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‘Squid Game’ Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk Says He Lost “Eight Or Nine” Teeth Shooting Netflix’s South Korean Mega-Hit
'Squid Game' creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has revealed he lost "eight or nine" teeth making the first season of the Netflix survival drama.
The creator of Netflix ‘s South Korean hit series, Hwang Dong-hyuk, laughed as told the BBC he had lost “eight or nine” teeth due to the stress of making Season 1. Hwang has often talked about how the license fee Netflix paid for his show, which he had been trying to make for more than a decade before it received a greenlight, cut him out of the huge back-end revenues Squid Game made when it unexpected blew up top become the streamer’s biggest hit in 2021. Besides Squid Game, Korea has birthed The Glory and Extraordinary Attorney Woo among others, with the streamer pledging $2.5BN investment in Korean content in April 2023, to be spent over five years.
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