From penniless in a foreign country to starring in "Squid Game"

Just a year ago, this “Squid Game” actor was stranded penniless in a foreign country. But the Netflix show changed his life. Here’s how …

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00:00That kid there in the blue trunks, that's not the guy we bet on to win number 69, is

00:12it?

00:24We're here in Jaipur, India today.

00:28One old man, one 12-year-old kid without a country.

00:33So we're here now, stuck, about to be evicted from the hotel we're staying at just over

00:40here.

00:47We're good for about, I don't know, I think six days or something like that.

01:02Food's very expensive.

01:03We don't have the money to go home, we don't have the money to stay here and we have no

01:06country.

01:26I had a million bucks on that kid, as they say, easy come, easy go.

01:33After all, 69 is my favorite number.

01:50We were trapped off in India, nowhere, no money.

01:54So we were going from pillar to post, from ashram to ashram, weren't we?

01:59Yeah, we were.

02:00In India, just trying to survive, I think we wore the same clothes pretty much for six

02:05months.

02:06However, things have changed a lot, man.