The controversial reality show based on the popular Korean series The squid game, the challenge It had already been released indoors netflix, with a total of 456 participants from all over the world, including one from Ecuador.

The reality show, which replicates the games from the original series, consists of 10 episodes in total. Only five chapters have been released so far.

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Ecuadorian is part of the reality show ‘Juego del Calamar’.

One of the participants is Ecuadorian Carlos Aguilar, who came to the competition after submitting his casting in which he appealed to emotion and said that no compatriot had ever been in a program like this.

In an interview on Informative presentation by Radio Sucre The young man said he was contacted two months after signing up for the program.

Aguilar, 28, is player number 136. “Carlos once appeared in a music video as a backup dancer. He is not enthusiastic about having cameras everywhere, although he dreams of setting up a film production company with the profits,” is how the reality platform describes him.

Carlos Aguilar.

Aguilar also stated that the participants sleep in five-story bunk beds and digest food, which in the words of the Ecuadorian is very bad.

The members of the reality compete for a total prize of four million dollars (the highest in the history of the reality shows). To do this, they must pass every imposed test to avoid being eliminated.

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He said there were times when he had to be paralyzed for half an hour until the 4.7-metre-tall puppet finished singing. He reality It was filmed in 16 days at Wharf Studios, London.

“Every player will be pushed to their limits and will be forced to ask themselves how far they can go to win. with opportunistic alliances, ruthless strategies and opportune betrayals,” Netflix describes in its blog.

Each player’s elimination represents the amount of $10,000, which will be added during the program.

At this point there are 197 players left and the basket contains a total of $2,590,000.