Henry Cavill on Doing His Own Stunts, Having Four Brothers, Football & The Witcher

[Applause] so weird but do you walk out you look like you're wearing one of those fake muscles suits like the little boys wear with all the fold muscles on them except I know they're not foam there are actual human flesh all right it's silicon hold on let me get yes they are actually even clever how you doing good man how are you very good to see you I'm doing well thank you how often do people bring up Superman to you and your daily life oddly ever since the movie came out I'm the first one to mention it you know that is truly remarkable I heard that you were do you celebrate Thanksgiving traditionally it's like not in the UK deliciously no we don't do that yes right right yeah when you're here you do if when I'm here I will find someone who's willing to take me in for food I see yeah that's the whole idea is that people come together yeah yeah and but in the UK this year the McQuarrie's invited me over for what we call the friendsgiving because they have their Thanksgiving on the Thanksgiving Day and they have a friends giving the night the McQuarrie's being the Chris McQuarrie the director of Michigan possible director of mission of Jesus were you guys talking about a new movie because I know you your character got killed in the last movie but I mentioned it possible you just pull the face right off and you're in it again right by God look there's alive you never know what's gonna happen you never know I took the full force of that hook on my moustache so you could just be mustache Lee know how powerful you can't kill Superman real easy you are a the I find this interesting because I almost never heard this to be the case a big NFL football fan yes which is unusual because typically when someone from England will come here they get annoyed when I say football referring to football cool right because soccer is called football over there but we know what the real football is it's but you are what fan of the Chiefs right I'm a Chiefs fan yeah how did that happen okay so I spent a lot of time over here obviously and I've been watching some American football I started to like the sport and I realized I had to choose a team and the only way I could choose a team was with something that was never gonna change it wasn't gonna be my buddy likes this team or whatever it may be so I figured the one thing which won't ever change in my life is the Superman aspect of it and I figured Superman's from Kansas the Chiefs people in Kansas support the Chiefs it just all had a soul you just kind of said like oh if Superman was football fan Oh he'd definitely be a cheapy be a chief serve an honor behavior probably right yeah wow that's weird I mean it's no different I guess then how anybody picks a team especially when they root for a team that's not in their city but that's a strange way to write and so you now have decided that this is the team you like absolutely yes and I like him a lot I like him a lot Chiefs nation is a good family you've been to the games there are kids I've been to one game out at Arrowhead yeah and that was an amazing experience well I don't know if you guys had me to a football game before or anything but this is we all have yes we're when I went down this is my first time right so went down pitch size if you guys call it as well pitch aside well we know we were on the field of yeah you're on the sidelines we went down on the sidelines and it was the flamethrowers big Jets of flame going into the sky in England we just you know the team's walk out sing a song if it's national or international rugby and and then we kick the crap out of each other right it's but it's a it's a display you have no flames over there there's no no explosions or no answer just have a whole bunch of rugby players and I love you guys who can't sing and it's a really close shot of each rugby blare singing the national anthem out of tune with the rest of the stadium like it's really you're there and you feel it and it's passionate but it's it's nothing quite like I would like to go to a rugby game I've never been to a rugby game and that seems like maybe other than boxing like the toughest but other than MMA like the most violent sport there could be it's pretty much like non-stop 90-minute MMA which is your rugby team I don't have a club rugby team i I just support England you supporting okay so all the British lines did you play rugby as a kid when I was a boy I played rugby cuz you have a bunch of brothers how many brothers do you have my four brothers and where are you in that in the wood are you the oldest number four out of five so the second youngest oh that's the worst spot to be in right no it is it you're not the youngest well let's evaluate all the spots because the youngest at least you're the youngest yeah you're the baby you've got something kind of different going on dove have mum protecting you yeah but it like if what were the Olympics you know the first one would be the gold medallist the second will be silver the bronze and then there's you just kind of standing off to the side disappointed no the eldest gets the toughest game 100% because they get all the discipline and it's advocates of us we're being it's all just free-for-all at number four you must then get really strong and tough because your brothers are your brothers all it built like you are we're all of a similar sized guys yeah I was I was smart I never I never picked battles with them uh oldest brother was one up was four years old of me he was considerably larger and incredibly strong Simon we he was so strong that we would make fun of him by saying Hulk smash every time you got angry there are a lot of superheroes I went down so even Superman is scared of somebody the lesson here all right we're gonna take break we come back we're gonna see a clip from Henry's new show it's called The Witcher it's on Netflix we'll be right back with Henry Cavill [Music] [Music] [Music] that is henry cavill in - which will be on Netflix starting December 20th you are designed a real sword that you use in there there was one bit where I use a real sword there yeah but that's pretty much like my family at feeding time it looked like you were doing the fighting in that's absolutely yes do you know stuntmen I do my best not to on this I didn't use a stunt men at stunt man at all and for me it was it's really important that the character exists within the action as well rather than just an acting scene and then you have an action scene which is completely separate than your back to the acting again it's really important that the story and the character travel through all of those things is that something Tom Cruise shamed you into not using stun memory I do everything you should do everything - yeah The Witcher I was thinking about it I was like oh I know I remember that and I remember seeing the books like as a kid there was a book series right yes it's this TV show is based off the books in the books yes yes and this was a very popular what is magic sighs deeply and huge a popular fantasy genre series of books bestsellers right did you read you read those books I had yeah so this was something you had a particular interest in being a part of yeah yeah how do you find out they're doing it like when you there's something that you're into you just you just hear it you can read on the Internet half the time is that right yeah that's how you found out we don't want it I'd see you're like oh yeah this is something do you have other things like that maybe you should put the word out like you know look were you really in see Rubik's Cube or anything it's really complicated not to play the key straight so these are books that you read as a kid and I get to play the carrot I didn't read the books as a kid I played the games they released a game called Witcher 3 in five years ago now played that game to the death really and then I heard us coming out I met the showrunner and that's when I learned there were books read the books and I realized I was missing out on the whole world of the stuff because I've been into the fantasy genre since I was a kid since um since before I could read my dad was reading me fantasy books and a lot of people are comparing to Game of Thrones right and there is one particular comparison I noticed just from just from looking at the clip tonight now there that's your character Geralt Geralt okay and and then you've got the policeman and you've got the same hair at the police yeah it's I I modeled myself call me Lisa or Amelia on set Amelia no eye contact I want to be a menu can we mother of dragons I'm fine well it's very good to see you that you were coming is called The Witcher premieres December 20th on Netflix Henry Cavill everybody they get hi I'm Jimmy Kimmel give back this holiday season buy my new book the serious goose I wrote it and drew it all the money I make goes to children's hospitals across the country and if you don't support that you are a box

