THE WITCHER Star Freya Allan On Why She's Relieved The Show Is Ending With Upcoming Season 5

THE WITCHER Star Freya Allan On Why She's Relieved The Show Is Ending With Upcoming Season 5

We recently learned that The Witcher's fifth season will also be its last, and star Freya Allan has now explained why she's ready to move on from the show. She also comments on Liam Hemsworth's casting.

By JoshWilding - May 12, 2024 12:05 PM EST
Filed Under: The Witcher
Source: Inverse (via SFFGazette.com)

Freya Allan is currently being praised for her standout role in this weekend's new release, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. However, many of you will know the actress best for her breakout role in The Witcher.

The Netflix series lost Henry Cavill at the end of season 3 and, after Blood Origin bombed, the next two seasons will be shot back-to-back, ending with a fifth and final batch of episodes (plans for another spin-off, The Rats, have been scrapped). 

Talking to Inverse (via SFFGazette.com), Allan - whose role as Ciri put her on the map before being cast in the latest Apes movie - revealed why she's ready to move on from the Continent. 

"The Witcher definitely set up a lot for me, just in terms of being my drama school and providing me with a certain level of confidence," the actress said. "You also learn so many random skills. I’ve already done a lot of stunt work, I know how to ride horses."

"I was so kind of finished with it mentally. Initially the challenge was thinking that I had to do two more," Allan says of her feelings after season 3. "It's going to be the end of a massive chapter, which I'm excited for and ready for. But I think when I actually get to it, I'm going to be shocked at how much that hits me."

While the spin-off is no longer moving forward, Allan says she's excited to explore the Rats storyline which has now been incorporated into The Witcher's main series. "This is the storyline that I’ve been wanting and most excited me from the beginning of the show," she teases.

"Ciri obviously has changed throughout, but we really see a different Ciri in this one. By the end of the last season she's gone through so much that it's the last straw. And I think she kind of ends up trying to reside in this other version of herself, and...she kind of enters a zone of just, 'I'm just going to be brutal because I'm sick of the world being brutal to me.'"

As for how she feels about Liam Hemsworth picking up where Cavill left off, Allan says, "He's so sweet and just such a normal guy and so willing to connect. And I feel bad for him because he's had so much weight and pressure on his shoulders, joining a new cast as one of the leads and replacing someone else who's already done three seasons."

"It's a lot. It's been important for the rest of us to really make him feel that he's a part of the family."

The Witcher never really took off the way Netflix hoped, with fans mixed on that muddled first season. Seasons 2 and 3 received better reviews, but the long wait for them saw a lot of viewers lose interest.  

The Witcher season 4 is now shooting but likely won't return to Netflix until 2025. 

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RokoVII
RokoVII - 5/12/2024, 12:15 PM
“…Upcoming Season 5..” 🤔
Forthas
Forthas - 5/12/2024, 12:20 PM
I am not a fan of the Witcher as an IP, but I really liked Freya Allen, Henry Cavill and Anya Chalotra. I hope all of them do amazing things but in another franchise.
marvel72
marvel72 - 5/12/2024, 12:23 PM
After Cavill leaving the fans/viewers will to.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 5/12/2024, 12:23 PM
She was awful in Apes.
LSHF
LSHF - 5/12/2024, 12:28 PM
@GhostDog - Well, for starters, she didn't look anything like an ape, nor did she even act like one.

She was an awful ape.
marvel72
marvel72 - 5/12/2024, 3:16 PM
@GhostDog - She isn't much better in The Witcher.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 5/12/2024, 6:51 PM
@GhostDog - nah she had like 3 lines. she was fine. No worse than a Zendaya or Bautista. Not that that is saying much lol
DocSpock
DocSpock - 5/12/2024, 12:30 PM

Surprise lady. This show ended after 3 seasons.

And as an actor, you kinda suck.

Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 5/12/2024, 12:32 PM
@DocSpock - she is 775 and snnna
DocSpock
DocSpock - 5/12/2024, 12:55 PM
@Malatrova15 -

Hi Mal. I don't understand. I am very very old. I don't know all these code words, acronyms, and hipster speak.
Juggernaut2021
Juggernaut2021 - 5/12/2024, 1:49 PM
@DocSpock - I googled both and found nothing.
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 5/12/2024, 2:24 PM
@DocSpock - cant find my alprozalam prescription
CoHost
CoHost - 5/12/2024, 1:01 PM
Our new Zelda
Izaizaiza
Izaizaiza - 5/12/2024, 1:12 PM
Lost interest in the show after the first season, but The Witcher 3 might still be the best video game I've ever played. ,🤔
slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 5/12/2024, 3:37 PM
No Cavil, no show
Rosraf
Rosraf - 5/12/2024, 10:19 PM
I really liked Season 1, but they never really re-captured that mood, atmosphere and pacing. Season 3 was a bit better than Season 2 though.

I'm glad they are filming the last two seasons back to back so we hopefully avoid multiple years between seasons. More Netflix shows should consider filming multiple seasons at one time. It could really cutdown on the delay between seasons, which winds up killing interest in a lot of shows.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 5/13/2024, 12:54 AM
Her mindset reminds me of how Millie Bobby Brown feels about the final Season of Stranger Things, but I like that she acknowledges that it will hit her once they're done with Season 5 and no amount of mental state of maturity will get her ready for that moment. That's cool.

And I think the last time I read someone calling their first show that lasted a long while as "drama school" was Cameron Gellman who played Rick/Hourman in Stargirl, but at least Freya's show was allowed to keep going a reasonable amount unlike the former. ([frick] you Nexstar)

I wanna catch up with The Witcher and she was good in Kingdom, without her the main crux and the most tense moments of the movie wouldn't be possible.

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