South Korean actor Park Hae Soo has more to celebrate than the international success of his latest show, Squid Game. The actor and his wife recently welcomed their first child, a boy, his agency announced on September 29. Park, 39, and his wife, who is not a celebrity, tied the knot in 2019. “It’s true that Park Hae Soo’s wife recently gave birth to their first son, and Park Hae Soo is now father, ”Park representatives at BH Entertainment said in a media statement, AllKPop reports.
Although many viewers may first see Park in Squid Game, he is a veteran actor in South Korea. He made his television debut in 2012, with God of War. His other credits include Six Flying Dragons, Legend of the Blue Sea, The Liar and his Love, Prison Playbook and Memories of the Alhambra. He also appeared in a segment of Persona, a series also available on Netflix. Park can be seen in Time to Hunt, a Netflix action thriller released in April 2020. He starred in several theatrical productions in South Korea between 2007 and 2015.
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Park’s next project is Chimera, which also stars Claudia Kim (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald) and Lee Hee-joon (The King of Drugs), reports NME. In the series, Park plays a detective investigating new murders linked to a series of murders 35 years earlier. The show will air on OCN in South Korea from October 30. It’s unclear who will release the series in the English-speaking world, but the success of Squid Game could spark interest in the project.
Squid Game was written, directed and created by Hwang Dong-hyuk and released on Netflix worldwide on September 17th. Park plays Cho Sang-woo, the head of an investment team wanted by police for stealing money from his clients. His character is among the players competing in the titular Squid Game to win 45.6 billion won (approximately $ 38.7 million). The only catch is that the challenges are child’s play with deadly consequences.
The show received positive reviews from critics and an overwhelmingly positive response from Netflix subscribers. It reached No. 1 for Netflix’s Most Watched TV Shows in 90 countries, including the United States. While Netflix could hope for more, Hwang told Variety he has no plans to do a second season anytime soon.
“I wanted to write a story that is an allegory or a fable about modern capitalist society, something that portrays extreme competition, much like the extreme competition of life. But I wanted her to use the kind of characters we’ve all met in real life, ”Hwang told Variety. “As a survival game, it’s about entertainment and human drama. The games described are extremely simple and easy to understand. This allows viewers to focus on the characters, rather than being distracted trying to interpret the rules. ”
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