‘They didn’t just pick us up off the street!’ Meet the globally derided Squid Game VIPs

Squid Game is a sensation. A violent Korean drama that mixes childhood nostalgia with vast amounts of death, the series has surpassed all expectations to become the most successful show in Netflix history. It has made global stars of its main cast overnight. That is, with a few notable exceptions.

As for the negative feedback about his role in Squid Game, Giuliano isn’t interested. “I ain’t complaining, baby!” he roars, gesticulating so wildly he sends his webcam flying. “I’m in the hottest show in the world. I got fanmail. Just today I got a woman who said: ‘Send me your autograph.’ So I did, and two hours later she sent me a photo where she had ‘Geoffrey Giuliano, VIP four,’ tattooed right across her forearm.” He pauses.

“I think the first thing to dispel is this myth that they just pick us up off the street,” says Michaels, pointing out that every role he has ever played has come at the end of a long audition process. Alongside his screen work, Michaels also writes and directs, and has years of experience as a performer.

Additionally, Kennedy says that all the acting on Squid Game – and in Korean drama in general – is deliberately heightened, something non-Korean viewers might have missed. “Whether they’re watching with a dubbed or subtitled version, people who don’t speak Korean don’t have the understanding needed to fully judge a Korean actor’s performance. What might be cartoonish or broad about them is lost in translation, whereas the VIPs had no such luxury”.

This is by no means a Korean phenomenon. Indeed, when Marvel decided to add some Korean lines to Black Panther in 2018, most of the world simply accepted it. But to Korean speakers, the scenes stuck out like a sore thumb. “The Korean in this movie was so bad it hurt me to watch”, said one Reddit user. “Getting a random Korean from the street would have been better.” Sound familiar?

Giuliano, meanwhile, believes the very nature of the VIP characters in Squid Game demanded a heightened performance. “This was some stylised shit,” he says. “By the way, the show’s creator? He’s a Kubrick freak. Listen to the music he’s playing when we’re in the big scene. It’s from 2001. So it was a stylised performance predicated on, I believe, the director’s kinship [with Kubrick].”

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