Join the cast of Netflix’s Squid Game as they relive some big moments following the release of Squid Game Season 2: from Gi-hun being recruited to the final Squid Game. Watch as Lee Jung-jae, Lee Byung-hun and Hwang Dong-hyuk break down some iconic moments from Squid Game.
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00:00Hello, GQ.
00:02I'm Lee Jung Jae.
00:03I'm Lee Byung Hun.
00:04I'm Hwang Dong Hyuk.
00:06These are the biggest moments from Squid Game Season 1.
00:10Gi Hoon gets recruited.
00:13Do you have no money?
00:15Money...
00:18Then you can pay with your body.
00:21With my body?
00:24Personally, when I play the finger flick,
00:26I laughed the most when I got hit by the finger flick.
00:32The three of us are sitting here today.
00:35The front man should've recruited Sang Hoon first.
00:37He's got a lot of debt.
00:39He should've recruited him first.
00:44And my friend, Gi Hoon.
00:47They could've had a fight in the game.
00:50They could've held hands.
00:51I thought this story would be fun.
00:55I think Gi Hoon was recruited because of Sang Hoon.
00:59That's a secret.
01:02A business secret.
01:03I got the idea from people I didn't know.
01:08He was a loser.
01:09He failed socially.
01:12He was fired from his company.
01:14He was even divorced for financial reasons.
01:16He lived with his mom.
01:18He was the worst middle-aged man
01:22I made Gi Hoon thinking of the worst middle-aged man.
01:27It's like you're portraying yourself.
01:31Gi Hoon has a bit of my old self in him.
01:34First of all, Gi Hoon's looks.
01:36Of course, Jung Jae is much more handsome.
01:39He wears a hat and a flimsy jacket.
01:41He walks around the racecourse.
01:43Everyone said he looked like me in college.
01:47They said,
01:48Didn't you wear the same fashion as you did?
01:49They told me that.
01:51He's a total loser who's on the bottom.
01:55I wanted him to be a good person.
01:58In a way, he's like a child.
02:00He lost all his money at the racecourse.
02:02To buy a gift for his daughter.
02:03When a doll-pulling machine pulls out a gift.
02:06When a kid pulls it out for him.
02:07There's a scene where he hugs the kid and spins around.
02:11In a way, he's immature, but he's a boy.
02:13Jung Jae expressed that very well.
02:18He's a broken man.
02:19I think he made me into a person I can't hate.
02:22In terms of acting.
02:24That's what I thought.
02:25Red light, green light, game.
02:31While the tagger shouts,
02:32Red light, green light, game.
02:35You can move forward.
02:37If you are detected later,
02:40You're out.
02:42Red light, green light?
02:45You know, what we used to do when we were young?
02:47It's a game that I don't think anyone in my generation has ever played.
02:53It's a game that I always played when a few people gathered in the neighborhood.
02:57It was one of the most memorable games.
03:00I chose it as the first game.
03:02I don't think I've played since I was in the second grade of elementary school.
03:06How long do you remember?
03:08Maybe it's because I'm immature.
03:10I think I played it again when I was big.
03:13Now that I have a child, I think I played with my child a while ago.
03:18Red light, green light.
03:20It's very subjective.
03:22That's right.
03:23You got caught.
03:24You moved.
03:25I got caught, but I never got caught.
03:28It's usually a matter of fighting like this.
03:31But there's a delicate compromise.
03:35It's not dying, is it?
03:36When I wrote the script and drew the conti, I calculated one by one.
03:40I went from here to there in five minutes.
03:42I shouted 14 times, red light, green light.
03:45I wrote down what happened in each of those 14 times.
03:51The first person dies and starts running away.
03:54I remember writing a script and making a conti by calculating all of those things one by one.
03:59I started with about 330 actors.
04:02I didn't have a sense.
04:03Can this work?
04:04Until then, it was an idea that was only in my head.
04:07I was looking at the script, and it felt like a group dance.
04:13It felt like an art piece.
04:15Sugar Honeycomb Game
04:19The second game is sugar picking.
04:22The shape you have chosen is the shape you will have to pick.
04:31I've been picking since I was five.
04:34I've never tried to pick it.
04:38I just put it all in one bite and ate it.
04:40Didn't you buy a good house?
04:42No, I just didn't expect it at all.
04:44I didn't expect that I could do this.
