Jung Ho-yeon’s Favorite ‘Squid Game’ Scene Was An Early Reminder To Herself That ‘You Are Enough’

Welcome to My Favorite Scene! In this series, IndieWire speaks to actors behind a few of our favorite television performances about their personal-best onscreen moment and how it came together.Jung Ho-yeon, one of the breakout stars of Netflix’s international smash hit “Squid Game,” and now an Emmy nominee for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, has grown to appreciate her debut performance as the indomitable Sae-byeok.Her favorite scene of the Hwang Dong-hyuk-helmed show happens to be one of the first ones she shot, where it is revealed through a conversation with her younger brother Cheol (Si-wan Park) that their family escaped North Korea, but have been separated from their parents at the border, so she needs money to bring them back into the country.The actress, speaking to IndieWire over Zoom, laughed remembering a conversation with her friend about the scene, where they told her,

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