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Will Squid Game 3 star Leonardo DiCaprio? Netflix releases a statement and provides information about the upcoming season.

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Will Squid Game 3 star Leonardo DiCaprio? Netflix releases a statement and provides information about the upcoming season.

Fans of the show are in for a treat as Netflix announced when Squid Game 3 will premiere on the platform.
After rumours emerged that actor Leonardo DiCaprio will appear in Squid Game 3, Netflix has finally reacted. As per Soompi, Netflix said that the rumours are “completely false”.

What was the rumour about Leonardo DiCaprio, Squid Game 3
Earlier, OSEN reported that Leonardo had allegedly completed a surprise appearance for Squid Game 3. It had also said that the filming was reportedly held under secrecy in 2024. Leonardo’s role was said to be minor, with all character details kept strictly confidential in order to avoid spoilers, as per the report.

What Netflix has said

Now, a representative of Netflix has said, “The rumours are completely false. Reports of Leonardo DiCaprio’s involvement in Squid Game Season 3 are entirely unfounded.”

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Squid Game 3 will premier this year

Fans of the show were also in for a surprise as Netflix announced that Squid Game 3 will premiere in 2025. On Wednesday, Netflix announced, as per Soompi, that Squid Game 2 achieved 68 million views in its first week of release. This made it the most-watched first week in Netflix history.

Alongside this announcement, Netflix also unveiled a special teaser poster for season 3 of the show. The poster features Young Hee, the unforgettable icon from the Red Light, Green Light game. It also featured a new robot character Cheol Su, who made a surprise appearance in the post-credits scene of Season 2’s finale.

About Squid Game

Squid Game season two premiered on December 26 last year. It starred Lee Jung-jae and centred around a secret competition in South Korea that target people in debt and the winner get a big cash prize. However, losing the game is deadly. Directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, Squid Game season one released in 2021.

Speaking with AP recently, Dong-hyuk said that he originally conceived of the show 15 years ago as a two-hour film but it failed to gain traction with financiers or even interested actors. He put it aside and worked on other films instead. He then had the idea to make it a TV series instead and took the project to Netflix. There, it could reach a wide audience. “I never in my wildest dream thought it was going to be this huge,” he had said.

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Doctors actors Harleen Sethi and Sharad Kelkar claim that OTT makes realism possible: “You couldn’t even depict death on TV” | Exclusive

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Doctors actors Harleen Sethi and Sharad Kelkar claim that OTT makes realism possible: “You couldn’t even depict death on TV” | Exclusive

Sharad Kelkar and Harleen Sethi, stars of JioCinema’s show Doctors, explain why such a realistic show was not possible on TV.
There have been medical dramas on Indian television before, but not with the kind of realism that the West has shown. As Viraf Patell, star of Doctors, says, “They may have played doctors, but the real drama would often happen in their personal lives.” A new Indian show, Doctors, has attempted to change that, bringing into focus the lives of the men and women in the hospital as well. Stars of the series talk to HT about what makes it different.

Television is restrictive when it comes to medical dramas

Harleen Sethi, who plays the show’s protagonist Dr Nitya, says that the biggest change is that they can show more reality here. “I was talking to Siddharth P Malhotra, our producer, whose forte has been medical dramas,” she says, adding, “He made Sanjeevani and Dil Mill Gayye. He said that when he made medical dramas for TV, they weren’t allowed to show death. How do you show characters’ nuances when you can’t show death or blood in a medical show.”

There is more detailing in OTT shows

Her co-star Sharad Kelkar a veteran of television and cinema, agrees that the detailing in streaming is much more. “The detailing is much different on OTT. That is missing on TV. And the audience is not interested either. They want to see more drama than the detailing in television shows,” he argues.

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OTT allows shows to touch sensitive issues

The actors say that the focus on more realism and detailing allowed the show to touch on issues that would have been impossible on primetime TV. “The kind of illnesses and issues we have talked about here – from euthanasia to organ donation – that is not possible on television,” says Harleen.

Apart from Sharad, Harleen, and Viraf, Doctors also stars Aamir Ali and Vivaan Shah. The show began streaming on Jiocinema on December 27.

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