Berk Hakman was born on August 14, 1981 in Ankara. Turkish TV series, cinema and theater actor.
Name: Berk Hakman
Date of Birth: August 14, 1981
Place of Birth: Ankara
Height: 1.78 m.
Weight: 72 kg
Horoscope: Leo
Eye Color: Green
Father: Ataman Hakman
Siblings: Can Hakman
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brkhkmn/
Family: He was born in Ankara as the second child of his family. He has a brother. The roots of his family are based in Sarajevo. His father, a dentist and musician, is Ataman Hakman, a member of Erkin Koray’s Underground Quartet. His brother, Can Hakman, also did an academic master’s degree on cinema. He moved to Adapazarı with his family at the age of 7. “Your immigration from the Yugoslavia-Bosnia side. I was born in Ankara, then I lived in Kastamonu and Adapazarı because of my father’s work. My father was both a musician and a dentist, of course now he is not interested in music. I used to listen to my father’s records at home and spend time with instruments. ”
Childhood years: Playing guitar from the age of 11. During his high school years, he played keyboard instruments, trumpet and bass guitar. As a child, he wanted to be a musician. “When I was a kid I was very bulbous. Though I still don’t think my style is improving. My eyes were short-sighted, I had round glasses. I was always growing my hair like that because I listened to the Beatles. My friends were saying, “Cut your hair, no such model.” I was in another world while everyone was hanging out with girls at that time. I wasn’t dreaming of acting back then, I grew up with the stories of rock and roll bands, and my dream was to form a band and give concerts. After high school, I won the Akdeniz University Tourism Management Department. I saw a theater advertisement at the school. I decided to apply for that advertisement in order to remove something that was in me as a child. They used to show me in family holidays, on New Year’s Eve, I used to make imitations, and we would prepare sketches with my friends. I suddenly started to go to the theater regularly in Antalya. I think theater is also intertwined with music. After all, I should have read something about art. While I was in the third year, I left Akdeniz University and won the auditions for Mimar Sinan in Istanbul. ”
Education life: He finished primary, secondary and super high school in Adapazarı. In 1999, when he was 18 years old, just behind the earthquake they experienced, he went to Antalya to study at Akdeniz University Tourism Management. While he was studying there, he decided to study theater and dropped out. He won Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory Acting Department and graduated from there.
The turning point of his career: ‘Okul’ movie, his first cinema experience, was the turning point of his career. “One day, while sitting at the school, a friend of mine said that Plato Film was preparing to make a new movie. I went to the auditions and starred in the movie ‘Okul’. It became a popular movie and things came one after another. ”
First step into acting: He started his television adventure with the character “Davut”, which he played in the TV series “Seher Vakti”.
With which project did he shine? He drew attention with the character of “Deniz Karayel” in the “Past Times” series.
Personality traits: He has an obsessive nature. “I have an obsession with my own psychology and my surroundings. I’m obsessed with existential issues. There were spiritual books in my father’s library. I dived into those issues early. I am interested in metaphysics. I used to read ‘Spirit and Matter’ magazine publications. I believe in reincarnation. In my previous life, I must have lived in England again, dealing with art. I can obsessively obsess over a lot of things.
