Not only Marvel has a Thanos, but also Squid Game. In the Netflix series, the villain is played by a real rapper. Image source: Netflix
Squid Game breathed new life into Choi Seung-Hyun's career. After a Marijuana scandal around 2017, the South Korean rapper with the artist name Top in his home country was literally outlawed and even sentenced to a prison sentence.
Almost eight years later, Seung-Hyun now celebrated a comeback what he His role as Thanos in the Netflix series Squid Game owe to. Not only because of his purple hair, the villain stabs a total of 456 players, like a colorful bird of paradise – Thanos is eccentric, front and fire dangerous.
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The actor of Thanos could hardly wait for his series death
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For these reasons, too, Choi Seung-Hyun is damn glad that Thano's season 2 of Squid Game did not survive. In fact, the rapper dies with a weakness for cryptocurrencies in the penultimate episode when he is stabbed by Lee Myung-Gi (in the Si-Wan) on the toilet of the game barracks.
Cano's abrupt death was also criticized by some spectators, since the moment of the story is quite suddenly and at an arbitrary moment of the story. But this is precisely his actor that sees great strengthlike him in one In -house interview by Netflix reveals:
Thanos is constantly under the influence of drugs, it is dangerous. When I first read in the script, how he dies, I honestly thought: But that is also time! In my opinion, his death was overdue and that he deserved to die.
I am actually also grateful to the director and his team because they make Thanos' death to a point of the action that seems almost arbitrary. It was much more effective.
There will be no reunion with Thanos in season 3 by Squid Game. The final season starts on June 27, 2025 At Netflix.
Incidentally, for the time afterwards, the series creator does not rule out to return to the Squid Game universe. Hwang Dong-Hyuk has already thought about spin-offs about the front man (Lee Byung-Hun) or the recruitment (Gong Yoo).
Meanwhile, cult director David Fincher (seven, Fight Club) also works on a new TV series that takes place in the universe of South Korean Squid Game. What this project is about and when it should appear is currently not known.
