Lee Byung-Hun, who plays The Frontman in Squid Game, made his Tonight Show debut and teased some details about the third and final season of the Korean smash hit series as well as a possible spinoff.
When asked by Jimmy Fallon whether there will be a Frontman spinoff, Byung-Hun answered positively using the infamous voting buttons on the show. He did quickly follow that up by saying, “There is a possibility we’ll never knows what happens.”
The Frontman plays a more integral role in seasons two and three as the show’s protagonist, Seong Gi-hun, also known as Player 456 (Lee Jung-jae), continues to fight to stop the murder of hundreds of people for the whims of the VIPs.
The third season, which returns to Netflix on June 27, picks up from the season two cliffhanger as Gi-hun is dealing with the loss of his closest ally Jung-bae and deals with the impact of the Frontman infiltrating the rebellion as a player.
Byung-Hun admitted that he didn’t know whether the show would be a hit. “When I first read the script, it was a very interesting story with a very unique structure but at the same time it was experimental so I thought either it’d be a huge hit or a complete flop,” he added.
He also revealed that he didn’t tell people close to him that he was even in the show. “Netflix asked me to keep it as a secret so I didn’t say it to anyone, my close friends or my mom. One day after Squid Game opened and yelled at me and said ‘How could you not tell me?’,” he said.
Byung-Hun has had a long career in South Korea but has also appeared in a number of Hollywood movies including playing Storm Shadow in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and its sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation, starring alongside Bruce Willis in Red 2, playing T-1000 in Terminator Genisys and Billy Rocks in The Magnificant Seven.
He compared walking in the Frontman outfit to playing a ninja like he did in G.I. Joe.
“Squid Game is a Korean story by a Korean director with Korean actors and Korean language so when I first came to LA and New York for Squid Game, I was so shocked by the fans’ reaction. I’m so proud of it,” he added.
A Frontman spinoff, if indeed creator Director Hwang would want to do it, would be the latest addition to the Squid Game universe. David Fincher is also developing a U.S. remake of the series.
