The Problem collection denies claims of ‘severe damage’
Netflix’s manufacturing crew behind Squid Game: The Problem has hit again at claims the present is harmful after contestants branded the present “inhumane”.
The collection, which can be a “real-life” model of the South Korean dystopian drama, is at present filming within the UK, and recreates the lethal video games the place contestants battle for $4.56million (£3.7million).
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Nonetheless, after claims remedy on the set for the contestants was “inhumane” – together with competing in sub-zero temperatures – Netflix has responded denying the accusations.
“We care deeply in regards to the well being of our forged and crew, and the standard of this present. Any suggestion that the competitors is rigged or claims of great hurt to gamers are merely unfaithful,” Studio Lambert, the present’s manufacturing crew launched in a press release (by way of ).
“We’ve taken all the suitable security precautions, together with after take care of contestants – and an impartial adjudicator is overseeing every recreation to make sure it’s truthful to everybody.”
Within the authentic Netflix collection, 456 gamers battle for the life-changing sum of cash by means of enjoying childhood video games. But when they had been eradicated, they had been instantly killed within the course of.
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Squid Sport: The Problem will see 456 real-life contestants from world wide undergo simiilar video games, solely with out the deadly consequence.
Nonetheless, as filming has continued, a number of gamers from internationally, who’ve remained nameless, have come ahead to complain in regards to the circumstances of the set.
The recreation of the long-lasting Pink Mild, Inexperienced Mild recreation – the place gamers try and race throughout a end line with out being caught by a wierd doll telling them when to go, or cease and freeze – has had explicit claims made towards it.
In response to Selection, contestants declare they had been pressured to remain frozen for as much as 26 minutes at a time, as an alternative of the agreed two-minute most, with filming for the sport occurring for seven hours.
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The seven-hour stretch occurred after an eight-hour prep time forward of the sport itself.
One nameless names declare medics had been known as as much as eight instances as contestants struggled with a mixture of exhaustion from the lengthy day and the freezing-cold temperatures the UK was going by means of on the time.
One other supply claims they weren’t allowed to go for bathroom breaks or have a drink whereas the sport was in session.
“This isn’t a Bear Grylls survival present,” one stated. “If they’d advised us it was going to be that chilly, nobody would have gone by means of with it.”
“It’s not like we signed up for Survivor or Bare and Afraid,” stated one other. “The circumstances had been completely inhumane and had nothing to do with the sport.”
Squid Sport: The Problem airs on Netflix later this yr.
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