![]() ![]() ![]() No matter how flawed he was - he would go on to steal his mother’s money - people would see that purity and beauty that he holds within himself.” To see that pure, childlike joy in this middle-aged man, I could imagine Gi-hun being himself after joining the game as well. The minute I saw Jung-jae play that scene, I was completely convinced that people were, for sure, going to fall in love with this character. “You see him being incredibly happy, holding and hugging the boy who does that for him. “There’s an early scene where you see Gi-hun when he has lost his money and he doesn’t have very much left to buy a gift for his daughter, so he goes to that place where you can pick the dolls in the machines,” the director said. Hwang cites another moment that convinced him the character would work. No matter how broken, how flawed he is, he still has that goodwill at heart.” So there were different adjustments I made, such as a scene where Gi-hun shares his fish with a stray cat. Jung-jae was concerned whether Gi-hun would be able to resonate with the audience. “So I was just happy to hear what he had to say, and was focused on listening to him and his concerns.”Īmong those concerns was down-on-his-luck protagonist Gi-hun’s sometimes ugly status as “an anti-hero. “When I first sent the script to Jung-jae, rather than having questions for him, I was just excited to hear he was interested because back in 2009, so many actors had said ‘No,’” says Hwang with a laugh. Despite the long road, both are still enjoying the success of the show Hwang conceived more than a decade ago and couldn’t get made for years. Next to him (with an interpreter behind them), Hwang says with a bit of fatigue showing that “Squid Game” took about seven months to shoot and they’d been promoting it for nine months now. He looks like the guest of honor at a yacht club function in a vaguely naval blazer. Although having recently just flown into America and back yet again on the eternally spinning hamster wheel of promotion for his series, he is gracious and put together. ![]() I believe the Front Man will be back too,” he said.Those who know Lee only as his Gi-hun character would barely recognize the dapper sophisticate sitting with excellent posture in a small greenroom. In April, Hwang Dong-hyuk confirmed that season two of the acclaimed series would return with two actors from the past season. But a few years later, with Netflix on board, Hwang managed to expand his initial film script into a series.įor the June 2022 issue of VF 's Awards Insider, Hwang, along with stars Lee Jung-jae, Hoyeon, and Park Hae-soo, opened up about the global phenomenon-and what to expect from its second season. “People were telling me that it’s too unrealistic.” It was too absurd, they said, and far too violent. Hwang Dong-hyuk told Vaniy Fair that when he first wrote Squid Game's script, no one was interested. Vanity Fair’s Awards Insider May 18, 2022 But with ‘Squid Game,’ Hwang Dong-hyuk turned rage and desperation into a radical hit-and he’s ready to put humanity back to the test. They told him it was too absurd, too violent.
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