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Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk says he's lost 10 teeth due to the stress of making the show

It’s been three days since Hwang Dong-hyuk completely wrapped up post-production work on the final season of Squid Game, a global phenomenon that has occupied

Timing is everything for a project like Squid Game, and the world wasn’t ready for it back in 2009 when Hwang first wrote the screenplay as a feature film — only to be told by potential backers it was too grotesque and unrealistic. In a farewell address to the nation last year, Biden warned, “an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.” If 300 extras, 20 actors and 200 crew members can co-exist in a cold, sandy pit to enact a six-legged pentathlon on a small set for 15 grueling days, isn’t there hope humans can do the same at an even larger scale?

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