Squid Game’s Sinister Front Man on Stranger Things Part 2 Arc

Squid Game 2 now he has arrived! If you haven’t read the episodes yet on Netflixleave now, because this interview is stellar Lee Byung Hun they reveal the story of his characterFront Man—a character we didn’t really get to know in the first season, but who plays a much bigger role this time around. io9 got the chance to ask Lee more about what it was like to revisit, and expand upon, his mysterious role.

As the second season reveals, the Front Man plays a very important role in the game: he is actually one of the contestants, an amazing show that comes with several episodes after we have already seen him in his masked outfit.

For Lee, stepping into Front Man—his real name is In-ho, but he identifies himself in the game as “Young-il”—was a joy to do.

“In the first season, I played the frontman as a cameo,” he explained through a translator to io9 and other journalists in the group. Squid Game 2 media event. “And his character just worked with the mask on. In the second season, the mask comes off and you learn more, and I can tell more about his story.”

Thanks to what happened in the first season, we know that In-ho, the brother of the determined policeman Jun-ho, whose hunt for justice in the Squid Game is a major part of the seventh season – is a winner in the past.

“(Season two explores) why he got into the Squid Games in the first place, how he became the hopeless person he is,” Lee said. “He reveals his background in the second season to (the) other characters. He creates this fake character, almost a new person, and he deceives the characters. So in the end, it’s like you get three different types of characters inside one character. There is Front Man, In-ho, and then Yeong-il.

He continued. “As an actor, to be able to play a character who has complex and multifaceted aspects to him is a challenge and a very interesting thing to do as an actor. And in terms of the degree to which I could show each side of the character, that was something that the director (Hwang Dong-hyuk) and I we are constantly talking to each other so that we can make it better.”

The Front Man’s journey still has a ways to go, as season two shows – especially since none of the players have figured out who Player 001 is. actually and. Look Squid Game 2 on Netflix now.

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