‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ Lied About The Glass Bridge: ‘We Did Not Fall’
An eliminated player from "Squid Game: The Challenge" revealed that the Glass Bridge challenge in the show was filmed differently from how it appeared on TV.
In the Glass Bridge challenge, the last 20 players competing for the $4.56 million cash prize had to make their way across a glass bridge made of 17 pairs of glass tiles. One in each pair is made out of a fake glass, and if a contestant steps on it, he/she will fall and be eliminated from the game. The game's aim is for contestants to make it through the other side without falling.
According to Player 301 (Trey), the fall of the eliminated contestants during this game was not as dramatic as it appeared on screen. In an interview with Cosmopolitan UK, Trey revealed that while they were really 15 feet off the ground on the bridge, they didn't fall through the glass tiles as shown on television.
"We did a little squat thing to make it look like we fell, and then we were escorted to the end of the bridge once we got eliminated," he revealed.
To make it look like the eliminated player fell in total darkness after stepping on the wrong tile, executive producer John Hay revealed that they hired stunt doubles to film every eliminated contestant's fall.
"The fall itself was done by a professional stunt person for the safety of the players," he confessed. "Obviously, that's paramount for us. There was a large airbag underneath, but that also needs to be done by professionals," he further explained.
Hay added that they had to pause the game every time a contestant fell and swap in a stunt person each time.
He clarified though that while the fall was done by stunt doubles, everything else in the Glass Bridge challenge was real -- the contestants' reactions to stepping on a fake glass tile and the sensation of being high on a bridge.
From 456 players, only three remain to continue with the competition: Player 287 (Mai), Player 451 (Phill) and Player 16 (Sam). They bested the other six players in episode 9's "Circle of Trust," where the nine players were asked to sit on desks while blindfolded.
One of them will take home the $4.56 million cash prize. The final winner will be determined on the season finale titled "One Lucky Day," airing this Wednesday.
