i The squid game In season two, a mother and son duo enter to try their luck and pay off the huge debts that are mounting on them.
But, in the game, they faced their worst fears, including the fear of dying at any moment in deadly games.
Yang Dong-geun, who played Yong-sik/Player 007, recalled the scene where he somewhat abandoned his mother to fend for himself.
“I didn’t really know exactly what emotion to express. We shot that scene over and over, and over, take after take… and in my personal life, I’m very distant from my mother. ,” he said EW.
“Actually my mother is very wild and scary – we don’t have the kind of relationship where we share our innermost thoughts or feelings, so it was weird to be on set and act like it’s a relationship between these two people. is,” the 45-year-old continued.
“It was hard to do that, to be able to express that honestly because it’s not really my lived reality.”
Kang E-sum, who plays Geum-ja/Player 149, said that her on-screen character did not harbor any ill feelings towards her son after apologizing.
“They are playing a game of life and death,” the actress told the outlet. “Instead of feeling this resentment over his betrayal, I think he’s really focused on the fact that his son is alive.”
“And since he’s alive, other things that happened in the game are less important,” he concluded.