It’s safe to say that the original player 222, Jun-hee, does not have a great time in Netflix’s Squid Game. She gives birth during the hide and seek game. Then she gives up her one chance at surviving the jump rope challenge, to protect her baby. Crucially, Jun-hee chooses not to get help from her ex Myung-gi, but to entrust her baby to the hero Gi-hun instead. The actor who portrays Jun-hee in Netflix’s Squid Game, Jo Yu-ri, has revealed when her character stopped trusting Myung-gi.
Yu-ri told The Wrap that her character had been losing faith in Myung-gi’s morals throughout the course of season two and season three of Squid Game. “He also partners with Nam-gyu to kill others, and that also comes across as very shocking for Jun-hee. That’s the point where she starts to see him as inhumane and not as a human being. That was one of the points where she decides she can’t fully rely on Myung-gi to take care of her child.”
Apparently Jun-hee’s trust in Myung-gi was also shaken when he killed Jun-hee’s friend Hyun-ju. Fair enough.
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The scene in which Jun-hee reject’s Myung-gi’s help once and for all was a really emotional part of Squid Game for Yu-ri to film. She explained to The Hollywood Reporter: “The scene where she decides to give Gi-hun the baby was definitely a super emotionally intense scene. I really tried my best to portray that sense of emotion and how torn she was.”
Yu-ri didn’t know what the baby’s fate would be at that point, because she wasn’t shown scripts beyond her character’s death.
“It was really emotionally difficult, especially my last conversation with Gi-hun. I really felt my emotions just spilling over and exploding. But the director asked me to pull it back a little bit, actually, and to keep it a bit more restrained. I remember that was even harder to do.
“My scene with Myung-gi is one I absolutely love because it was my audition scene. Jun-hee’s words, especially in that scene, are so heartbreaking, and I found myself relating to when she is asking Myung-gi, ‘With my foot like this, are you going to, what, carry me across?’ Even after the cameras stopped rolling, I just could not stop crying.”
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