How Did A Phone Salesman Who Won ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ End Up Soundtracking One Of ‘Squid Game’s Bloodiest Season 2 Moments?
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT: This story gives away details of the second season of Netflix’s Squid Game. Paul Potts used to sell cellphones at a British store called Carphone Warehouse before he won the first season of Britain’s Got Talent.
He is not someone you expect to be soundtracking a bloody game of Russian roulette in the second season of Netflix’s Squid Game.
But it is his version of Nessun Dorma, an aria from the final act of Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot – a song popularized by Luciano Pavarotti during the 1990 FIFA World Cup – that plays over the violent subplot in the first episode of the Korean drama series.
In the opening episode of the sophomore season, Lee Jung-Jae’s Gi-Hun is searching for The Salesman, played by Train to Busan star Gong Yoo, who works as a recruiter for the Squid Games, playing Ddakji with them to get them to sign up for the annual event.
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