Geralt of Rivia Voice Actor Doug Cockle on More Witcher Games, His Netflix Film, AI, and More
ign.comThe Witcher voice actor Doug Cockle has voiced Geralt of Rivia for nearly two decades, and will soon expand beyond video games to voice the White Wolf in upcoming Netflix film Sirens of the Deep.
In a new interview with IGN, Cockle discussed this new role alongside his thoughts on The Witcher Remake 18 years after he recorded lines for the original, the rise of artificial intelligence in the video game industry, and more.
Check out the full interview with Cockle below, which also includes the voice actor's favourite Geralt moments and even his best theories on what The Witcher 4 (codenamed Polaris) is actually about as it moves beyond Geralt.
What is it like having been Geralt for all these years, from when the IP was practically unknown beyond Poland to today where it's a household name?
Doug Cockle: It has been a blessing, really. The joy of it has been the journey, because as you pointed out, when The Witcher video game first started, it was a no-name developer making their first game. The Witcher wasn't really known. The books weren't really known beyond the Polish and a few other eastern European language book readers. So people in the west didn't know anything about it.
I've been on this journey with CD Projekt and with the fans as well, where it was just this kind of wonderful unknown world created by this Polish author, who was known better for other things. And then gradually, it's just become this whole thing. I remember, I think it was 2016 or maybe late 2015, when a journalist first approached me about The Witcher.
No one had asked me about it except for a few hardcore game students, because I was teaching at the time. I used to run a BA honours acting course here in Bournemouth, and I was the course leader, and
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