04:46I just ate it.
04:47Actually, the reason I made this game is because I liked it so much when I was young.
04:52There were a lot of pickers in the neighborhood.
04:55Actually, if you pick an umbrella, you get money.
04:58I didn't give you one more.
04:59I didn't give you one more.
05:00I gave you one more round triangle.
05:03I gave you an umbrella for 300 won or something.
05:06I gave you money.
05:07It was that hard.
05:09So I was going to pick it.
05:10I developed all kinds of methods.
05:13What we developed was to melt it with a hot pin in our neighborhood and lick it from behind.
05:18So I picked it and got the money.
05:20I thought I was just putting it on my mouth and melting it like this.
05:25The director licked it like this.
05:28That's the point.
05:29Huh? That sounds fun, too.
05:31Because you have to be desperate.
05:34I think that's better.
05:35So I changed my move.
05:38The day before the shoot, I asked for a sample to see if it worked.
05:44I kept licking it from behind in the motel room for five minutes.
05:48So I really picked it.
05:49Umbrella.
05:50It works.
05:51The director can be the winner of the real squid game.
05:56Thug of War.
06:15When I first wrote the script, I thought it would be fun to play tug-of-war.
06:19If I drop it, I'll die.
06:20It has to be fun and convincing.
06:23I was thinking about how to beat this team that was at a disadvantage.
06:27I think I searched a lot.
06:28How to win tug-of-war.
06:30What came out of it was standing in a zigzag.
06:34Lying down.
06:35Lying down in a matrix position and holding on.
06:38Then it won't be dragged easily.
06:40I found this somewhere.
06:42That's why Oh Yoon-nam explained it to me.
06:47The picture was cool, too.
06:48Lying back like this.
06:50If I drop it, I won't be dragged, but I don't think I can win easily.
06:55I thought there should be one more kick.
06:57And then Sang-woo's idea.
07:00Suddenly move forward and knock them down.
07:03I remember seeing that somewhere when I was young.
07:09I made a strategy.
07:11I thought it would be better if it was convincing rather than working in reality.
07:16It was a strategy I made.
07:18I think you had the hardest time.
07:20But the tug-of-war game was surprisingly hard.
07:24Even if our team pulled it, they tied it up so that it wouldn't move.
07:30The camera kept filming for about a minute.
07:34It was surprisingly hard to pull it for a minute.
07:39The marble game twist.
07:49No. 159 is out.
07:54He's a really bad guy.
07:56He knows that the characters are close to each other.
08:00He's the one who made the rule to eliminate one of his characters.
08:08I thought it was too cruel.
08:12As a result, it was a fun game.
08:18It was a game that many people could enjoy while being nervous.
08:23It was the right choice.
08:27It was the fourth game, so I thought there would be people who got close to each other.
08:31Of course, I made them believe that they were playing the same game.
08:36If there's a game that kills each other, I thought it would be the biggest dramatic twist.
08:42So I made a marble game.
08:44A lot of people watched it and got heartbroken.
08:48When I watched the overseas reaction video, people cried the most after watching this game.
08:52Oh, I did it. I succeeded.
08:54In season 2, In-ho tested his energy.
08:57In season 1, I think it was a game where Oh Il-nam tested his energy the most.
09:02I think it was a moment when he showed his last little kindness to the energy that showed something to him.
09:08I thought he was a really cruel person.
09:12You can think of it as a little kindness that can lead to the next game.
09:18I thought it was too cruel to watch Oh Il-nam think about what kind of psychology this energy would have in the next game.
09:32The glass stepping stone.
09:42The actors were really scared.
09:50But if you do it a few times, you'll get used to it.
09:54Is that a little far? I think that's going to be a little slippery.
09:57And then I started to sweat.
09:59I was sweating on my feet, so I jumped and went to the next stone, and it kept slipping.
10:05So I fell down a couple of times.
10:08I practiced a little in the picture.
10:11It's a reinforced glass, so it doesn't break, but it shakes.
10:14Especially if you jump over one space, you can feel all the vibrations with your bare feet.
10:20I was a little scared of that.
10:22When I said I was going to play on set, he was filming it.
10:27So I thought, What is he doing?
10:30Kim Joo-jung, who played the role of Kim Min-hyuk, couldn't jump one space, so she cried on top of it.
10:37She was so scared of jumping, so she comforted her and persuaded her to jump once.
