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Jung Ho-yeonwasn’t as sad about herSquid Gamecharacter’s death as you might think — in fact, quite the opposite.
“Maybe it’s weird to say it, but while I’m shooting my death scene, I was so happy,” Jung said. “It was the most comfortable scene I ever had.”
“It’s because I’ve been living with my character over a few months, and then there is a time that I have to let her go, and I kind of feel like I can happily let her go, because I can understand,” she added. “Maybe not fully, but I’m the one who can understand her most in this world, so I know her stress, and I know how her life was [such a] struggle and hard. So it wasn’t that bad or sad.”
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“Most of them are dead. I’ll try something to bring them back to season 2,” he told Deadline in March, before using Jung as an example. “Let’s say maybe she has a twin sister, you’ll see.”
“I could change my hair color. Let’s do a little, like, plastic surgery,” Jung joked in response.
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Jung previously toldVoguethat her"entire life changed in just one month"after her breakout performance in the Netflix drama, whichearned her a Screen Actors Guild Award.
“The feeling, there’s a limit to what words can express,” said Jung, noting that she lost eight pounds due to the anxiety. “I don’t know why, but I couldn’t eat. I was so confused, and it was so chaotic. I didn’t believe it. I didn’t trust it.”
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Season 1 ofSquid Gameis streaming in its entirety on Netflix.
source: people.com
