Squid Game creator discusses season 2’s most exhausting challenge that made everyone ‘really sick’
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Hwang Dong-hyuk, the show’s creator, director and writer, said the scene took more than two weeks to shoot. Netflix’s hit South Korean thriller — which sees hundreds of cash-strapped individuals compete in deadly children’s games for a life-changing sum of money — returned for its second season on December 26.
![[Lee Byung-hun as Hwang In-ho/Front Man in ‘Squid Game’ season 2]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/29/18/Squidgame_Unit_203_N041130.jpg)
The new season welcomes back Lee Jung-jae as Player 456 Seong Gi-hun, who infiltrates the contest to try and put and end to it once and for all. *Spoilers follow – you have been warned*. After entering the contest again, Gi-hun is faced with a new set of games he must pass in order to survive.
One of them includes a six-legged race, where players are brought into an indoor room full of sand. Divided into groups of five, contestants must complete a series of timed challenges while running around a mini track. While waiting their turn, the rest of the teams are seated in the middle cheering each other on.
“That was the only game where participants root for each other. I thought [while writing the game], if we can increase the opportunities for people to support and root for each other, society will get better,” Hwang said. Lee remembered the scene being “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,” he said, with Hwang adding: “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.”.
