Thanos star, Choi Seung-hyun, breaks silence over fan backlash to his casting in Squid Game Season 2
Season 2 caused a lot of controversy behind the scenes as Thanos actor Choi Seung-hyun had reportedly been blackballed by the Korean entertainment world before joining the Netflix series, and the actor has broken his silence over taken on the role under such cirumstances.after it launched last December, and a lot of that is due to the new characters starring in the new wave of games. The most outlandish of them was undoubtedly the one foe inspired by a famous Marvel villain, the rapper Thanos.
, the star has since broken his silence about the role and noted how it seemed to be destiny, “The offer to play Thanos was a daunting proposition. The character mirrored my past, reflecting aspects I’d rather keep hidden. The fear of being pigeonholed into one role made me hesitate. But destiny seemed to be pulling me in this direction.
Choi even steered into that aspect of the character, and did research on how Thanos would react differently to things depending on when he used or didn’t use a drug, “The drug that Thanos uses in the series is extremely potent, so I researched the effects of such substances while developing the character…I tried to act differently in scenes where Thanos had not yet used the drug versus those where he had.
“So I wrote a countless number of songs, just by listening to my own dark heart and inner turmoil,” Choi continued. I wanted to heal myself through music and I want to share that music with my fans in some way.” But for his future overall, the star just wants, “My primary goal is to establish a stable and less dramatic life…I want to reach a point where I can wake up without being bombarded by negative news and feel more at peace.
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