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The Shocking Parallels Between Thanos’ Story on Squid Games and the Actor’s Who Played Him · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Out of all the
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  Speaker 1: new characters you love to hate in the new season
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  Speaker 1: of Squid Games, there was none more villainous and snakier
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  Speaker 1: than ego maniacal rapper Thanos. Donos also deals with drug
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  Speaker 1: addiction and has a questionable reputation in the public eye
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  Speaker 1: in South Korea, and while K pop lovers might know,
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  Speaker 1: most American fans of this show aren't aware that the
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  Speaker 1: actor who plays Thanos actually has a similar story to
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  Speaker 1: Pool from He's the pop star Top, a member of
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  Speaker 1: the boy band Big Bang who also had a solo
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  Speaker 1: career until he was arrested on drug related charges, and
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  Speaker 1: Squid Games creator Huang Dong Hulk took a gamble casting
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  Speaker 1: Top because his career faltered after the scandal, but he
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  Speaker 1: feels Top took a risk as well. He tells people,
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  Speaker 1: I feel that it took him a lot of guts
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  Speaker 1: and away to especially portray a character who shares a
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  Speaker 1: lot of similarities that are quite negative to him as
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  Speaker 1: a person. It took him a lot of courage to
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  Speaker 1: take on that role despite the long hiatus. I have
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  Speaker 1: to say as a director, he performed very impressively and
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  Speaker 1: I'm very satisfied with what he did. Season two of
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  Speaker 1: Squid Games is streaming on Netflix. That's direct from Hollywood.