Mindset: He prefers to appear less in the press and on television. “This is who I am and I am not crazy to appear everywhere. I do what I feel. But if what I’m doing makes me look mysterious, there’s nothing to do. For example, some say to me “How cold you look, what this weather” or something, but what can I do, I am standing like this! I don’t have to talk every minute. I can be a cold person instead. For example, there are leader personality types. They enter every environment, solve every job. I’ve never been one of those types. But even if someone talks, I do. I am against them making general conclusions about me in a two-hour conversation. ”
What kind of person is he on set? While preparing for his character, he first looks at whether there is a new field he can work on and create. “I think about how I can distinguish him from my previous work in gestures, posture, sound, or otherwise. Actually, I am looking for a channel where both me and the character can breathe. Everyone takes the character from a different angle. Before the series starts, there are reading rehearsals and meetings. While consensus is achieved at these stages, a data told by the screenwriter can be handled by the director in a completely different way when he goes on the set. Everyone is playing abroad with a real integrity. In our case, ‘this will happen next week’ is hired. We can escape to easy solutions. The director and the scriptwriter are unaware of each other. I think this is the biggest problem in Turkey. ”
The source of happiness: He is happy that the roles he has played so far are very different from each other. “Actually, I wanted this since I was 19-20 years old. Because that’s what I’ve seen in great actors around the world. The player who plays everything the same is not a good player. They also love what plays naturally with us. There is no such thing. I’m not saying this, Russians have a method in acting, if there is a technique, people have created it all, that’s what I learned from them. You will change yourself. As you read these, you say ‘This is a math thing’, ‘I have to do this’. Luckily, you play the role of the three turbulent period in the history of Turkey, it began to come more other roles. Also, I rejected the roles that came in and demanded other roles in that project. ‘Es Es’ came for example, the lead role, I’ve played something like this before, there is a malfunctioning man next door, and I said let me try it myself, let me scratch my head, try something different, what is my octave. I had such a break with ‘Es Es’, it was very nice.
First movie: Durul Yaylan- Yağmur Taylan / Okul
The view of love: “I am someone who reads and researches, I was very obsessed with philosophy for a while and I went as far as” how to experience zero pain “and right now I don’t want to have any love or anything. Because it will give me trouble. In Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s “Time Regulation Institute, the man says” I have always escaped from love. ” I feel a bit like that too. Because he will eventually make you pay for what he gave you, not what it lasts forever. This was the first time I had experienced such a thing, and I was in great pain. We didn’t experience anything very painful, but that’s when I learned what it meant to be detached from someone. I may not be able to deal with this. You see, with someone, two years have passed, with someone else. If love is, then I am not in such a situation. That’s why I said, “I don’t believe in love.” Boredom because if I really loved a person, I cannot break with him, but if situations require you to break off, it is the worst thing. At least let’s see each other and drink coffee. Otherwise, it is a very painful thing. ”
His view of life: After the earthquake he experienced in Adapazarı, he prefers to live life without planning. “This is one of the things the earthquake teaches. It may be a short-term goal,” I will do this, I will achieve this in the future “I do not have such a thing. I have a problem with life, I am not a cliché, I think my posture is normal, but when you do not do what people are used to, they call you “different”. I broke all the general rules. While doing this, I tried not to interfere with anyone’s private life and I did it within the framework of logic. Because I tried to protect my mental health. If the others tried to keep their mental health with me, the oddities would never have happened. But because people cannot change because of their egos or facts of the material world, they present the same pattern of behavior. I have no such fear. That’s why I’m trying to be myself. I am economically comfortable. I have no problem to prove myself. Do not understand that I am saying that I am a great player. But I have no ambition to act like crazy. Even if I quit one day, I have a tourism diploma. I can become an animation chief or make music somewhere. So I don’t live in fear. So I’m not addicted to acting. Otherwise, I have a lot of fears about life. But being addicted is not a good thing. ”
His view of business life: He wants to play roles that are definitely a concern. “After all, I choose my roles and nobody can make me play for money when I don’t want to. My criteria are the script and the character I will portray. Even roles have to have a problem. For example, Davut in the TV series ‘Seher Vakti’ was a character in love but he was Alevi and had conflicts with his family. ‘My character in Kırık Kanatlar (Broken Wings) was also a man in love, but a Greek, Greek lieutenant. He was running from war. Anyway, beautiful characters are always written in side roles. Those who see me say, “When will you play the lead role?” It also comes to me as a leading role, but I don’t always accept everything. I will only accept it if I love the character and the script. I am happy as a spiritual satisfaction. Both side roles always work less. When starting a project, I get into it knowing what will happen to me. You will be realistic. You will not enter with great hopes. You will know that everything can change at any moment. If you live in a specific sector expectations in Turkey distress. As actors, we are the last link in the television market. Something is going on above, and after going through a thousand and one stages, we are given a scenario that can only be written. Then we play. Of course, we are not talking about it. What should the actor know about dramaturgy? Let him be silent and sit there. I heard that when he asked something on set, they turned it on and talked to the production. There actors, director, assistant director etc. Why ask me to do your mise-en-scene when you can? So maybe he will be a pessimist, but I don’t expect anything from this country in terms of the television market. ”
