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The cool thing is that we found our core audience and it isn’t leaving the show no matter what and now we’re adding more and more people every week. It’s about getting to as many people as possible, getting the show out. Could you explain in detail?
Erkan:My character, because of his job, is trying to get close to his enemy’s sister, trying to get in that organization, so as his duty to his job and the country and everything, he’s doing this, but of course what starts as a job can flower into something real and that’s where a lot of the drama comes from.

For three generations the Kozcuoglu family owns a prominent plantation there. The rich family get the poor girl and the poor family get the rich girl. It’s amazing to think that someone in Chile, or Indonesia or wherever can watch something we did in Turkey and feel an emotion, and maybe get teary-eyed or get excited, that’s why we’re doing this.

What has been the reaction so far in Turkey and do people in Turkey realize that the series that they’re watching now will be watched by the whole world?
Cevdet:The very first time it was so different than everything else that at first people weren’t sure what to do, but once they realized that “oh, they’re doing something different”, every week it has been climbing like crazy, really steadily.

The series transports the scene to Istanbul where both Murat and Hasret, the two main characters, live. The female protagonist Hasret - on the other hand - was born and raised in one of Istanbul's most impoverished neighborhoods. What is the new emotion that this new series will bring to you and to the audience?
Erkan:Of course, the other series I’ve done in Turkey, I’ve sold everywhere in the world, but they are still very Turkish at the core.

This project is an action drama, so it is a unique new type of show for Turkey. After graduating from Gaziantep High School, he graduated from İstanbul University, Faculty of Political Sciences in 1988. In Hollywood, they can have three Ferrari’s crash and then a fourth falling on top of them and then an airplane and a boat explode – we can’t beat that, of course, but we have a lot of drama to really support what we’re doing as well.

You mentioned Hollywood and as I understood, the producers are based in the US.

How close are you cooperating with them on developing the scripts, the whole production and process?
Cevdet:Of course, especially in the developing stages of a project, there’s a lot of back and forth discussion, especially since the project was meant to be international, but there is a reality and it shows so we have to shoot 120 minutes in six days and this is rather crazy.

We also have somebody in the Istanbul industry to help speed that up.

Let’s go back to the story. It’s hard but very fulfilling to design a project that can fit such a wide spectrum, to make this project it requires 5-6 years as we’re doing this, but we’re competing with giants like Hollywood that have been doing this forever, and we’re succeeding.

Erkan, you are one character but with three different roles.

Still embittered about the circumstances that drove his mother to her death, he meets Asi and is immediately drawn to her. In work, love or family – it’s like a Bermuda triangle that puts us in a unique position.

It’s been a really fun project. But this one from the very beginning has always been considered as a big international project, with more international appeal and has more potential to go even further internationally.

This project has been developed, from the very beginning, everyone has been working so hard on it and we are trying to make into something people can buy and you can watch in Argentina, in Bulgaria, the Balkans. I basically play a character that has three big chunks of his life in the show, so I have to play three different ‘feels’ and essentially I’m playing three different characters – that alone is another challenge and a new approach for me as an actor, too.



If we think about action drama that has been aired in Turkey, in order to orient the viewers, how would you place the show?
Cevdet:It’s somewhat closer to Ezel – still much more drama, with some action, and Backstreets has a lot of action, but the drama is kind of secondary.

Do you have a favorite among these three and which do you think the audience will like best or hate the most?
Erkan:They’re three, but they’re the same. Hasret makes her living by selling flowers and occasionally singing in a band. In 2006, he directed the films ''Gece Gelen Arkadaşlar'', ''Seni Beklerken''and  ''Onlara Dokunmak '' in the horror-thriller series from ''Kabuslar Evi'', which script was written by Çağan Irmak.

In 2012, he directed the series “Kayıp Şehir” starring Uğur Polat, Gökçe Bahadır, Ahmet Mekin, İlker Kaleli, Cansu Tosun, Tugay Mercan, Nazan Kesal and Ercan Kesal.

Murat hears potential in her untrained voice and takes it upon himself to teach her the secrets of music by giving her a classical training.