Contestants on “Squid Sport” could also be shedding their lives, however its creator is shedding his enamel!

Creator, author, and director Hwang Dong-hyuk just lately revealed that he misplaced about eight enamel filming the primary season of the Netflix smash hit, and now he is misplaced just a few extra!

Just a few weeks forward of the season 3 premiere of “Squid Sport,” Hwang opened up on the stress that he has skilled whereas creating the Netflix hit. He informed Leisure Weeklythat whereas he misplaced about “eight or 9” enamel whereas making the primary season, there have been nonetheless just a few extra to go.

“I believed it was going to be okay, however this time I needed to pull out two extra enamel as properly,” Hwang informed the publication. “I needed to pull out about eight enamel in season 1, and now I’ve two extra enamel out, and I have never put them again in but. So I am ready for them.”

Despite the fact that it nonetheless took a toll on his well being, Hwang admitted that it was simpler for him to complete seasons 2 and three, which is able to wrap up the story of Gi-Hun (also referred to as Play 456), who Emmy-award-winning actor Lee Jung-jae performs.

“I do have already got the universe and the area that I’ve envisioned come to life, so in a way, season 2 and season 3 had been simpler in comparison with season 1,” Hwang defined. “However the issue is that for season 2 and season 3, we needed to shoot and write in a single go.”

“It was as if we had been making one season, and we tried as finest as we might to usher in season 3 as quick as doable,” he continued. “So the entire quantity was a lot bigger, and we needed to shoot for round one yr, so it was very bodily demanding.”

Final yr, followers of the hit Netflix sequence watched Gi-hun lead a failed rise up towards the Entrance Man, performed by Lee Byung-hun. The second season ended on a dramatic be aware, with the Entrance Man killing Gi-hun’s shut good friend, Jung-bae, proper in entrance of him. With a number of contestants nonetheless remaining, Hwang teased that the video games are going to be extra grotesque than ever.

“Within the case of season 3, I needed to introduce video games that might actually present the bottom backside of human beings, as a result of the sequence itself is reaching its climax,” Hwang beforehand informed Leisure Weekly. “I needed very intense video games to deliver out the underside elements of human nature.”

“In season 1, we had a number of video games like Tug of Struggle that basically utilized top and the concern that this top provides, however within the case of season 2, we did not have that aspect,” he defined. “That’s the reason in season 3, I made a decision to introduce video games that might actually infuse concern in individuals with sheer top.”

Though there may be a variety of bloodshed in retailer for his characters, Hwang revealed that “season 3 is certainly a finale” that will not finish in a very darkish place.

“Within the case of season 3, I needed to take a barely totally different method — I needed to deal with how [people] should protect their humanity amidst this intense competitors on this capitalistic period,” Hwang stated.

He went on to say, “I needed to deal with how we will protect our sense of humanity and the way we should always stay people even amidst this intense competitors. I attempt to pose that as a closing query.”