Page 288 - Guildhall School Media Highlights Coverage Book - 2019-2020

1 6 DECEM BER 2 0 1 9

CUL T URE & L I VI NG
Meet Anya Chalotra,

the Indian origin

lead actor in

Netflix's The

Witcher

BY RAD HI KA I YENG AR16 DECEMBER 2019

The new Netflix drama is touted to be the
next Game of Thrones. Here, Vogue speaks to
Anya Chalotra, the 24-year-old set to play a leading
role in the show

Dressed in an Oxblood velvet blouse and cranberry-hued satin trousers,

Anya Chalotra meets me over a cup of coffee at The Oberoi in Delhi. In

December, Netflix will release The Witcher, a cult fantasy drama based on

Polish author, Andrzej Sapkowski’s titular novels. Teeming with darkness,

dread, monsters and magic, the television series is already garnering much

attention, being touted as the next Game of Thrones. Starring alongside

Henry Cavill (who plays Geralt of Rivia) will be Chalotra, as the magnetic,

Yennefer of Vengerberg.

With hair pulled back loosely, Chalotra is disarmingly self-conscious. Yet,

there is something effortless about her—a gentleness to her swan-like

gestures, a warmth in her almond-hued eyes. The 24-year-old Brit of Indian