{"id":219316,"date":"2025-06-27T18:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/219316\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T18:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:50:10","slug":"squid-game-ends-three-season-run-with-surprise-oscar-winner-cameo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/219316\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Squid Game&#8217; Ends Three-Season Run With Surprise Oscar Winner Cameo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>SPOILER ALERT:<\/strong> This story contains major spoilers from <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/squid-game\/\" id=\"auto-tag_squid-game\" data-tag=\"squid-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Squid Game<\/a>\u2018s finale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\" data-tag=\"netflix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix<\/a>\u2018s hit Korean series Squid Game wrapped up its three-season run with an Oscar winner\u2019s surprise cameo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn the final scene of Season 3, Front Man (In ho), played by Lee Byung-hun, is seen stopped at a light in downtown Los Angeles where he sees a woman playing ddakji with a desperate man in an alleyway. The L.A.-based recruiter turns out to be two-time Oscar winner <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cate-blanchett\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cate-blanchett\" data-tag=\"cate-blanchett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cate Blanchett<\/a> who looks up and nods to Front Man as he drives away. Blanchett\u2019s attention then returns to her recruit, who insists on going another round. \u201cAs you wish,\u201d she smirks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs Deadline <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/10\/squid-game-david-fincher-tv-series-1236159538\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously exclusively reported<\/a>, according to sources, a new English-language Squid Game\u00a0series is being developed by David Fincher at the streamer, but there has been no official confirmation by Netflix. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSeason 3 continues to chronicle the physical and philosophical struggle between Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), who\u2019s determined to take down the dehumanizing games once and for all, and Front Man (Lee Byung-hun), who desperately wants to break Gi-hun\u2019s faith in humanity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSquid\u00a0Game\u00a0made\u00a0Emmy history\u00a0with first-ever wins for a non-English language show and Season 2 was nominated for a\u00a0Golden Globe\u00a0for Best Television Series \u2013 Drama. Season 2 currently ranks No. 2 with 192.6 million views just behind Season 1 at 265.2 million, according to the streamer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT: This story contains major spoilers from Squid Game\u2018s finale. Netflix\u2018s hit Korean series Squid Game wrapped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[6882,77,451,74716,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-219316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-cate-blanchett","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-netflix","11":"tag-squid-game","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}