The Squid Game season two games which the cast complained were the hardest to film

All the creepy games in Squid Game season two were pretty gruelling to watch. It turns out they were tough to film, too. Here are the games in season two which the Squid Game cast say they struggled to film the most. Apparently “everyone got really sick” during one scene, and actors kept falling over in another? Honestly, I thought school sports day was hard enough.

The Mingle game

My dyspraxic self could never
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This is the challenge when all the players were spun around on a platform while creepily happy music played. When the music stopped, everyone had to dash into little rooms in groups of specific numbers. Apparently many actors actually fell off the spinning platform.

The executive producer Kim Ji-yeonso told The Wrap that the actors kept crashing into each other and falling off the platform. “As more contestants were being killed and the number of people on the turntable was shrinking, it was actually OK. But when we were starting with all the surviving contestants, it would start and stop.”

Lee Seo-hwan plays our fav Jung-bae in the show. He also found this game the hardest to film. He said in an interview with ET, “You have to be very quick and decisive in your movement, and I have really poor eyesight. The lights would turn on and off really quickly, which was quite blinding. I couldn’t find my spot sometimes.”

Red light, green light

The stuff of nightmares
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This iconic and extremeley terrifying game was the hardest for Lee Jung-jae (the actor sho stars as Gi-hun). He told ET it was extra tricky to film because it was such an intense moment for his character. “Gi-hun really wanted to save all 455 people, except for himself. He wanted no one to die in that game. We filmed that scene for about four or five days. I kept screaming at the top of my lungs, ‘Freeze!’ It was physically the most demanding for me.”

The six-legged pentathlon

I would struggle enough to do a pentathlon by myself
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This Squid Game challenge was so intense to watch, but it was even more intense to film. The ground was made of the dusty gravel material which you often get in kids’ playgrounds. While filming the scene, the actors kicked up loads of this dust which irratated their throats and lungs.

The show’s creator Hwang Dong-hyuk said to  The Wrap, “Everyone got really sick. As soon as I said ‘cut,’ everyone started coughing, including me. It took more than two weeks to shoot the scene.”

Some of the Squid Game actors have also spoken about struggling with this scene. Lee Byung-hun (the actor of Player 001, aka Front Man) also told The Wrap, “It was the most fun, but also the most exhausting. Every time one group did a run around, (the set) was completely filled with dust, and it was hard to breathe.”

Fair enough. I would fall falt on my face in five minutes if I attempted it.

The ddakji origami tiles in Squid Game are actually pretty tricky to make

He’s crafty and he’s good at crafts
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These are the little paper squares which The Recruiter (aka The Salesman) uses to recruit players for the next Squid Game.

Jo Yu-ri, who played Kim Joon-hee, said in a Netflix interview, “I had been practicing ddakji non-stop on set. I was good when I was practicing, but I wasn’t able to do it during the shoot.”

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