Selim Bayraktar, who plays the character of Alpagu Han in the Destan (meaning: Epic) series, puts his signature under another successful performance. Adding great value to every project he takes part in, the actor displays his talents by taking a leading role in a strong story on the ATV screen. Professional fight scenes in the series can also be considered as a worldwide show of power.
The actor, who is also known for his modesty, said that every actor in the Turkish TV series industry is in a position to take part in such productions all over the world. Selim Bayraktar said, “Actors from Turkey can act anywhere in the world.” With these words, the master actor emphasized how much the Turkish TV series market has developed and how important talents the actors have gained.
Stating that Turkish actors’ improvisation skills are very good, the actor said, “Our fighting experts are helping and showing the combination of movements. We need to learn this combination within a maximum of 5 minutes, show it to the director and record it.”
Selim Bayraktar, with these statements, stated that Turkish TV series crews, who try to produce a TV series in the quality of a movie every week due to their long TV series, should work fast, and emphasized that those who grow up in this market can act all over the world in terms of professionalism.
The master actor stated that they have a team that is open to all difficulties and that they need to learn and record all kinds of movements in a short time, which greatly improves the improvisation skills of the actors.
The Destan series, which is broadcast on the ATV screen on Tuesday evenings, takes place in the eighth century. For this reason, actors must be very good at using swords, shooting arrows and riding horses. In order to achieve these skills, the team had a very intense preparation period and these trainings continue before each shooting.
Herein lies the biggest difficulty of the Destan series. Actors have to be very good at fighting techniques in order to both have little time for shooting and produce a quality work.