Three stars from the hugely popular Netflix series didn't anticipate the 'international tsunami' the show would become.
In Screen Gab No. 7, we tackle Korea’s surprise streaming hit, diagram the battle of the Britney docs and discuss “Diana: The Musical.”“I’ve always been interested in characters that have good and bad, that duality,” says Lee. “Gi-hun enjoys gambling, he’s jobless, in debt, not a good family member, kind of a loser. But there’s a part of him you cannot dislike too much, and I wanted to highlight that. The dark and the light, the ugliness and the fun.
It’s why it’s hard to imagine a richer first acting job than Jung’s as guarded North Korean defector Sae-byeok, but she had no idea what she was in for when the audition for “Squid Game” came her way. A top-tier model who’d gone from placing second in South Korea’s version of “Next Top Model” to walking runways internationally for Louis Vuitton and Chanel, Jung was firmly ensconced in New York and preparing for Fashion Week when the enigmatic audition scenes arrived.
Looking back now, she remembers how she could hardly get any words out when meeting Hwang, who asked few questions to begin with. “But I think it helped,” she says, “because Sae-byeok doesn’t talk that much, she’s very much by herself, and because I didn’t speak much at the audition, I think the director could see me as Sae-byeok. Also, I’d barely slept, so I had these dark circles under my eyes, and I looked terrible.
Park concurs that Hwang created an atmosphere that allowed him to focus on his character and that it also made watching it later like experiencing it anew. “It was really interesting to see the pacing, the colors, how the characters flowed and developed. That was quite surprising.”
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