‘Squid Game’ was originally planned to have only one season, Lee Byung-hun reveals

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Squid Game actor Lee Byung-hun has revealed that the popular Netflix K-drama series was originally planned to only have one season.Lee, who played Front Man in the first season of the show, recently spoke to South Korean media about the upcoming second season of Squid Game.

During the interview, the actor revealed that series director Hwang Dong-hyuk had told him that Squid Game was never planned with a second season in mind.“Since I’ve worked with Hwang Dong-hyuk, the director of Squid Game, for a movie before, we’re very close to each other,” Lee said, per SBS Star, adding that Hwang had “initially never planned for the show to have a sequel”.“After wrapping up Squid Game, we went out for dinner.

Over dinner, I asked him what it was like for him to make a series. He was like, ‘I’ve lost six teeth due to stress. I’m never doing a television show again’,” Lee continued. “But it was the show’s global success that got him to make a sequel.”Lee later spoke about the script for season two of Squid Game, saying that it made him feel like Hwang is a “true storyteller” and a “genius”.

He added: “Creating something out of nothing, that’s what it was. Squid Game was a show that originally wasn’t intended to have a second season, so the script amazed me even more.”In the down time between the first and second seasons of Squid Game, fans have come up with theories about the possible plot of the sequel.