If you've chanced across Squid Game on Netflix and watched a couple of episodes, you'll know it's a K-drama to be reckoned with
Director Hwang Dong Hyuk said, "Squid Game was something I used to play as a child in the school yard or on the streets of my neighbourhood. I felt like this was a story of people that used to play these games as children and they come back as adults to play these games to win the cash prize. This was the game that was the most physical and one of my most favourite games, the most symbolic children’s game that shows various facets of the very competitive aspects of our society today.
"It was actually right after my very first [film] debut, that was the time when I really frequented comic books stores; as I was reading I thought about creating a comic story in Korea, and I finished the script in 2009. At the time it felt very unfamiliar and violent, there were a lot of people who felt it was too complex. I wasn’t able to get casting and funding, so I had to put it to sleep then," recalls Hwang wistfully.
"When I started reading the script late at night, I ended up finishing it in one sitting until the next morning. That was how great the story was and I am a great fan of [director Hwang's] previous works," says Jung Ho Yeon, who plays Park Sae Byeok, a North Korean spy who is thrust unwittingly into the game.
"It was quite difficult to interpret the inner feelings of Sang Woo, so I had a lot of conversations with the director. There were only reasonable choices that he could make that I had to follow, but as events developed and Sang Woo had many internal upheavals, that would be something that viewers would be excited to see," says Hae Soo.
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