Ciri probably won’t be white in the Netflix Witcher series

Another detail on the Witcher Netflix series has come around, this time on the casting call for Ciri. That call is still going out, so we don’t know who’s playing her, but we do have two pertinent details on what the folks behind the series are looking for. More specifically, they want Ciri to be young, and they want her to not be white. The casting for Crilla, the ‘The Lion Cub of Cintra’ reads “looking for a 16 or 15 year old BAME” - that’s ‘black, Asian, and minority ethnic’ if you’re not from the UK - “girl who can play down to 13/14. Must not be older than 18 years old.” Certain corners of the internet are preemptively upset about the possibility of Ciri not being white, though there’s little justifiable reason for it - unless you’re married to the idea that Polish fantasy requires Polish ethnicity across all its fictional nations. This comes via a big list of auditions from the National Youth Theatre, and the listing also gives a brief summary of Ciri’s role in the story.

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