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I love reading about when the actors talk about the script and maybe wondering about stuff in it and then, instead of being like "I had a little bit of a different view on it but oh well I can't change anything", they instead talk about how they brought it up to the director and talked it through and then came up with something that feels good and right for both of them <3

Like.. I just can't bring myself to get mad at for example Lee Byung-hun suggesting to do stuff differently from the script and them actually talking about it and finding a compromise. That's collaboration, that's how you work well together in film and theatre. That's how you create realistic characters with nuance and depth. A director forcing the actors to do everything exactly the way he wrote it isn't fun and likely won't result in a good experience for the actors. But the fact that the actors felt comfortable enough to question and sometimes disagree, or more like explain their own interpretation of the script, instead of just going with Hwang Dong-hyuk's directing no questions asked is a sign of the Squid Game team working well together!!! I love that, that makes me so happy!!

I once did an internship at a theatre and the director of the play where I got to be present for the rehearsals regularly asked the actors for input on the characters and how they think something should be acted. And sometimes the actors there would also bring up their own ideas without being asked for them first. It seems like the same thing happened on the set for Squid Game. Why is that a bad thing? How is that "the director not knowing their own characters"? That's collaboration, that's teamwork, that's compromising and working towards ending up with the best and most fleshed out version of a character. Like that's so cool, that's the best. Obviously I don't know how it actually was for Squid Game, but I've heard quite a bit about how a lot of directors can be very self centered and unwillig to listen to any criticism and Hwang Dong-hyuk just really doesn't seem like he's that kind of director. As far as I know the actors really liked working with him. I just don't understand how he is being so villainized for being a good director

No, fr. Because I have seen someone say that it was a sign of bad writing that LBH had to make an interpretation of his own character... Like, no? Lol.