How the Witcher Netflix series avoided its own Game of Thrones Starbucks moment

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The news cycle may move quicker than Roach on a diet of sugar cubes, but it’s hard to forget the discourse surrounding 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Game of Thrones season 8. No, not the ending. Almost everyone wanted to spill the tea about the rogue Starbucks coffee cup instead, the one that made its way into a scene involving Emilia Clarke’s Daenerys Targaryen. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Witcher Netflix series showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich has revealed that a similar error was spotted j🦹ust weeks before her show was due to go live🌱 on Netflix.

“God, we hope so!” Hissrich said when questioned about whether every accidental Starbucks cup was removed from her show. “No, I mean, it’s interesting. I was in VFX a couple of weeks ago, and someone’s keen eyes – we were watching something for something♋ else, and someone said, ‘Are those car headlights?’ And you’re like, ‘Yep, those are car headlights.' There are not a lot of cars in The Witcher.”

“So, you know, the good news is that b♑y the tಌime an episode makes it to air, hundreds of people have watched it. And so we hope that there is nothing like that.”

Hissrich also spoke to GamesRadar+ about the oft-used label for The Witcher as the ‘new Game of Thrones’: “The comparison is ultimately incredibly flattering, because at the end of the day, for a new television sh🥃ow to be premiering into a world, and for peo🔜ple to be saying, ‘I think it could be as successful or as popular as that show’ – that’s incredible.”

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