A Port Isabel woman is now part of one of Netflix’s biggest game shows.

Julissa Schuster is #443 on Netflix's "Squid Game: The Challenge," a game show based on the award-winning series of the same name.

Schuster said that ever since the latest season of the game show premiered on Tuesday, she’s been hearing from just about everyone.

“I had to stay off my phone,” Schuster said. “You just have so many emotions on your mind so it's so hard to take it all in."

Schuster said she applied last summer and found out in January that she was one of the 456 participants chosen out of 200,000 applicants.

She flew to London in February to film the show, and was told she would need to set aside at least three weeks for filming.

“No cellphones, no laptops, no contact with anybody,” Schuster said. “T

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