10:43It took about 10 minutes.
10:46And in the end, I reduced the width I could jump.
10:49That's how scary everyone was.
10:51It was scarier than I thought.
10:54It was hard for me.
10:56Reveal of the front man.
11:00Kim Joo-jung, who played the role of Kim Min-hyuk, couldn't jump one space, so she cried on top of it.
11:05It was hard for me.
11:07It was hard for me.
11:09Kim Joo-jung, who played the role of Kim Min-hyuk, couldn't jump one space, so she cried on top of it.
11:13It was hard for me.
11:15Because the front man's warrior doesn't come out at all in the first episode,
11:20I can't explain what background he has and what story he has.
11:26There's a younger brother, and there's a story he can't tell his younger brother.
11:32I can only guess.
11:34That's where the first episode ends.
11:36In season 2, the past of the front man, his own story,
11:42And the reason why he's here now.
11:46It's enough to explain.
11:50Squid Game
11:52I'm afraid I'm going to quit the game.
11:55If you quit, it's over.
11:58I have to get out of here without money.
12:03If it wasn't for him,
12:07I would have died with this knife.
12:15That money...
12:18I can't get out of here with it.
12:20The last game, Squid Game, is also...
12:23It's not a different character, it's Sang-woo.
12:26Since I'm playing the final game,
12:28Emotionally, I'm so...
12:31Should I play this game with my friend?
12:34Should I live here?
12:36I'm starting the game with a lot of worries.
12:40I think the viewers will find it more interesting than any other game.
12:47I put some twists in it.
12:49I tried to kill him for revenge against Sae-byeok.
12:52Ki-hoon didn't kill Sang-woo.
12:55He put the knife in the ground and walked to win the game.
12:58You're turning around again.
12:59And then we'll vote for Sang-woo.
13:02Let's finish this game.
13:04Let's live here together.
13:05The first twist was Ki-hoon's choice to give up money and save Sang-woo.
13:10But Sang-woo refuses Ki-hoon's offer.
13:13Then no one can take the money.
13:16I think Sang-woo's choice to commit suicide was a big twist.
13:21The setting was perfect for Sang-woo.
13:25He's asking his mom for a favor.
13:28At that moment, he's a character with a spinning head.
13:32Sang-woo couldn't imagine that he couldn't take the money after everyone died.
13:38Player number one is alive.
13:41Do you know what's in common between a person who has no money and a person who has too much money?
13:58It's not fun to live.
14:03The setting was cruel.
14:05I thought, since when have you been watching me suffer like this?
14:11You really play with me until the end.
14:14The frontman comes after he leaves.
14:17It's the last scene where he closes his eyes.
14:22It's like, you're gone, I'm the winner, I'm the host.
14:27It looks like a declaration.
14:30I was surprised because it was almost the last part of the shoot.
14:35When Oh Young-soo appeared on the set, he was really surprised.
14:41That's right. It was the first scene we met.
14:43I think he kept it a secret that I was appearing as a cameo.
14:48He was so surprised to see me on the set.
14:52Wow, the secret was kept perfectly until the end of the shoot.
14:58So I was very surprised, too.
15:00But there's no reason for Oh Il-nam to keep it a secret.
15:03There wasn't.
15:04I didn't tell many people because I was going to be a cameo as a surprise.
15:10In case it becomes an article.
15:11Yes, in case it becomes a rumor.
15:13Ki-hoon dyes hair and chooses to go back.
15:17Take that plane. It'll be good for you.
15:29How did you feel when I asked you to dye your hair red?
15:38Do I have to?
15:39I couldn't understand. Why?
15:42With my red hair.
15:43But I felt like it suited you.
15:48It didn't suit me.
15:50Anyway, his psychology.
15:54From the point of view of the person who made it,
15:56Everyone died and came out with money, but the reason for going in is gone.
16:00I went in to make money for my mother's treatment.
16:03I thought he was a person who lost his life goal and was completely ruined.
16:08I want to go back to normal, but I can't go back.
16:11I think it's a symbol of a person who's already broken somewhere in here.
16:17Why don't you try red hair?
16:19I don't think the director was sincere at that moment.
16:22In a sense, I went on a trip with Ki-hoon.
16:28I don't think my daughter would have liked it if I had gone on a plane with red hair.
16:35Then you should show me your bank account.