Squid Game: Front Man's Empathy Toward The Players Explained By Actor

Perhaps the strangest character in "Squid Game" is the Front Man , aka Player 001, aka Hwang In-ho (Lee Byung-hun). Whatever objections we have to his day job are overshadowed by our perplexity and desire to understand what, exactly, makes this man tick. We know from the reactions of his brother, Hwang Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon), that the Front Man didn't used to be this way. So, what happened?

These are the questions that Lee himself struggled with throughout "Squid Game" season 2, in which his character pretends to be a player in the games and forms actual relationships with the other contestants. The Front Man even appears empathetic towards the people he's essentially torturing, a fascinating contradiction that's never fully explained.

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