'Squid Game' Star Lee Jung-jae Nabs Lead Role in Lucasfilm Star Wars Show
The actor who played Seong Gi-hun will star in an as-yet undisclosed role in The Acolyte, coming to Disney Plus.
- Co-author of two Gen X pop-culture encyclopedia for Penguin Books. Won "Headline Writer of the Year" award for 2017, 2014 and 2013 from the American Copy Editors Society. Won first place in headline writing from the 2013 Society for Features Journalism.
Lee Jung-jae starred in Squid Game, the huge Netflix 2021 hit.
Once you've won the Squid Game, what's next? For South Korean actor Lee Jung-jae, who played Seong Gi-hun in the hit 2021 Netflix series, it may be time to enter the Star Wars universe. According to Deadline, the actor will star in an upcoming new Disney Plus series, The Acolyte, from Lucasfilm.
Representatives for Lucasfilm did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Little has been publicly announced about The Acolyte. Disney Plus said in 2020 the show is "a mystery-thriller that will take viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging Dark Side powers in the final days of the High Republic era," Deadline reports.
Amandla Stenberg, who played young Rue in The Hunger Games, among other roles, also stars in the series. She tweeted in August that she felt honored to be joining the Star Wars world.
Looks like Lee Jung-jae will be busy. Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk says he has plans to bring the actor's character back in that show's much-anticipated second season.