Channel: Jimmy Kimmel Live

Views: 4,775,810

Rating: 4.9253888 out of 5

Keywords: jimmy, jimmy kimmel, jimmy kimmel live, late night, talk show, funny, comedic, comedy, clip, comedian, mean tweets, Henry Cavil, Tom Cruise, Mission Impossible, Kansas City Chiefs, Football, Rugby, Netflix, The Witcher, Superman, Game of Thrones, England, British

Id: oO-5dtlOyBM

Length: 9min 52sec (592 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 04 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/AidilAfham42]

Not enough rolling

[u/[deleted]]

Jimmy was briefed about the show 5 minutes before he went on air it seems

[u/WeDriftEternal]

Uh... that does not look GOT-quality...

It looks like a video game cutscene. Like straight out of a game. Not sure if intentional or not

[u/King_Allant]

I think I'm beginning to understand what people meant when they said this show makes Game of Thrones' fights look like drunk people hitting each other; that show's depiction of combat felt heavy and raw. This comes off more like a weightless, heavily choreographed and elaborate dance in which everyone must play along, with quick cuts making it difficult to tell exactly where things are happening relative to each other. The heft and impact of heavy weapons on heavy armor isn't there, and in fact the plate armor might as well not exist.

I get that they're going for a more graceful style for Geralt, but at least in this clip it appears to have been taken to such an extreme that it no longer feels grounded in any sort of physical reality.

[u/OrgasmicLeprosy87]

Look at everyone judge a entire show off a 20 second clip

[u/itsalwaysblue59]

Man I knew the comments would be a shit show like this. What is it about stories like this that makes people on the internet so picky/shitty? I’d get if the show was out or they released an episode, but this clip shows us nothing.

[u/ChrisRedfieldfanboy]

I watched this clip yesterday and my first reaction was that you can clearly see that there's no physical contact, you can tell that he's not hitting anyone for real. It pains me to say this, but it looks fake.

[u/[deleted]]

Did that give anyone else Catwoman Basketball Scene flashbacks. I mean it's not THAT bad but... yikes.

[u/AlteredMiles]

Half of those stuntmen were already falling before the sword hit them