This text incorporates spoilers from Squid Recreation Season 1 that affect the plot of Season 2.
Wi Ha-jun has performed a number of memorable supporting roles in Gyeongseong Creature and Little Girls, earlier than touchdown one among his largest roles but within the history-making Squid Recreation 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 seek out the island the place one other instalment of the violent, winner-takes-all recreation 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 screen.”
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 reality and notice justice was one thing that I actually liked about him as an individual,” says Wi. “I additionally thought that he’s the sort of individual that we’d like today. So I discovered quite a bit 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 a lot of administrators and actors stateside that Wi desires to work with, he highlights Christopher Nolan as one amongst his dream record.
“I actually revere Christopher Nolan,” says Wi. “If I do have a possibility, I feel I want to act in an motion style piece and present what Ok-action may be. I do know that Lee Byung-hun has already accomplished an excellent job on this, however I hope that I can present a special side of it too.”
For the second season of Squid Recreation, Wi embraced the physicality of enjoying Jun-ho as he crosses land and sea to seek 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 together with his mom by his bedside.
Wi provides that he grew a beard for the scene and likewise misplaced weight to symbolize 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 an important key phrase that Squid Recreation creator and director Hwang Dong-hyuk gave him to information his efficiency was “steadiness,” 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 by way of emotion,” says Wi. “Regardless that he’s personally going by way of a variety of emotional turmoil, he nonetheless has to relentlessly search and obtain his objectives, to the very finish. That’s the route I acquired from the director and it helped me quite a bit in performing.”
