The VIPs didn’t get VIP remedy within the final edit of Squid Sport this season.

The Korean present’s editor Nam Na-young tells Leisure Weekly that she really cut “loads” of scenes from the final season that includes the wealthy, merciless VIPs who guess on the gamers’ lives in the course of the video games.

“Really, there have been extra scenes with the VIPs,” Nam says. “As I used to be enhancing, I did cut them loads as a result of once we’re within the VIP room, the stress type of releases. The contestants’ feelings and reactions of the video games have been what I prioritized when enhancing.”

That is not the one secret revealed in EW’s “It Takes a Village” video above, that includes Nam together with star Lee Jung-jae, creator-director Hwang Dong-hyuk, manufacturing designer Chae Kyoung-sun, cinematographer Kim Ji-yong, and composer Jung Jae-il. The artistic team behind Squid Sport breaks down the making of the extreme Soar Rope sport in season 3, which the star reveals was essentially the most troublesome of your entire collection.

When it got here to constructing the set, the creator says that your entire team has to assume just like the present’s “mastermind” behind the video games who wished to return to childhood on the finish of his life — much like Citizen Kane‘s Rosebud.

The manufacturing designer interpreted that as desirous to go dwelling, which is why she invoked the sensation of a practice station that many individuals in Korea take to go dwelling on holidays. In the meantime, the enormous robots who swing the rope, Chul-soo and Younger-hee, have been modeled after well-known characters in Korean elementary college textbooks.

“We designed Younger-hee and Chul-soo’s outfits to appear to be youngsters dressed their finest for his or her journey dwelling,” Chae says. “With their footwear being fairly and clear. And with Younger-hee, we wanted to concentrate to the house in between her legs, as a result of actors needed to go by means of them — the visible design was necessary. One of the final issues we did is put stockings on her, and as we have been making these updates, we designed flowers on them.”

Whereas the autumn from the platform is deadly for the gamers within the sport, it was loads safer in actual life for the actors — though some have been nonetheless terrified.

“The precise set was about 5 ft off the bottom,” Hwang reveals. “Even that that top, the actors felt the concern of heights.”

Each division, from manufacturing design to stunts to visible results, needed to work intently collectively to ensure nobody bought harm whereas filming this scene.

“I wasn’t rigged up on a wire for this,” Lee says. “Should you fell, it might harm.”

No less than the actors weren’t in danger of getting hit by an actual steel pole.

“The soar rope is definitely CGI,” Lee reveals. “There have been beeps for when the rope can be going round, then an extended beep would sign that it’s at our ft. However that wasn’t really easy, maintaining to the beat.”

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Watch the video above now to see the complete interview, together with how music was used so as to add stress to the scene, how they “leveled up” the VIP lounge set, and extra.

The final season of Squid Sport is now streaming on Netflix.