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‘Squid Game 2’ Stars Park Gyu-Young & Lee Seo-Hwan Talk Auditions & How One Scene Reminded Them Of Korea’s 2002 World Cup


'Squid Game' Season 2 stars Park Gyu-young and Lee Seo-hwan share more about how they got involved with the second season of the record-breaking show.

Actor Lee Seo-hwan plays the role of Jung-bae, who is lead character Gi-hun’s long-time friend, also appearing in the first two episodes of Squid Game Season 1. “I remember the director telling me that the character’s name literally means sunset in Korean, so it refers to a time when darkness starts to seep in and you feel heavier,” says Park. “Going beyond just the facial expressions and having a lower voice, the director talked about how it means more than that, how I had to carry a sense of this very heavy, weighted emotion, especially when entering the games as the soldier.”

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