Lee Jung-Jae always played villain roles in most previous films

Lee Jung-Jae, who played Seong Gi-Hun (A.K.A Player 456), wasn’t always the kind-hearted person we saw in Squid Game. He was always cast as the bad guy. Fans watched him play the villain in The Face Reader and Deliver Us From Evil.

“I was in a phase where I was contemplating what my next project should be. Because as I got older, the roles I was offered were mostly villains or other such fierce characters. And just as I was hoping to show a different type of acting, the series’ director Hwang Dong-hyuk offered me the role of Gi-hun. I wanted to portray an everyday kind of character.” – Lee Jung-jae