Update: Latest rumor shows casting for a white Ciri | Original: Netflix looking for non-white actress to play Ciri in the Witcher tv series

[DonFerrari]

SpokenTruth said:

KLAMarine said:

That's understandable: a historical film for example would have such requirements and aptly so.

Is Ciri's skin color relevant to the story of Witcher?

Let's go back to point 1.

 

1. But that's irrelevant in a casting call.  The choice of the character and what they should or should not look like has already been determined.  It's a casting call.  Not a story development meeting.  That's already happened.

 

To expand further.  The choice of this character now having darker skin has been finalized and the explanation for such is not going to be given at a casting call.  The fans may want an explanation but a casting call is not the venue they will receive it from. It just isn't.  If it bothers you, contact the production company and ask that they provide an explanation for the change.

They actually haven't set anything except can't be white. So she could be thai, latin, african, etc, just not white. So how they decided the change in the story to make sense with anything but white is quite curious.