokes aside). It's some serious 90s "moms against video games" vibes thrown into some other bullshit.

This type of writing just shows how right he was to leave and how insufferable everyone there must have been.

If you ever want to undermine someone you can just acuse them of heinous shit w no basis, since questioning accusations, no matter how ridiculous, isn't allowed anymore

The person who made these accusations has made a.... "legal disclaimer" and retracted her statement I'm guessing Henry's lawyers reached out with some questions. Rumors can get out of hand rather quickly. There's a reason why people don't trust women when they come out with allegations such as "he was mean to me, thus let's pretend he is the devil now." That kind of behavior bleeds into actual cases of when women come forward with abuses. People tend to have a distrust of that because of stuff like this. HR departments are a bit too drunk on power and the people running them seem to have ego issues. I guess it wasn't enough for Henry to leave the show. They had to try and ruin him as a person too. Very petty stuff from people pretending to be saints

I really want this Warhammer project to do well so maybe we can get a MechWarrior/Battletech show going down the road. So much lore and awesome stories to pull from. Plus if you really wanted to tell a whole new story there is a lot of planets that don't have anything to do with any other story already told.

18:25 - Only actual racist I’ve been around is my Italian Grandpa. He was pissed to see my grandma and I were watching Lawrence of Arabia on TV…”I won’t have sand n*****s on my tv.” Is what he yelled at 10 year old me. And we never went back to his house…he died about 6 years later.

I need a few crucial Information to understand this: A) what's a Showrunner and why does it sounds like middlemanagment mixed with unemployable? B) why do they need teams of writers who work on set? What's the workflow here? Wouldn't you write and then act? Did someone bring a waterfall diagram and they somehow made it even worse? And just an aside: what does "gamer" even mean these days? I don't know a single person under 35 who doesn't play video games atleast semi regularly.

An actor with a mind of his own! What a refreshing revelation. At least Henry isn't a mindless drone, good for him!