made a point to specify that industry chatter of him losing six teeth during the initial production wasn’t accurate. In fact, he lost more than that. “It was eight or nine,” he told the publication during a conversation conducted on the set of the ...

Creating “Squid Game” is just as dangerous as playing it. Hwang Dong-hyuk, the mastermind behind the South Korean thriller series on Netflix, recently told the BBC he lost “eight or nine” teeth filming the first season of the show.

"Squid Game" creator Hwang Dong-hyuk says he lost teeth from the stress of making the first season and explains his motivations for making Season 2.