Henry Cavill: difficult to recognize the star of The Witcher in his first role (PHOTOS)

Discover Henry Cavill before he became the famous Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher. At just 18 years old, he landed his first film role in this drama unknown to most of his fans.

After having appeared in numerous plays, Henry Cavill got his first film role in the film Lake, unavailable for streaming. Opposite Emmanuelle Seigner, Joe Mantegna and Charles Aznavour, the British actor played Thomas Aprea, a young man whose parents were killed in an attack. He was quickly taken in by a family friend who raised him as his son. But, one day, the person who ordered the attack reappears. Thomas is then forced to go into exile in Italy with a former mafioso, who also treats him like his own son, but his wife Thelma seems to hate him. A role which allowed the actor to make his debut in cinema and he was unrecognizable as you can see in photos at the end of the article.

The Tudorsthe series that revealed Henry Cavill to the general public

If his participation in the film The Revenge of Monte Christo allowed him to make himself known, he had to wait until 2007, the year the series was released The Tudors so that the British actor is finally recognized. Alongside Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Henry Cavill played Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, a favorite of King Henry VIII of England. A series that he will remember all his life since the actor revealed a few years ago that he had had an erection while filming a sex scene. “This only happened to me once and it was very embarrassing. A girl had to climb on top of me, she had spectacular breasts, and I hadn’t positioned my equipment so that I couldn’t feel anything“, confided the one who apologized”a thousand times” after this incident.

Impossible mission, The Witcher…an actor at the height of his glory

Of Lake has The Witcher, Henry Cavill has come a long way. After The Tudorsthe British actor devoted himself to his film career by starring in The Immortals then in the thriller No Exit before getting the role of Clark Kent/Superman in the blockbuster Man of Steel, which marked the opening of the DC cinematic universe. After resuming the superhero costume in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice And Justice LeagueHenry Cavill played opposite Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible: Fallout, sixth opus of the cult saga. Nearly ten years after the end of You sleepNatalie Viscuso’s companion returned to television after landing the role of Geralt of Rivia in the series The Witcher, broadcast on Netflix. A role that he will not reprise in the fourth season of the fiction, leaving his place to Liam Hemsworth.

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