Can Yaman and his Sandokan: “I am the happiest man in the world”

The Concordia room of the PalaRircione is packed. Everyone awaits Can Yaman with cell phones in hand. In December we will see him on Rai 1 in the role of Sandokan. On the occasion ofItaly Global Series Festivalthe Turkish actor, beloved in Italy, presented the first image of the reboot series, together with Alessandro Prezionito the director Nicola Abbatangelo, to the manufacturer of Lux saw Matilde Bernabei and Maria Pia Admrati, director of Rai Fiction,

Pirates, naval battles, the Borneo, the oppressed natives, Marianna, Yanez and obviously there will be him, Sandokan, who will become the savior of a people. The ingredients are all there to relive a magical adventure born from the pages of Salgari. “Sandokan is renewedgoes beyond the adventure novel and adapts to the contemporary “, says Maria Pia Admrati.

“I didn’t want to believe when they told me I would play Sandokan,” he says Can Yamanin front of an audience of fans in visible, “then the pandemic and budget problems arrived who interrupted the project. Five years have passed and we did it. Me it looks like a dream, I was the happiest man in the world when I learned that we would shoot this adventure ».

From that moment the actor, who presented himself on the red carpet of the Festival delle Serie di Riccione and Rimini with the new girlfriend Sara Blumastarted an eight -month training. “I’m proud to be Sandokan,” he comments. And now Yaman who stops him most? Three seasons have already been announced. The second is already under processing. “I got physically prepared,” he says, “the most important thing was to learn the choreography of battles and struggle without injuring themselves. Fortunately, I never hit anyone », smiles. «We will see how I will get it in the coming seasons. I’ll be a little older ». But from the room someone lets out aloud: “But I would always be beautiful!”. And down a thunderous applause.

«In the first season we will find out how Sandokan becomes the hero we know, “continues the actor of Viola like the sea«He will make an inner journey, you will see flashbacks where he fights to take care of his family. As I am evolving and we will find out how a people will save. Sandokan made me a better actor ».

For Alessandro Preziosi It was like returning child, when he looked at the 1976 series with Kabir Bedi. “I always saw the first part of the episodes because mine sent me to bed at 9.30 pm”, he says with the smile, “he fascinated me this adventure because I have been a father since I am 20 years old: my experience as a spectator was born with my children, through the cartoon and the stories of pirates. This series is the most modern and fascinating thing I did in my life“. Between pirates, naval battles, colonialism, safeguarding nature, breathtaking landscapes, it could not be missing Labuan’s pearlplayed by the American actress Alanah Bloor, and the tiger, this time inevitably digitally (on the other hand are we in modern era?).