This text incorporates spoilers from Squid Game Season 1 that influence the plot of Season 2.
Wi Ha-jun has performed a number of memorable supporting roles in Gyeongseong Creature and Little Ladies, earlier than touchdown one among his greatest roles but within the history-making Squid Sport sequence as Jun-ho, the youthful brother of In-ho/Entrance Man (performed by Lee Byung-hun).
Within the second season, Jun-ho wakes up in hospital, after being shot by his brother and falling off a cliff in Season 1. He crosses paths once more with game-winner Gi-hun (performed by Lee Jung-jae) and Jun-ho embarks on a quest to search out the island the place one other instalment of the violent, winner-takes-all sport is happening.
“It was my first time portraying one character over a number of seasons and I got here to comprehend how essential it’s for me to like the character,” Wi tells Deadline, about his progress as an actor throughout each seasons. “I’ve discovered a lot about this in-depth exploration and analysis concerning the character after which translating that into nuanced expression on display.”
On what he loves most about Jun-ho, Wi factors out that he admires the character’s ethical compass amid the deep private strife and emotional turmoil he’s experiencing about his long-lost brother.
“I’m not saying that Jun-ho is a personality who’s completely ethical, however seeing how he places his life in danger to pursue fact and notice justice was one thing that I actually liked about him as an individual,” says Wi. “I additionally thought that he’s the form of individual that we’d like today. So I discovered rather a lot from him, and I liked him.”
Wi additionally shared about his ambitions to be a part of a movie or present in Hollywood, following within the footsteps of fellow solid members like Lee Byung-hun (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) and Lee Jung-jae (Star Wars: The Acolyte). Whereas there are numerous administrators and actors stateside that Wi desires to work with, he highlights Christopher Nolan as one amongst his dream checklist.
“I actually revere Christopher Nolan,” says Wi. “If I do have a chance, I believe I want to act in an motion style piece and present what Okay-action could be. I do know that Lee Byung-hun has already achieved an excellent job on this, however I hope that I can present a special side of it too.”
For the second season of Squid Sport, Wi embraced the physicality of taking part in Jun-ho as he crosses land and sea to search out his brother and the video games. He says that his most memorable scene was the primary scene he seems in Season Two, the place he wakes up within the hospital along with his mom by his bedside.
Wi provides that he grew a beard for the scene and likewise misplaced weight to characterize his character’s transformation.
“It was so bodily difficult, which made it all of the extra rewarding whereas capturing the scene,” says Wi.
Wi says that a very powerful key phrase that Squid Sport creator and director Hwang Dong-hyuk gave him to information his efficiency was “stability,” in expressing Jun-ho’s temperament.
“Jun-ho is a really emotionally burdened character and it’s very difficult to precise that a part of Jun-ho, however director Hwang gave me the recommendation that Jun-ho must be very well-balanced when it comes to emotion,” says Wi. “Despite the fact that he’s personally going by means of loads of emotional turmoil, he nonetheless has to relentlessly search and obtain his objectives, to the very finish. That’s the path I obtained from the director and it helped me rather a lot in performing.”
