October 17, 2021

Film & TV

'Squid Game' director lost over six teeth to stress while filming

'Squid Game' director reveals he lost nearly six of his teeth due to the show’s compounding stress

By Melanie Aiden October 17, 2021
'Squid Game' director lost over six teeth to stress while filming

Squid Game' director Hwang Dong-hyuk reveals he ended up losing over six of his teeth as a result of the stress of filming.

He opened up about it all while speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, and was even quoted saying, "Yeah, I mean, as you said, this was a nine-episode series and I was the only one who was writing the scripts and directing the whole thing, so it was a really physically, mentally, emotionally challenging task.”

"And the story doesn't exactly have the simplest concept, so as we were going along, new ideas were coming to me, or I would see flaws that I felt needed to be corrected, so I was, in fact, revising the script as I was filming the whole series.”

He concluded by noting, "So that's partly why I had a huge amount of stress, which led to me losing six teeth during production, which I've mentioned in some other interviews.”