Creating “Squid Game” is just as dangerous as playing it. Hwang Dong-hyuk, the mastermind behind the South Korean thriller series on Netflix, recently told the BBC he lost “eight or nine” teeth filming the first season of the show. In a 2022 ...

There is a lot to look forward to in Season 2 of Squid Game when the series returns on December 26 and will see the return of Lee Jung-jae, Lee Byung-hun, Wi Ha-joon, and Gong Yoo, in addition to some new faces. Those with a Netflix subscription should prepare themselves because it’s going to be a season you won’t want to miss.

Making the global hit series Squid Game can be hazardous for the teeth and not too healthy for the pocket either, according to its director Hwang Dong-hyuk. The South Korean director told BBC that he’d lost “eight or nine” teeth due to the stress of making Season 1, instead of the six initially reported.

Hwang Dong-hyuk is speaking to me on set as he films the second series of his dystopian Netflix thriller, which sees hundreds of debt-laden contestants fight it out for a whopping cash prize, by playing a string of life-or-death children’s games.

Hwang Dong-hyuk also talks the stress he experienced making Season 1 of the Netflix smash hit, losing "eight or nine teeth" in the process.