Squid Game Season 3: Why did The Front Man help Gi-hun before the final round? Real motive revealed by the actor

The Front Man's character in Squid Game Season 3 is one of the most fan-loved characters, despite his role as the host of the games. His undying commitment to the ideals of the game leads the viewers to question the state of humanity and explore the darkest aspects of the human condition.

Squid Game Season 3 was the final attempt of this show to highlight the darkest aspect of the social condition, and it was the final moments where Player 456 tries to portray through his actions and his choices that humanity and goodness still exist despite what the games prove about the state of the world.

The Front Man, before the final game in Season 3, offers Gi-hun a final chance to win the games by giving him a knife to kill the rest of the players in order to save himself and the baby from being killed in the next game. In a recent conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, Lee Byung-hun reveals the real motive behind helping Player 456.

Lee Byung-hun reveals The Front Man's motivation behind offering help to Player 456 before the final game in The Squid Game Season 3

The Front Man offering to help Player 456 by giving him a knife in Squid Game Season 3 so that he can kill the other players before they kill him, and the baby in the final game was a layered action. On one level, he wanted Gi-hun to survive, after having bonded with him inside the game in Season 2 and witnessed the goodness in him.

"I believe the Front Man wanted Gi-hun to live, because Gi-hun is someone he feels differently about compared to the other players, because of the time they spent together inside the Game. "

However, on another level, the Front Man believes in the darkest aspects of the human condition, which the games seem to bring out, so he's offering Gi-hun the chance to kill because if Gi-hun does end up killing everybody, it would reinforce his belief. He thinks that Gi-hun's fall from his moral high ground would prove The Front Man and the game's ideology in Squid Game Season 3.

"So if Gi-hun had killed everyone just as the Front Man did, the Front Man would have felt a sense of victory, because he would have been proven right in his core belief. He could say, “See? You’ve ended up just like me.” On the other hand, if Gi-hun doesn’t go through with it — which is what happens — the Front Man will feel a sense of defeat. He would also feel a form of self-reproach, or even envy, in seeing Gi-hun protect his values in precisely the way that he failed to do."

In Squid Game Season 3, when the Front Man is watching Gi-hun struggle with the choice between killing everybody or holding on to his humanity, there is a certain uncertainty on his face. This uncertainty shows that he knows, on some deep, dark level he knew, that Gi-hun will not kill, even if it means that he would be able to get out safely with the baby. He wanted to hold on to the sliver of hope that Gi-hun's goodness had sparked in him, because it would mean that there was still some hope for humanity.

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"However, I think deep inside him, part of him was almost rooting for Gi-hun. The deepest part of him wanted to see Gi-hun not give in and continue to hold onto hope for the world and for humanity."

The Front Man's character in Squid Game Season 3 continues to be one of the most layered and enigmatic characters in the show. His character's evolution from cynical disbelief to somewhat hopeful is one for the books.

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