Career plan: He chooses his projects by looking at the script. He does not work with a manager, he makes every choice himself. He also writes lyrics. “You won’t calculate, if I play this, there will be four million toll from there. If you feel something in life, do it, if you don’t feel it, don’t do it. Frankly, I have started to cool down about acting in recent years. Good works are taken, but sometimes you cannot be. Then you want to channel yourself to other things. At that point I also apply to music. I have the idea of collecting the lyrics in the album, but I want to do this not out of commercial concern, but to leave something to this world. There will be a little memory from me. Years ago I also tried to write a script, but I realized I had no talent. I only have lyrics and music. In some places I am also referred to as a ‘musician’. I can never say I am a musician. I don’t know, I hope that album will be released someday. As long as I don’t get colder until that day, I continue acting. The reason I work with the manager is so much that I don’t think I missed anything in this country. Like big things happening here? We are not in New York or London. We are in a strange country. Especially, I will never talk about our own industry. As for the business issue; They are looking for thanks. So far, work has always come and worked. And I can hardly trust. I learned everything myself. It is not necessary after this time, but why not if I get tired. Our managers are concerned with what you should wear at the gala and where you should appear. ”
TV or theater? It does not separate theater, cinema and television from each other in terms of working discipline. “For example, they always separate theater and cinema or acting in a TV series. Okay, in the theater you play a little different depending on the style of the game. However, I think there is no difference between the two in terms of internal preparation. You only speak louder in the theater so that the last one in the back can hear it too. Why do you work separately in the theater and separately in the cinema? There are 100 people in the movie or TV series with the camera, you play for the set crew. He is alive too. You feel this a lot. I will never forget ‘We are shooting Dear Past’s season finale, they will stab the character of Deniz that I portrayed. We were very crowded that day and the set was in Karaköy Bankalar Caddesi. One or two cameras will take me close to me. It was one of the most difficult scenes. While I was playing, I suddenly felt that the whole set was watching me instead of passing and shooting. Now, what is the difference between this and the theater? Actually, you are in the theater there too. If you have a real feeling, someone from the set can come and say, “Brother, what did you do?”
Dream of the Future: He does not intend to marry and have children. Most of them want to make an album where they will play their instrument. “There are a lot of problems about myself that I could not solve, while these remain, especially in this country, it seems unreasonable to me to have children. I love children very much, he is separate. If it were, it would have been three or five years ago, it’s about a person. Other than that, I never wanted a child from anyone. Now I think movies and music are the most beautiful children. I’m writing songs, it’s my relationship with the musicians, who can forget John Lennon, you’re sitting, drinking wine by candlelight, with your girlfriend, listening to his song. Maybe 50 years from now, someone will listen to what I wrote. Is there anything better than this, someone in the world to think of you. Even your own child may not think of you, maybe you will have a bad time. But the other one goes for 100 years. I want to make an album that I could listen to if I heard those melodies from other musicians. The compositions and the lyrics are mine, and there may be a few poems. But while the album was being formed, someone came and made a weird song, of course I can say ‘Come, have your song here too’, I am completely open. ”
Concerns: He thinks that good enough scripts are not written in television and cinema, this is the biggest problem of the industry. “When you’re getting a job (especially for the drama), you don’t know what the character will do in episode 30. The screenwriter writes something according to his head. Let’s see if you can get out of it. At this point, I have to say with regret. There are very few good screenwriters in our country, maybe 4-5. Even they can’t run the jobs they started, what happens happens to the players. Unfortunately, when the series get longer, things that have nothing to do with our character are written. ”
Who does he admire? He answers the question “Who would you choose if you were to sit face to face with famous personalities who lost their lives and talk about a topic?” “Russian actor and director Konstantin Stanislavski, all members of The Beatles group, Stefan Zweig, Albert Camus, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Oğuz Atay, Dutch philosopher Spinoza, Atatürk and Doctor Bedri Ruhselman. Bedri Ruhselman is the founder of neo-spiritualism. I would like to talk to each name in this team in their own field. ”
What kind of music does he listen to? He likes the 60s and 70s very much. Rock music favorite “I love rock and its derivatives, I would even directly say” The Beatles “. When we were children, Turkish music was not heard much at home except for two or three things. I also only have three or four albums of “Mor ve Ötesi”. ”
What kind of book does he read? He likes to read Albert Camus, Stefan Zweig and Tolstoy. “Let me not ignore Oğuz Atay and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar. When you meet them at a young age, you realize that the world is not what you see. For example, I was a football fan in my adolescence, at the level of fanaticism. I also played football. At the age of 18-19, when these names I mentioned came into my life ‘What is this fanaticism? “What are you doing?” The head goes elsewhere. Dr. I would recommend Bedri Ruhselman’s “Spirit and Universe” and Hermann Hesse’s “Steppenwolf” to everyone.
