‘Squid Game’ creator reveals he lost his teeth while filming debut season

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the South Korean thriller series on Netflix, recently told the BBC he lost “eight or nine” teeth filming the first season of the show.

In a 2022 interview with Variety, the 53-year-old producer said that six of his teeth fell out during the production of the show — but he corrected that number this week.Hwang’s Emmy Award-winning series follows hundreds of destitute citizens as they participate in a mysterious “survive or die” contest that promises to award one winner with a transformative sum of money, so long as they survive a sick Field Day-inspired tournament of perverse children’s games.“Even though the first series was such a huge global success, honestly I didn’t make much,” the Seoul native told the BBC while promoting Season 2, which premieres on Dec.

26.“So doing the second series will help compensate me for the success of the first one too,” he added. “And I didn’t fully finish the story.”When asked why he changed about his mind about doing another season, Hwang replied, “Money.”Hwang based “Squid Game” on his struggles following the economic crisis that hit South Korea in 2009.It became Netflix’s most-watched show ever when the first season dropped in September 2021.Season 2 is featuring all new characters aside from Lee Jung-jae’s Seong Gi-hun, the reigning champion who returns to the game to end it once and for all.“The stress I feel now is much greater,” Hwang said about making the new season.After the first season came out, Hwang revealed that he didn’t get rich despite the show’s huge success.