The masked billionaires had a big presence in season three, bringing even more cringe to the Netflix show's final bow.

In Squid Game Season 3, the game continued with the surviving contestants from season 2 as they tried to survive the brutal games or win the prize money, which was also the goal of several players. While moving forward in the game, the players make numerous devastating decisions to either save themselves or to save their close ones.

W hile Squid Game's uneven third season has faced several criticisms, only one can be traced back to the series' excellent first run — its bizarre, English-speaking "VIP" characters played by actors widely judged to be not of the same calibre as the show's Korean stars.

It turns out Squid Game’s most confusing creative decision wasn’t a secret plot twist – it was a post-production choice. Actor Bryan Bucco, who played one of the English-speaking VIPs in Squid Game Season 3, has confirmed what fans have long suspected: The version of the show streaming on Netflix doesn’t even use his voice. But, why?

With Squid Game's global success, Squid Game Season 3 has received praise for both its visuals and its storytelling, but not everything was completely safe from criticism.

"A mother will do anything to save her child," remarks one of the VIP spectators in Squid Game's third season. In the previous episode, a pregnant contestant gave birth in the middle of a challenge, and now the VIPs are debating how this might affect the competition.

Perhaps the most, ahem, critically divisive scenes in season three of Squid Game were the moments with the VIPs. Many, many Netflix viewers have critiqued the dialogue, acting skills and overall cringe of the scenes with VIPs. One of the VIP actors has legit responded to these criticisms.

Taking to TikTok following a video that criticized the upper-class characters in the show, Bryan Bucco revealed that the voice you hear in the show from his character doesn't belong to him. "Those are the English dubs," he explained. "I was the actual actor. What's being played here isn't my voice."

During a recent discussion with Time, Hwang said it was hard not to think of Tesla founder Elon Musk when writing about the show’s VIPs, who act as sinister (and exuberantly rich) spectators for the deadly games.

Plus, creator-director Hwang Dong-hyuk, star Lee Jung-jae, and other creatives break down how they made the brutal jump rope game.