
RELATED: Sydney Leroux, Champ Pederson to be Enshrined into the Little League® Hall of Excellence Macias into its Hall of Excellence, the highest honor that Little League can bestow. Of course, the actress in that tape was none other than Jung Ho Yeon! He said her audition “almost felt like a gift sent by God.” She even looked like the version of Kang Sae Byeok he had in his head! If you’ve seen Squid Game, you know that Jung Ho Yeon totally nailed her role and brought the complex character to life beautifully, and you may have never guessed that this was her first time acting in a K-Drama.įrom Hwang Dong Hyuk’s kind words about Jung Ho Yeon and Anupam Tripathi, it’s clear that they were totally the perfect people for their roles and that they deserve all the recognition they’re getting and more.Angel Macias, the only pitcher to ever pitch a perfect game in the Little League Baseball® World Series championship game, joins the Little League® Hall of Excellence Class of 2017.Īngel Macias, the only pitcher to ever pitch a perfect game in the Little League Baseball ® World Series final has served as a major influencer in the growth of baseball in Mexico, and because of his commitment to growing the game, Little League ® International will enshrine Mr. He said an audition tape came in one day, and he finally found the person he was looking for. He said, “I couldn’t find the perfect person for this role.” Hwang Dong Hyuk also had a hard time finding the right person for the role of Kang Sae Byeok.

His emotional acting was amazing, too.” Anyone who’s seen Squid Game knows just how much emotion Anupam Tripathi put into his lines as Ali, especially when he realized he’d been fatally betrayed by Cho Sang Woo in the episode entitled Gganbu. Hwang Dong Hyuk said, “He was fluent in Korean and he could act.

He said he was worried about finding a good actor to play Ali because there weren’t a lot of good foreign actors in South Korea.Īnupam Tripathi appeared “out of the blue,” and he was the perfect fit for the role. Luckily for Hwang Dong Hyuk and all of us who can’t get enough of Squid Game, he found the perfect person for each role. In “The Squid Game Cast React To Their Own Show,” Hwang Dong Hyuk revealed that he already had Lee Jung Jae in mind for the role of Seong Gi Hun and Park Hae Soo in mind for the role of Cho Sang Woo, but he wanted to give the roles of Kang Sae Byeok, Ali Abdul and Oh Il Nam ( Oh Yeong Su) to lesser-known actors.
