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Our favorite Witcher, Henry Cavill, is ready to start chopping heads like its 1536 as he starts prepping for his role as Connor MacLeod in the Highlander <\/strong>reboot.<\/p>\n

Speaking with various outlets while promoting his upcoming action thriller Argylle, Cavill wouldn’t say much regarding his take on the character originally played by Christopher Lambert, only stating his training has started “in earnest.”<\/p>\n

“The training is about to begin in earnest. It’ll be a very long training process, and I’m very excited to get into it,” Cavill told Collider<\/a>. “There’s only so much I can tell you at the moment. I want to keep everything under wraps for as long as possible.”<\/p>\n

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Our favorite Witcher, Henry Cavill, is ready to start chopping heads like its 1536 as he starts prepping for his role as Connor MacLeod in the Highlander reboot. Speaking with various outlets while promoting his upcoming action thriller Argylle, Cavill wouldn’t say much regarding his take on the character originally played by Christopher Lambert, only stating his training has started “in earnest.” “The training is about to begin in earnest. It’ll be a very long training process, and I’m very excited to get into it,” Cavill told Collider. “There’s only so much I can tell you at the moment. I want to keep everything under wraps for as long as possible.” Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":725734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3457,9115,1323,9114,1855,207],"class_list":["post-725733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-chad-stahelski","tag-franchise","tag-henry-cavill","tag-highlander","tag-lionsgate","tag-movies"],"yoast_head":"\nCavill says training for Highlander is about to begin "in earnest" | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Our favorite Witcher, Henry Cavill, is ready to start chopping heads like its 1536 as he starts prepping for his role as Connor MacLeod in the Highlander\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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