Could one of the biggest American movie stars be setting up for an appearance in the Korean drama that is taking over the world? Rumors are swirling, but Netflix is trying to stamp them out.
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00:00Could one of the biggest American movie stars be setting up for an appearance in the Korean
00:04drama that's taking over the world? Rumors are swirling, but Netflix is trying to stamp
00:08them out.
00:09A few different sources have reported that Leonardo DiCaprio has already shot scenes
00:13for the third season of Squid Game, which is set to hit Netflix sometime in 2025. South
00:17Korean online newspaper OSEN wrote in Korean on January 1,
00:21It is said that the amounts of screen time will not be long and the exact character,
00:24etc., are being kept under wraps due to concerns about spoilers.
00:28That seems to have led to a number of other places, like the ex-account K-Drama Handle
00:32picking up the rumor and reporting it, noting,
00:34Director Hong Dong-hyuk also revealed that DiCaprio is a fan of the series and had expressed
00:38interest in being part of it.
00:40Much of the rumor-spinning has featured a 2021 photo of Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae
00:44posted to his Instagram, where he can be seen standing with DiCaprio at that year's LACMA
00:48Art and Film Gala at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. BGR also noted that, in an
00:52interview at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2022, Jung-jae namedropped DiCaprio as
00:57the actor he'd most like to see on the show. At that year's Critics' Choice Awards, Jung-jae
01:01did it again, saying Leo was the show's biggest Hollywood fan.
01:04Definitely Leonardo DiCaprio.
01:08Before this rumor hits full speed, though, Netflix is screaming.
01:11Bye-bye!
01:12South Korean entertainment news website Soompi reached out to the streamer, and a representative
01:16replied with a statement,
01:17The rumors are completely false. Reports of Leonardo DiCaprio's involvement in Squid
01:22Game Season 3 are entirely unfounded. That's about as concrete of a denial as Netflix can
01:27give, but it hasn't stopped fans from continuing to speculate.
01:31After all, Squid Game is as popular as any piece of entertainment around right now. Variety
01:35reported that the show's second season broke a viewership record with 68 million views
01:39in just four days. It's not that far-fetched to think that a movie star would want in on
01:44that, right? Fans have been trying to figure out what role Leo could potentially play in
01:48the show, with many coming to the same conclusion.
01:50Most of the replies on KDramaHandle's post about the rumor involved DiCaprio likely playing
01:54one of the masked VIPs who watch the games from behind the scenes and gamble on their
01:59outcomes. Several others noted that Netflix has staunchly denied the rumor of DiCaprio's
02:03involvement.
02:04Even without Leo, Netflix is already making a big push for the third season of Squid Game,
02:08which is coming less than a year after the second, a big difference from the three-year
02:11gap between the first two seasons.
02:13A brief clip from the upcoming season posted to Axe shows a new robot named Chol-Soo, who
02:18looks poised to join the original red-light-green-light robot, Young-Hee, in tormenting the players
02:22competing for the big cash prize.