‘Squid Game’ Star Lee Jung-Jae On What Show’s Historic SAG Awards Mean For Future Of Korean Entertainment

deadline.com:

SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains details from the first season of Netflix’s Squid Game.After Netflix’s Squid Game made history on Sunday as the first non-English-language series, and the first from Korea to break through at the SAG Awards, claiming statuettes for Drama Actor (Lee Jung-Jae) and Actress (Jung Ho-yeon) and TV stunts, Lee spoke backstage to how Korean film and television as a whole might benefit from the show’s success.“I think it’s just the beginning.

There [is] a lot of amazing Korean content that’s just as entertaining and touching as Squid Game,” he said via an interpreter, “so I ask that you look out for [it], show us a lot of love and continue to watch a lot of great Korean content.”Lee also was asked backstage about the qualities in Korean entertainment that he finds special, and cited a wide variety. “The story unfolds at a very rapid pace.

There’s also a lot of great characters that are expressed in extreme detail,” he said, “and there are a lot of amazing and talented actors and actresses who are willing to portray great, natural and complex characters based on these great scripts.”Lee tonight beat out The Morning Show’s Billy Crudup and the Succession duo of Brian Cox and Kieran Culkin for the Drama Series Actor prize, with Jung besting competition for Drama Series Actress that included The Handmaid’s Tale‘s Elisabeth Moss, Succession‘s Sarah Snook and The Morning Show stars Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon.

While the show triumphed in Stunts over Cobra Kai, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki and Mare of Easttown and was expected to follow in the footsteps of Bong Joon Ho’s Korean Best Picture Oscar winner Parasite, with an ensemble win, the award for Performance by an