Turkish actors refuse to play role of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, film director says - Mediamax.am

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Turkish actors refuse to play role of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, film director says


Fatih Akin
Fatih Akin

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Yerevan /Mediamax/. German film director of Turkish descent Fatih Akin said he dropped plans to make a film about "Agos” newspaper Editor-in Chief Hrant Dink because no Turkish actor wanted to play the lead role of the journalist murdered in Istanbul in 2007.

In an interview with “Agos” weekly, Fatih Akin said that all the Turkish actors he asked to play in the movie refused saying that they found the movie script “too harsh”, AFP reports.

 

"I could not persuade any Turkish actor to play Hrant's role. All of them found the script too harsh. That's why I had to cancel the project," he said, without naming the actors. I did not want any actor to get hurt. But it was important to make a “Turkish film” about Hrant. A U.S. or French actor could not play Hrant. We have to deal with this issue ourselves”, said the film director.

 

Following Akin’s interview, two popular young Turkish actors took to Twitter to lament that they had missed the chance to star as Dink.

 

"The Cut" movie directed by Fatih Akin will premiere at Italy's Venice International Film Festival in late August. It tells the story of an Armenian man who survives the 1915 killings and embarks on a journey across the world to find his daughter.

 

"For those who are afraid of this film, I tell them: 'This is just a film'.

 

“But I am now sure that the Turkish society, of which I am a member, is ready for this film," said Fatih Akin.

 

“The Cut” movie co-produced by Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Poland, Canada and Turkey, the film is the latest part of the director's Love, Death, and the Devil trilogy.

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