season 3 may be as Geralt of Rivia, but there are plenty of new faces joining the blockbuster.
Among them is Mamma Mia, and W1A star Hugh Skinner, who is playing bon vivant Prince Radovid.
While Hugh hadn’t watched the juggernaut fantasy series prior to signing on the dotted line, he previously told Metro.co.uk what .
‘I love an outsider. Part of the draw with The Witcher was to play a gay character in a big genre fantasy show with a big audience. It felt like a unique opportunity and one I couldn’t really say no to,’ he explained.
Let’s delve further into who exactly Prince Radovid is in The Witcher and where you might have seen Hugh before.
Who is Prince Radovid in The Witcher?
Prince Radovid strikes up an electric connection with everyone’s favourite bard Jaskier (), while becoming embroiled in the drama surrounding the lead characters.
Hugh before the launch of The Witcher and shed more light on his character.
The actor explained: ‘He’s the younger brother of King Vizimir, the King of Redania, and he’s a bit lost. He doesn’t really have any purpose.
‘He drinks a lot and he gets embroiled with Philippa and Dijkstra, the Redanian in spies. He enjoys meeting Jaskier and is quite bewitched by him,’ he stated, stressing that Radovid finds himself a little bit ‘out of his depth’.
Who plays him?
The 38-year-old actor has been steadily performing in film, TV and on stage since he graduated from drama school LAMDA in 2006.
His first major TV role was in BBC parody comedy W1A in which he played Will Humphries, an inept yet endearing intern at the Line of Duty broadcaster.
Also on the small-screen London-born Hugh played Prince William in The Windsors, a spoof of the royal family, and had a small role in Fleabag, playing Phoebe Waller Bridge’s hapless boyfriend.
Over in Hollywood, Hugh bagged a role in the sequel to Mamma Mia! played a version of Colin Firth’s character in the first film and was also in the Anne Hathaway-starring Les Misérables.
The Witcher season 3 volume 1 is available to stream on Netflix, with volume 2 being released on Thursday July 27.
