The first real footage from the second season of “Squid Game” arrived Thursday as part of Netflix’s Geeked Week celebrations, and now series creator/director Hwang Dong-hyuk has offered some new insights to about the new season. One thing he wants to make clear right off the bat – the bad hair dye job that Seong Gi-hun/Player 456 (Lee Jung-jae) got at the end of the first season is gone – Hwang laughs as he says “the red hair is no more”. There will, however, be a very brief part at the very start of the second season where Lee’s character has the hair with the actor saying that coming back and shooting with it “felt very strange, to say the least”.
Seong will be a quite different person in the second season which takes place three years later. The events of the first season and the time afterwards have changed him. Hwang says: “In season 2, you will not be getting the foolish and clumsy or childish at times Gi-hun that you saw in the beginning.
You will get to see a much heavier, darker side of Gi-hun.” The character’s mother died while he was away, his daughter moved to the States, and he carries a “huge amount of survivor’s guilt” from being the sole survivor of the prior games. So he’s spent three years planning his revenge: “He spent that time believing that these games must not continue, and he must put an end to it.
He spent that time trying to track down those who are behind the game.” Even with his new fortune, he hasn’t been a.