Netflix star apologises after ‘leaking major spoiler’ 6 months before finale

*Warning: Contains major spoilers for Squid Game season 3.*

A leading star of one of Netflix’s biggest hits has apologised after apparently leaking a major plot point six months before the finale.

Squid Game recently returned for its third and final season after becoming a global sensation in 2021 and continuing with season two earlier this year.

The thriller series followed the story of hundreds of contestants enrolled into a contest that sees them play deadly children’s games for a massive cash prize.

Squid Game made international stars of leading actor Lee Jung-jae, who portrayed protagonist Seong Gi-hun, and series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk.

The South Korean dystopian drama introduced Park Gyu-young in season two as Kang No-eul – a former soldier and defector from North Korea who is a Pink Guard.

Pink Guards are the members of staff who manage, oversee, and enforce the rules of Squid Game, often being the ones to kill players when they are eliminated from the game.

However, becoming a star of a major series means you’re tasked with keeping a lot of information secret – and sometimes those secrets can slip out.

Gyu-young, 31, has now apologised after seemingly spoiling the final six episodes of Squid Game several months before they were released by Netflix.

In January, a few weeks after the release of season two, she published a behind-the-scenes photograph of herself wearing the series’ famous Pink Guard outfit.

The final two seasons were released only six months apart, with season two launching on Boxing Day last year.

In the background of the photo published by Gyu-young, another actor from the show – Lee Jin-wook, who plays Player 246 – could be seen wearing a Pink Guard outfit.

After fans deduced it was Jin-wook in the photograph, they realised that they’d seemingly uncovered a major plot point – Player 246 was going to disguise himself as one of Pink Guards.

Gyu-young said (via JoongAng Daily): ‘There’s no excuse — it was a foolish mistake, and I’ve reflected deeply on it. Honestly, I felt a huge sense of guilt.’

When it was revealed that she’d accidentally spoiled the show, she said she ‘blamed [herself] a lot and really reflected a lot on the responsibility that an actor should carry within a project’.

‘I also spent a lot of time thinking about what it means to be more careful and deliberate as an actor. It led me to deeply reflect on myself in many ways,’ she said.

Gyu-young has said that Netflix didn’t punish her or seek compensation from her, but instead reminded her that she should be more careful with her social media posts in the future.

Watch Squid Game seasons 1-3 on Netflix.

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