Squid Game’s Sinister Front Man on His Character’s Surprising Season 2 Arc

Squid Game 2 Finally here! If you haven’t binged the episodes yet on netflixNow turn away, because this is an interview with the star Lee Byung Hun reveals story for his characterThe Front Man—Someone we barely knew in the first season, but who plays a much bigger role this time around. io9 had a chance to ask Lee more about what it was like to revisit and significantly expand his previously highly enigmatic role.

As season two unfolds, Front Man takes a much more active role in the games: he’s actually one of the contestants, a shocking revelation that comes a few episodes after we’ve already seen him in his masked-man incarnation.

For Lee, digging into the front man—his real name is In-ho, but he introduces himself as “Yong-il” in-game—was an acting joy.

“In the first season, I played the role of the frontman as a cameo,” he explained to io9 and other journalists through a translator. Squid Game 2 Press event. “And the character was limited to an operational role with the mask on. In the second season, the mask comes off and you get more and I can tell more about his story.

Thanks to the events of season one, we know that In-ho — the brother of determined police detective Joon-ho, whose Squid Game quest for justice is a staple of seasons one and two — is a past winner of the Games.

“[Season two explores] Why he got into the first squid game in the first place, how he became this very pessimistic person,” Lee said. “He revealed his backstory in season two. [the] He is playing games with other people. He creates this fake persona, almost a new character, and deceives the people he plays games with. So in the end, it’s almost as if you get three different types of characters within a single character. There’s the front man, there’s In-ho, and then there’s Yeong-il.”

He continued. “As an actor, being able to play a character that has such complex and multi-faceted aspects to him is both challenging and very, very enjoyable to do as a performer. And as the degree I will show each of the different elements of the character, that the director had something [Hwang Dong-hyuk] And I will have an ongoing conversation about this so that we can fix it.”

The Front Man’s journey still has a ways to go, as the season two finale certainly showed—especially since none of the players have yet figured out who Player 001 is. really either watch Squid Game 2 Now on Netflix.

Want more io9 news? See when the latest is expected Marvel, Star WarsAnd Star Trek What’s next for the release? The DC Universe in Film and TVAnd everything you need to know about its future Who is the doctor?.