Doug Cockle says that playing Geralt again is like 'slipping into a warm bath': the voice is 'part of me now'
Doug Cockle is your favorite Geralt's favorite Geralt. He's been Mr. Rivia's voice in all three of CD Projekt Red's Witcher games and some spinoffs, becoming iconic enough through the trilogy that when Netflix's first live action show was getting ready to air, then star Henry Cavill said he'd accidentally imitated Cockle's version of Geralt instead of his own voice while filming a scene and it just kind of stuck.
Now Cockle is back in the saddle, taking Geralt's voice out for a ride in Netflix's animated feature length film The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep which premiered today on the streaming platform. I got the chance to interview Cockle last week ahead of the premiere and asked him if he feels at all like a legend riding back into town—to which he modestly demurred—but hearing his voice in a new project, this time beside some of the other live action cast like Joey Batey (Jaskier) and Anya Chalotra (Yennefer) does feel that way to me.
«It's always lovely to step back into Geralt's shoes,» Cockle says, referencing the various spinoffs (like Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales) and smaller projects he's done as Geralt since the launch of The Witcher 3's final expansion Blood and Wine in 2016.
«I describe it as—no pun intended—but it is like slipping into a warm bath,» though I think there's a good chance he might have in fact premeditated and intended that pun, just saying.
«This was a really nice project to be a part of because it was a little bit different,» Cockle said of returning to do an animated film.
«One of the challenges was that they wanted the anime Geralt to be more vocal, basically. So I had to take Geralt to some places vocally that I hadn't been asked to take him before. I remember at one point the vocal director saying 'can you just project that a little bit more?' and I said 'Geralt doesn't yell!'» Cockle said, laughing a little at his own lament. «I did my best Geralt yell and we'll let the audience decide.»
«The voice is a muscle so like any
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