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Cho Hyun-ju (Korean: 조현주), also known as Player 120, is a character in the second season of South Korean Netflix drama Squid Game.In the series, she is a highly skilled and highly trained ex-Special Forces soldier until she was discharged after coming out as a trans woman, further losing family support and employment.
One of the breakout new characters in Squid Game season 2 is Hyun-ju, a transgender woman who is a former special forces soldier entering the game to win money to complete her gender-affirming ...
Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk is explaining why cisgender actor Park Sung-hoon was cast as transgender character Hyun-ju in season 2. Hwang, 53, who also wrote and directed both seasons, knew ...
Park Sung-hoon knew there would be pressure placed on him after taking on the role of Cho Hyun-ju, a trans woman in “Squid Game” Season 2 who participates as a player in the games in order to ...
Prior to the season's release, the casting choice of Park Sung-hoon as transgender ex-soldier Hyun-Ju was controversial due to some wanting a trans person to authentically portray their experiences. Criticism fell on both the casting of a cisgender person for the role instead of a transgender person, as well as for casting a man in particular ...
Squid Game: Former special forces soldier and trans woman who enters the Squid Game to fund her gender-affirming surgery. [54] (2021–Present) Chris: Theo Germaine: Work in Progress: Chris is a young trans man, barista, and boyfriend to the lead character. [55] Germain appears in all episodes of the show but is credited as a special guest star.
Image credits: FilmEasterEggs #2 The Trans Player Seems To Be Based On A Real-Life Person. Byun Hui-su was South Korea's first transgender soldier. Byun had a promising career as a cisgender man ...
Squid Game (Korean: 오징어 게임) is a South Korean dystopian survival thriller horror television series created, written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk for Netflix.The series revolves around a secret contest where 456 players, all of whom are in deep financial hardship, risk their lives to play a series of deadly children's games for the chance to win a ₩45.6 billion prize.