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‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Star Park Sung-hoon On Creating Nuance & Tackling Fun Challenges As Player 120
Korean actor Park Sung-hoon talks to Deadline about playing Player 120 also known as Hyun-ju in the latest season of Netflix's Squid Game.
In the hit series, Park plays a prominent character named Cho Hyun-ju, a transgender woman with a military background who enters the games hoping to secure winnings to complete her gender-affirming surgery. Initially, there was controversy at casting, leading creator Hwang Dong-hyuk to give a public explanation regarding why Park, a cisgender man, was given the role, telling TV Guide it was “near impossible” to find an openly gay or trans actor in South Korea due to the country’s more conservative nature. And even outside of team Hyun-ju, characters like Myung-gi, Thanos, Se-mi, Min-su, Nam-gyu, all of us, because on Squid Game there’s long waiting hours, we would all get together, chat, have jokes, and we got to spend a lot of time getting close to each other like that.
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