Squid Game Season 2: Series Star Lee Jung-jae Makes a Worrying Statement

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star Lee Jung-jae knows that fans of the hit serial are clamoring for a 2d flavor — and he’southward got some ideas upwardly his sleeve for what’south to come up.

Though Netflix has yet to officially greenlight a season 2 of the Korean survival thriller, Lee, 49, tells PEOPLE in this week’due south result that he feels more episodes are in the cards, especially considering the show’s success and its open-ended season i finale.

“A second season has get inevitable in a manner,” he says. “I remember when we were shooting, I asked [creator Hwang Dong-hyuk] if there’d be a second flavor, and he said, ‘I don’t call up so. That’southward going to be very difficult.’ But we tin’t non do one now, because nosotros’ve received then much love all across the world.”

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While Lee says that the prove creator has but just started planning what’s next — Hwang said in a recent interview that he’south currently “in talks” with Netflix for two more seasons — the show’s star is hoping for a plot that keeps the audience on its toes.

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“I hope in that location’s some sort of twist that’ll exist exciting and surprising for me and the viewers,” Lee says. “If it was predictable, it would be no fun.”

The Seoul native, a longtime major moving picture star in South Korea, plays Seong Gi-hun, a cash-strapped gambling aficionado and male parent recruited to play a mysterious, deadly series of children’s games in exchange for a prize worth millions.

Flavor 1 ended (spoiler warning!) with Gi-hun seemingly ready to return to the arena he previously conquered in the name of revenge — and according to Lee, that’s well-nigh all that’due south certain.

“I have no thought what will happen or the calibration of information technology, merely the but thing [Hwang] did tell me was that Seong Gi-hun is going to exist in the testify once more, and he’southward going to be playing in the loonshit once more,” he says.

Post-obit the show’s premiere in September, it enjoyed a record-breaking rise in popularity, and was watched past 142 1000000 households effectually the world.

Lee says he “never expected” the crazy success of
Squid Game, though he admits he knew early on on that he was a part of something special.

“On the first day when we were shooting red low-cal, green light, I saw the gigantic Young-hee robot and 456 people in light-green sweats running for their lives, and I suddenly got the feeling that it was going to be very large,” he recalls. “And then I went and told [Hwang] and the crew, ‘I recall this is going to be actually popular. You lot should make a theme park right now, you should make sure that that robot’due south there, and people could play the six games that are in this bear witness.’ “

Lee adds that he and his costars stay continued with a group chat, though they oasis’t had the chance to meet each other in person equally much as they’d like due to logistics and the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I promise that when all of this is over, we can meet up again and eat, accept a meal together, and talk well-nigh how life has been for each of us,” he says.