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I mean, that has become sort of a calling card of mine. I am always the first to champion diversity in all its glory. One that springs to mind was the character of Yennefer on “The Witcher.” Lauren Schmidt Hissrich is the showrunner and we work so well together and she’s so open to conversations. In the book, she’s described as the most beautiful woman in the world. This was a few years ago and I’d like to think things have changed. But when you think about people’s unconscious bias – especially in the fantasy world, it felt like these worlds were predominantly white. And I remember saying, “I feel like we need to challenge what people think of as the standard of beauty. And having a woman of color in this role does incredibly powerful things to the people watching.
You cast Anya Chalotra in the role, was she someone you were familiar with?
Anya had graduated not long before she started on “The Witcher,” it was one of her first roles. I think I was the first audition she had out of drama school and I knew she was special. I knew we would work together, I just had that feeling, like our journeys were somehow entwined. I took Lauren to see her in this show set in India and she was telling these stories about the history of India. And there was a whole process – we did chemistry reads with her and put her with other actors in different scenes.