SPOILER ALERT: This text comprises main spoilers from the “Squid Recreation” collection finale, now streaming on Netflix.
Midway by means of the ultimate season of Netflix’s “Squid Recreation,” a serious character is launched who finally ends up having no traces and is usually performed by a robotic doll: Jun-hee/Participant 222’s (Jo Yu-ri) new child daughter.
The prop is a key determine by means of the collection finale, and is on the middle of the ultimate ethical battle between Gi-hun/Participant 456 (Lee Jung-jae) and The Entrance Man/In-ho (Lee Byung-hun). (Learn our “Squid Recreation” character information should you’re misplaced.)
Whereas Jun-hee has been visibly within the third trimester of her being pregnant (Myung-gi/Participant 333’s is the organic father) since she was launched into the video games initially of Season 2, the actual fact the newborn was truly born through the Squid Recreation was a twist for even star Lee Jung-jae, who wasn’t anticipating “Squid Recreation” creator and director Hwang Dong-hyuk to go that far.
“After I first learn the script, once I learn the half about this child being born, I used to be simply in fairly a shock myself, too — I believed it was a fantastic factor within the story,” Lee Jung-jae mentioned. “And as for the VFX, we truly had a robotic constructed within the form and weight of an precise new child child. So the robotic had precise facial expressions. It will wiggle like a new child child, and the burden was fairly practical. In order that helped me rather a lot with my efficiency.”
Jo Yu-ri as Jun-hee in “Squid Recreation 3”
Courtesy of No Ju-han/Netflix
Gi-hun agrees to guard the new child in any respect prices earlier than Jun-hee sacrifices herself for her youngster, and he holds to that promise till the very finish — giving up his personal life for the newborn’s. The explanations for Gi-hun’s motivations to place this youngster — to whom he has no outdoors relation — earlier than himself and his likelihood to get out of the video games once more are manifold, in line with Lee.
“People who have come into Squid Recreation, the gamers of the sport, they’ve chosen to be there — however that’s not the case for the newborn,” Lee mentioned. “And so I believe from Gi-hun’s standpoint, that’s one of many the reason why it turns into essential for him to guard the newborn, as a result of that child didn’t make that option to be there. And likewise, Gi-hun, being the person who he’s, who has such a superb coronary heart, he needed to assist the newborn’s mom.”
One other motivating issue is Gi-hun’s ongoing battle of morals with The Entrance Man/In-ho working the video games to entertain the VIPs.
“A new child child represents innocence, and I believe there’s one other theme that’s expressed by means of the beginning of the newborn, the place it’s a part of Gi-hun’s wrestle of wanting to guard innocence in a merciless and brutal world, which is the video games,” Lee mentioned. “And once you see the VIPs, it’s virtually as in the event that they welcome the newborn being born, as a result of it’s a newly added leisure issue to their spectacle. And so by displaying that, the distinction between the VIPs, who need to use this for their very own leisure, and Gi-hun’s wrestle to guard the newborn, I believe that story construction itself actually makes it nail-biting and unpredictable. And I believed it was an incredible concept and functionality of Director Hwang.”
The Entrance Man/In-ho and Gi-hun differ of their beliefs about humanity till In-ho has a change of coronary heart after Gi-hun’s sacrifice, however even earlier than that, Lee Byung-hun says he noticed The Entrance Man’s sliver of sympathy for the newborn.
“With the newborn’s beginning, it undoubtedly actually rattles The Entrance Man, and shakes one thing inside him,” Lee Byung-hun mentioned. “Whereas his facial expressions are masked, when he’s with the VIPs, he feels prefer it’s virtually his responsibility to appear to be fully ready and fully in charge of the scenario. The fundamental setup of the story is that he contains the newborn within the video games as a result of he desires to entertain the VIPs. Nevertheless, I consider that deep down, below all of that, part of him does that as a result of he desires to offer the newborn an opportunity, and he desires the newborn to outlive. I believe you’ll discover once you watch these seasons that The Entrance Man appears to have a particular place in his coronary heart for Jun-hee and the newborn, and I consider that’s due to his precise private experiences together with his spouse and youngster.”
After a lot time spent collectively below false pretenses in Season 2, Gi-hun and The Entrance Man/In-ho share their first scene collectively in Season 3 towards the tip of the collection when The Entrance Man reveals his true identification to Gi-hun. When Gi-hun meets The Entrance Man in his workplace, he lastly learns that this is similar man who performed alongside him within the video games as his good friend in Season 2. Up till that second, Gi-hun had no concept that In-ho was the one behind all of this, and was the one who killed his greatest good friend Jung-bae.
“The extent of betrayal and the sensation of realizing that he had been mocked and deceived and ridiculed virtually, and realizing that that is the one that had killed his treasured good friend, Jung-bae — I believe the feelings that I felt as Gi-hun in that second, even once you examine it to all of my previous characters all through my profession, it’s some of the intense ones, the place the sense of searching for revenge got here so naturally,” Lee Jung-jae mentioned. “And I believe it actually was one thing that allowed me to really feel that sense of rage and and revenge in a really intense means towards each the VIPs and The Entrance Man.”
Throughout that showdown between Gi-hun and The Entrance Man, which is the ultimate scene they share collectively in “Squid Recreation,” The Entrance Man makes Gi-hun the identical provide In-ho was given by Squid Recreation creator Oh Il-nam when he entered the competitors years in the past: the prospect to stab all the opposite gamers to dying of their sleep, saving himself and the newborn. In-ho making the provide is each a egocentric and a selfless one.
“That scene, I had loads of completely different feelings going by means of me because the character,” Lee Byung-hun mentioned. “Whereas it’s true that part of him actually desires to avoid wasting Gi-hun and the newborn, even higher than that, and stronger than that, is his function, his main function of eager to fully make Gi-hun’s beliefs which are deemed noble to be collapsed. And I believe it was virtually a check the place The Entrance man is considering, ‘It doesn’t matter what you do, you’re going to finish up like me.’ And so when he arms him the knife, if Gi-hun did what In-ho did up to now, clearly, that might have most likely pushed In-ho into even higher despair, as a result of that solely proves that there isn’t a hope. I believe part of him would even have felt a way of victory.”
