Actor Lee Jung-Jae says he’s but to say goodbye to participant quantity 456 or Seong Gi-hun of hit present Squid Recreation. The third and last season of Squid Recreation, the globally fashionable Netflix sequence, has wrapped manufacturing. Jung-Jae shot to worldwide stardom together with his efficiency because the perpetually down-on-his-luck but kind-hearted Gi-hun within the first season of the smash hit Netflix sequence in 2021. He gained a Primetime Emmy award and a number of different trophies for the present. (Additionally Learn | Squid Recreation Season 3: Lee Jung-jae says he is ‘very nervous’ about fan reactions)
Jung-Jae returned for the much-anticipated second season in 2024 and is now awaiting the discharge of the third season on June 27. “We’ve not launched season three but and we nonetheless do not understand how the audiences are going to answer season three, I have not stated goodbye to Gi-hun but though now we have wrapped manufacturing,” he stated.
“As an actor and as a part of those who have created the present, I really feel like seeing how the viewers responds to additionally it is a part of the journey. So once we get to try this, then I feel I will be able to say goodbye,” Jung-Jae advised PTI in a digital interview by means of the assistance of an interpreter.
Squid Recreation, created by Hwang Dong-hyuk, revolves round a lethal contest the place 456 gamers, all going through monetary hardship, play a sequence of lethal kids’s video games to win 45.6 billion gained in prize cash.
On the finish of the primary season, Gi-hun gained the prize cash however as a substitute of going again to his life, he got down to finish the lethal video games for good.
The second season noticed Gi-hun return to the video games with a mission — to uncover the true id of the mastermind. Whether or not he succeeds in his mission or not shall be revealed within the upcoming third season.
Jung-Jae, 52, a famend face within the South Korean movie and tv business with credit resembling An Affair, Il Mare, The Housemaid, Hunt and drama sequence Chief of Workers, stated whereas enjoying Gi-hun he was reminded of values folks are inclined to overlook in every day life.
“The most important classes that I felt by portraying Gi-hun and in addition by means of Squid Recreation, is that there are such a lot of issues that we expect we’re conscious of, however we are inclined to neglect in life,” he added.
“A few of them being the significance of understanding different folks and genuinely serving to others when they’re in want. Squid Recreation is certainly a present that has given me the chance to replicate and look again on these essential messages,” he stated.
The actor stated folks usually ask how comparable he’s to Gi-hun, and he believes they share many traits. “As I am the actor who portrayed Gi-hun, my very own interpretation of the character went into creating him. So we’re fairly comparable,” he stated.
Requested in regards to the motive why Korean storytellers are inclined to deal with points like inequality and the hole between wealthy and poor with nuance, Jung-Jae stated it’s not uncommon because the Korean leisure business likes to discover quite a lot of themes.
“And these themes are explored in a really free means by means of which a variety of completely different messages could be conveyed. I feel that is the facility that latest Korean content material has. Whether or not it is a social message or political or even when it is about romance, once we discover a selected theme, we dive into it, actually get to the center of all of it, and attempt to specific it in as free a means as potential. That is what’s distinctive about Korean content material and in addition why it is so highly effective nowadays,” he stated.
Season three of Squid Recreation can even function Lee Byung-hun, Wi Ha-joon, Im Si-wan, Park Sung-hoon, Kang Ha-neul, Park Gyu-young, Yang Dong-geun, Jo Yu-ri, Lee David, and Roh Jae-won.