Cate Blanchett Does not Know If Her ‘Squid Sport’ Cameo Will Result in Extra (However She’d Prefer it to)

That surprising finale coda of Hwang Dong-hyuk’s Squid Game series left many inquisitive about what it meant for the American spin-off Netflix has within the works. When the Entrance Man (Lee Byung-hun) pauses subsequent to an alley in downtown Los Angeles, you witness, together with him, the Squid Sport recruitment ritual being administered by a new face: Cate Blanchett, carrying a swimsuit and providing up the Ddakji slaps.

It’s arduous to consider the Academy Award-winning actress was solely recruited for a one-off cameo right after she claimed to be retired. In an interview with Variety, Blanchett mentioned how the visitor function got here to be and what it’d imply for her future within the franchise. “As a result of it’s such a cult sequence and so they had been taking pictures in L.A. of all locations, everybody was on a need-to-know foundation,” she stated of the “out of the blue provide” that stipulated she convey her personal swimsuit.

“I obtained a few storyboards. I needed to [learn to] play the sport in a short time. I needed to observe and observe. I knew there have been 4 or 5 setups that they had been going to do, and I knew what they wanted from each shot, after which I used to be given the perimeters. Nevertheless it was one of many extra mysterious jobs.”

Blanchett defined that whereas her function was a characteristic on the sequence finale, she’d take into account returning. “I’m wildly open to something,” she shared with the commerce, “and in a world that’s so superbly, magically created like that, for positive. They’re superb world-builders, and that sequence has been eaten alive. I don’t assume there’s a nook of the globe that it hasn’t touched not directly.”

What’s so playfully suspicious about her solutions is that Netflix has enlisted David Fincher for his tackle the American Squid Sport spin-off. And he occurs to be a filmmaker Blanchett labored with on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, so what provides? Nothing, apparently, simply coincidence. The actress affirmed to Selection, “I imply, I’d like to work with David once more. It’s been ages. However no, I don’t know something greater than you do. I’m not being coy. I actually don’t.”

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