Yahoo News Squid Game: The Challenge's Trey reveals how Glass Bridge challenge falls actually works
Contains spoilers for Squid Game: The Challenge
Since the second batch of Squid Game: The Challenge episodes released last week, we have been thinking about one thing and one thing only, the Glass Bridge challenge. Seriously, it's all we talk about. And we still have a lot of questions. Like why did Trey make that jump? What is Ashley and Trey's relationship like now? And most importantly, how far is that drop when the glass tile breaks? Because we imagine it to be very long. Well, it turns out not very far at all, as player 301 aka Trey, has revealed the challenge was actually filmed rather differently to how it appears.
In the challenge which featured the last 20 players in the games, the players had to make their way across a glass bridge, which had 17 pairs of glass tiles. One set of tiles was completely safe to stand on, while the other will cause them to fall through the bridge and be eliminated from the game.
Speaking to Cosmopolitan UK following the release of the second batch of episodes Trey revealed eliminated contestants didn't actually fall through the glass tiles as it appears on TV, and instead were escorted off the set once they were eliminated.
"The fall on the glass bridge, we were up about 15 feet in the air, but we did not fall," he explained. "So 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."
Yep, that's right there was actually no dramatic drop for the eliminated players, which Trey explained was due to safety concerns but that he "really wanted to fall."
So how did they make contestants seem like they'd fallen into the abyss? Well executive producer John Hay told EW, the fall of each contestant was done by a stunt double.
"The fall itself was done by a professional stunt person for the safety of the players," he explained. "Obviously, that’s paramount for us. There was a large airbag underneath, but that also needs to be done by professionals."
Hay went onto explain, along with fellow executive producer Stephen Lambert, that they quickly swapped in the stunt doubles with the real contestants, who still all had very real reactions to being eliminated.
Lambert explained the stunt doubles fell a safe distance from the bridge which was at height in order to give the players a real sense of being up high.
While of course we're glad the players were kept safe throughout the challenge, are we the only ones who are slightly disappointed the contestants didn't get to properly fall through and have one big final dramatic moment each?
Squid Game: The Challenge final episode will be available on Netflix from 7th December
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