Squid Games Contestant Reveals How Much They Paid to Appear on the Reality Version of the Hit Netflix Show Ahead of the Grand Finale
A Squid Game: The Challenge contestant has revealed how much they were paid to appear on the show.
The popular Netflix series – which focuses on 456 contestants who all risk their lives to win millions – was turned into a real-life competition by the streaming service this year.
More than 100,000 applicants signed up to take part in the series after hearing the cash prize would be $4.56 million (£3.63 million), with the grand final just days away.
Mow contestant Radhika Srinivasan revealed that only the winner made money.
When a fan on TikTok asked directly what her fee was, she revealed, “Zero. Zero GBP, zero USD, zero rupees, zero Yuan, zero pesos. Zero. Literally zero!
‘It was all or nothing and we were actually there for nothing because the stakes were so high. It was $4.65 million.”
A Squid Game: The Challenge contestant has revealed how much they were paid to appear on the show
Contestant Radhika Srinivasan has revealed how much she paid to participate in the show
The Milton Keynes resident – entrant 352 – was ultimately eliminated from the battleship round when her team’s boat was sunk.
Radhika said the company paid the travel expenses of all participants.
She added: ‘But what I want to tell you is that the production included all the transport, which means literally all the international flights coming into London.
‘I don’t live far from London, but they arranged a taxi, a train and literally everything you could need to get to the venue and back home.
“So yeah, we went in there with the clothes they gave us, a fanny pack full of toiletries and essentials.
“Toothbrush, toothpaste, I had my contact lenses. That’s all I needed. And we left with a group trauma, I think.
“I’m just kidding, we left with so many crazy, extremely abstract memories.
‘I guess that’s the best way to put it, but it was such a wild experience and I wouldn’t take it back for the world! Would I do it again for free? A hundred percent.’
Hundreds were eliminated in the first round and then stayed in bunk beds in the studios, just like in the Korean series.
456 real people competed to be crowned the winner of Squid Game: The Challenge
A total of 456 players, the same as in the original series, took part in the show, which was filmed at Cardington Studios, a former RAF base near Bedford.
In a trailer released Friday ahead of next week’s finale, the three remaining hopefuls, numbers 016, 287 and 451, take on the final challenge
Brandon Riegg, Netflix’s vice president of unscripted and documentary series, previously said of the reality show: “Squid Game took the world by storm with [director Hwang Dong-hyuk’s] captivating story and iconic images.
In a trailer released on Friday ahead of next week’s finale, the three remaining hopefuls, numbers 016, 287 and 451, take on the final challenge.
The clip begins with one participant saying, “We’ve come this far to get here and now… this is it.”
Someone else explains: ‘It’s like a pack of wolves trying to get the last piece of meat!’