‘Squid Game 2’ Stars Park Gyu-Young & Lee Seo-Hwan Talk Auditions & How One Scene Reminded Them Of Korea’s 2002 World Cup

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This article contains spoilers for Squid Game Season 2. Park plays Kang No-eul, a North Korean defector who is desperately trying to find out more information about her young daughter left behind in the North.

No-eul ends up entering the games — not as a participant, but as a masked soldier, cladded in a bright pink uniform and given the license to kill participants who fail each round of the winner-takes-all games.

This twist in her identity was not something that Park was aware of during the two rounds of auditions she went through for the second season of the trailblazing show. “I went through two rounds of auditions, not knowing what role I would be playing,” Park tells Deadline. “I was just given a lot of lines to read.

The first audition round, I sent in an audition tape. The second round was in person with the director and the creator. It was only after that I was given the script and notified that I would actually be playing the role of the soldier.” Park previously appeared in hit dramas like It’s Okay to Not Be Okay and Sweet Home.