The director of Squid Game, Hwang Dong-hyuk, discusses the decision to include Hyun-ju, the show's first transgender character, in season 2. He highlights the importance of representation for marginalized groups and hopes that Hyun-ju's character will raise awareness about the challenges faced by transgender individuals in Korean society.
—including Hyun-ju, aka Player 120, the show’s first trans character. She joins the competition hoping to earn enough money to complete her gender affirming surgery, and she proves to be both a quick-thinking leader and, thanks to her former career as a soldier, an absolute badass., director and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk spoke to a group of journalists, including io9, about why he wanted to include a trans character this time around.
While this practice used to be very common in the West—one recent example: Eddie Redmayne was Oscar-nominated for playing a trans woman in 2015’s—it’s now something casting directors and creators steer away from, instead preferring to have trans performers play trans characters. However, culture in South Korea isn’t there yet, as Hwang told TV Guide.
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