Squid Game’s Sinister Front Man on His Character’s Surprising Season 2 Arc

The squid game 2 it’s finally here! If you haven’t matched the episodes yet on Netflixturn now, because this interview with stella Lee Byung Hun reveals the plot for his characterthe Front Man-someone we barely met in the first season, but who plays a much bigger part this time around. io9 had the opportunity to ask Lee more about what was revisiting, and significantly expanding, his previously very enigmatic role.

As the second season reveals, the Front Man takes on a much more active role in the games: he’s actually one of the contestants, a shocking revelation that comes a few episodes after we’ve already seen him in his masked man ensemble.

For Lee, getting to dig into the Front Man — his real name is In-ho, but he identifies himself in the game as “Young-il” — was an acting delight.

“In the first season, I played the frontman as a cameo,” he explained through a translator to io9 and other reporters in a The squid game 2 press event. “And even the character was limited to an operational role with the mask on. In the second season, the mask comes off and you have more on, and I can tell more of his story.”

Thanks to the events of season one, we know that In-ho—brother of determined police detective Jun-ho, whose pursuit of Squid Game justice is a major part of both seasons one and two—is a past winner of the games.

“(Season two explores) why he got into the Squid Game in the first place, how he became this extremely pessimistic person that he is,” Lee said. “He reveals his backstory in the second season to (to) other people he plays with. He creates this fake persona, almost a new character, and he tricks those who play the games. So, in the end, it’s almost like and if you have three different types of characters in one character. There’s the Front Man, there’s In-ho, and then there’s Yeong-il.”

He continued. “As an actor, being able to play a character that has such complex and multifaceted sides to him is both challenging and something very, very enjoyable to do as a performer. And as for the degree to which he would showing each of the different elements of the character, was something that the director (Hwang Dong-hyuk) and I had constant conversations about so that we could get it right.”

The Front Man’s journey still has a ways to go, as the season two finale certainly shows, especially since none of the players have yet figured out who Player 001 is. indeed is it. Look at it The squid game 2 on Netflix now.

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