{"id":18787,"date":"2025-06-27T10:17:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/18787\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T10:17:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:17:54","slug":"cate-blanchett-makes-surprise-cameo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/18787\/","title":{"rendered":"Cate Blanchett Makes Surprise Cameo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFans around the world were ready for some big twists from the series finale of Netflix<\/a>\u2018s smash-hit dystopian thriller Squid Game<\/a> \u2014 but arguably no one saw this surprise coming (warning: spoilers ahead<\/strong>).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the final moments of the show\u2019s last episode, the Squid Game universe suddenly gets a whole lot more global, when the camera jumps to California to find a character played by none other than two-time Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett on the streets of Los Angeles, recruiting potential American players to join what one must assume is a U.S. version of the show\u2019s eponymous death game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe brief moment provides an instant answer to the widespread industry speculation about how Netflix would continue, or create a spinoff for its most globally popular show of all time. For now, all we know is that a new American storyline for the hit Korean series has been seeded. More details about what Blanchett\u2019s cameo portends for the future of the Squid Game franchise \u2014 who might direct a new U.S. season, who else would star, and how involved will series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk be \u2014 can be expected from Netflix in the weeks and months ahead. In the meantime, Squid Game fans across the globe have a whole new death and drama-packed season to digest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tNetflix dropped all six episodes of the final, third season of Squid Game at midnight on Friday, Pacific Time, just six months after the premiere of the second season late last year. Adding a few dozen more deaths to the harrowing but candy-colored show\u2019s already enormous kill count, Season 3 brought the curtain down on the story of protagonist Gi-Hun (Lee Jung-jae), as the everyman hero made his final face-off against the game\u2019s dark overseer, The Front Man (Lee Byung-hun). The season had plenty of surprises besides Oscar-winning actresses, too \u2014\u00a0most notably the inclusion of an innocent newborn infant as a contestant in the game, an upping of the show\u2019s anti-capitalist moral stakes to their logical extreme.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe original season of the Korean dystopian drama shocked the world after its debut on Netflix in September 2021, rapidly becoming the streamer\u2019s most-watched show ever, and later winning a pair of Emmys for\u00a0its creator\u00a0and star. The first season\u2019s unprecedented success heaped enormous pressure on series creator Hwang, who famously writes and directs every episode of the show single-handedly. But season two nonetheless delivered, setting a record for the most views of a series or film on Netflix in its premiere week, and eventually rising to become the streamer\u2019s third most popular show of all time.\u00a0Now, Squid Game\u2018s fate is back in the hands of the audience, as the world makes its way through season three. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe casting of Blanchett lends instant artistic heft to whatever comes next for Squid Game. The Australian actress has been nominated for eight Academy Awards and won twice (for Martin Scorsese\u2019s The Aviator and Woody Allen\u2019s Blue Jasmine), and also been nominated for two Emmys (Mrs. America) and won four Golden Globes from 13 nominations. She\u2019s also known for picking her artistic collaborators carefully and tends to only work with top auteurs. Recent roles include the leads in Alfonso Cuaron\u2019s critically acclaimed Apple TV+ series Disclaimer, Todd Fields\u2019 T\u00e1r, Guy Maddin\u2019s Rumors and Steven Soderbergh\u2019s Black Bag.\u00a0Blanchett also has considerable ddakji skills and packs a mean, full-wind-up slap \u2014 as evidenced by season three\u2019s stirring final moments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans around the world were ready for some big twists from the series finale of Netflix\u2018s smash-hit dystopian…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3774,171,1801,4659,17788,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-18787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-international","11":"tag-netflix","12":"tag-squid-game","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114754820983355193","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}