Which directors he likes. Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski, Krzysztof Kieslowski and Ingmar Bergman.
Which movie was he affected by? He was influenced by “Blade Runner 2049” and “The Square” by Ruben Östlund. “I think the best movies of all time are ‘The Godfather’, ‘Taxi Driver’, ‘Space Odyssey 2001’. The list goes on and turns into edicts, these are just the first ones that come to my mind. I have watched films by Martin Scorsese and Roman Polanski many times. So is Ingmar Bergman and Kieslowski. I haven’t watched these movies for a long time. I followed it very early in terms of average age and was in another psychology. Now I don’t want to go in there, I think I’m a little scared. Difficult movies when you look at them from a psychological point of view. I used to watch movies without leaving home until the age of 26-27. Or I would sit all day and listen to an album. I’m starting to get colder now from some things. I think my pessimism has increased. ”
The TV series he followed: “I watched 2-3 TV series in the past, and I bought their DVDs at that time. There were ‘Breaking Bad’, ‘True Detective’, ‘Taboo’, ‘Narcos’ and ‘Coupling’ on the BBC. I remember laughing a lot.
The city / country he most wants to travel to: places Northern Europe has not gone to and South America.
What would he choose if he had made an invention? “He would have liked to say something about electricity. “I also love Tesla very much. I researched his life. It could also be something about space physics. The gravitational forces of the planets, space and time, galaxies etc. I love reading about topics related to space physics, such as. ”
How is it with social media? He does not like to use social media. “I’ve switched to iPhone in recent years, that’s all I can say. I used neither Instagram nor Twitter. Now I use it, things that mislead people. My friends say, “You don’t know how to use social media”; yeah i dont know, i dont care I am this, that is what follows me. ”
TV SERIES
2005- Seher Vakti / Davut
2006- Kırık Kanatlar (Broken Wings) / Hristo
2006 – Felek Ne Demek? / Şeyda
2007 / 2008- Past Times / Deniz Karayel
2009- Çocukluk Günleri (Childhood Days)
2008- Es-Es / Tercan
2011- Mazi Kalbimde Yaradır / Selim Balkanlı
2012- Game Of Silence / Gurur Kutay – Gazanfer Bircan
2013/2015 – Fugitive / Ertan Demir
2016 – Love of My Life / Kaan Engindeniz
2017/2018 – Black Pearl / Vural
2020- Ramo
2021- Olağan Şüpheliler (Usual Suspects)
CINEMA FILMS
2004- Okul / Ersin
2007 – Janjan / Sadık Karayel
2007- Saklı Yüzler / İsmail
2009 – Kampüste Çıplak Ayaklar / Ali
2012 – Tepenin Ardı /Zafer
2017 – Taksim Hold’em / Fuat
THEATRE GAMES
2019- Araba Kullanmayı Nasıl Öğrendim?
2016- Aşk Delisi / Eddie