Deep and sincere: Kerem Bürsin

We like some people just because of their looks. We appreciate some of them for their character and humanity. It is a bit difficult to come across one that ‘really’ has both features nowadays. But it does not coincide either; just like Kerem Bürsin, the star of ‘This City Will Come Behind You’, which is broadcast on Atv these days. He has simplified life, his expectations are clear, he used to say to himself… You immediately get his energy and pure excitement while talking. As far as I know, Kerem got full marks from me. What can I say, his dreams come true, his way be open!

He is perhaps not the most ‘Turkish’ type among the names these lands have won. I say that this land has won, because until three years ago we were neither aware of it nor it is ours. I’m talking about Kerem Bürsin, who is at the top of the list of women’s ‘fans’ these days, not only with her distinctive personality, but also with her sympathetic accent and cute demeanor. With his European features, red hair and green eyes, Kerem immediately stood out from his competitors, and he got a plus point from me with his relaxed demeanor and uncomplicated character. I had some idea of what he was like, of course. At least I had no doubt that his energy was quite high. I was not mistaken… It was enough for her to spread her positive energy as soon as she walked through the door of the studio where we were going to shoot the cover.

Kerem Bürsin, who lived at the age of 10 months first in Europe, then in the Middle East, and finally in the USA, due to his father’s job; He was born in 1987, Istanbul. He is the second child of an engineer father, who is a senior manager in an oil company, and a mother who has devoted her life mainly to social welfare projects. He has an older sister three years older than him. You know, a classic nuclear family. They are so interconnected, so interrelated. He saw the foreign face when he was only 10 months old. First Norway and then Scotland were the first stops of the Bürsin Family. After being in Far East cities such as Jakarta and Medan for a few years, they came to Ankara, where he attended the first grade of primary school. After Ankara, Dubai and Abu Dhabi… In 2000, they moved to Texas, the place where he was most affected and where his life was shaped. Because they spent most of their time here. After middle and high school, Kerem Bürsin went to Boston for university. He attended his last year of college in Los Angeles.

I ask him what life has taught him, how living abroad for years has contributed to such a colorful and fast-paced life. His answer is as follows: “Of course, as you get older, you understand better that family means everything. Because everywhere you go, everything from the people around you to the culture of life you live in changes. Therefore, you are only alone with your family. Over time, they become your closest friends. You learn to do everything together, adapt to life together, and connect with each other.”

I have seen and lived how much a toy is worth for an orphan child. I’m more on the spiritual side of things than the material side. I’m a fan of living ‘small’. As you see different examples around you, your life is shaped in this direction.”

Just like his mother, he states that he learned how important it is to help those in need from his father, and most of all to be honest. As a result, I took on the responsibility of helping at a very young age. In high school, I spent three days a week with children who were exposed to violence. We would go to the movies with them, eat dinner with them, talk to them to make a positive contribution to their lives at a very young age. or I learned how important it is to help animals. We are obsessed with unnecessary things in life, we worry about ourselves. Taking part in social responsibility projects,It is very important in terms of being with those who need help and supporting them and having a positive impact on people’s lives.”

“We are obsessed with unnecessary things in life, we worry about ourselves. Taking part in social responsibility projects is very important in terms of positively affecting people’s lives.”

Meanwhile, his older sister deals with the script part of acting. She settled in Canada after receiving her master’s degree in New York. Although she is actually a photographer, these days she mainly deals with behind-the-scenes and script works. “My sister is the main artist of the family. She is tremendously talented, she definitely makes a difference in the work she does. I have to give her credit; when I decided to choose acting as a professional profession, my sister supported me more than my parents.” Explaining his devotion to his sister, the actor said, “My father is a man with a very developed organizational ability. He has a unique stance towards life. I think this trait has been passed down to me the most. We are both Gemini, I think we lose there. We are undecided.”

As someone who has lived in different cultures for years, I ask what it means to live abroad… “You learn to respect people’s opinions in every way possible. At the same time, you learn to be open to different ideas. First of all, you grow 100% open to all kinds of positive and negative criticism. Of course, this showed me how rich our world actually is. Your horizons are expanding… You learn to live together with people who are different from you, regardless of their opinion, belief or culture. For example, the social situation of my classmates and their families in the schools I have lived in until today was generally the same.

You go to private school and it’s not much different in the case of the 20 kids in your class. But when we moved to Texas, the situation was different. They enrolled me in a public school. It was a school of 4,000 people with different social opportunities. And so I had friends from every profile. For example, the whereabouts of my best friend’s father was unknown, and his mother was a cashier in a supermarket. Or vice versa. A friend of mine, whose father is the CEO of a large company, used to work at the pizzeria after school. It doesn’t matter who is what! So whoever comes from where; In this way, I learned to accept him as he is and that he is first and foremost a human being in front of me.” After that, I asked him if he had any confusion when he came to Turkey…

“Unfortunately, when I came here for the first time, I witnessed the opposite. Class discrimination is made, and a waiter is treated badly just because he is a waiter. However, the person serving you as a waiter at that moment will walk on the same sidewalk with you when you leave the restaurant, or the street you are sitting on. Sharing…”

In fact, he decided to become an actor when he was a child. Sports occupied an important place in his life. He was on both the school’s and state’s swim teams. However, he stopped swimming after a while due to both the training that he had to attend very early in the morning and the intensity of his classes. Acting, which winked at him in those days, was now the element that excited him the most: “Actually, I realized that I like to do something as a team more than individually. It was precisely those days that I was interested in theater. Even if you are the leading role in the play, it is very nice to work as a team. ” Explaining his fondness for theater, Bürsin has always learned to work as a team thanks to theater. He was also very interested in music at that time. There was even a music group, he was playing the bass guitar. “At that time, the biggest love of my life was music. After school, we would meet up with friends and play like crazy and give concerts. At one point in my life, I wanted to be interested only in music. Of course, my family did not take kindly the idea.”

I make a comment that abroad, especially acting is done in more comfortable conditions and environments. He argues the opposite: “It is more difficult to do something and achieve success in the USA than in Turkey. I was taking acting classes as an elective in high school. And my teacher asked me to do a test shoot for a play. After that test shoot, I got the lead role.” However, it was very difficult for him to take the theater together while swimming tight on the one hand. Thereupon, he opted for the theatre. Good thing he used it then. Because he also has an award within the borders of the USA. He won the ‘Best Actor’ award for his role as Christopher Columbus in an inter-high school competition. He said ‘continue’ to the theater with the experience and award.

I’m more interested in how his adventure in Turkey started than in the USA… Even though he came to his grandmother’s summer house every summer vacation throughout his life, Kerem couldn’t come to Turkey for four years when things were tough. Four years after his last visit, he returned to his father’s land on the occasion of his cousin’s wedding. He was very impressed by Istanbul on his last visit, and felt that he was ‘at home’ the most: “It was a great feeling not to have to tell people how to pronounce Kerem five thousand times. I really liked hearing it. I want to tell a story of a test shoot… I was registered with an agency. One day he called me and said there was a movie called ‘Afghan Farmer’s Son’. I asked for the role immediately, he mentioned a role named Mohad. My name is Kerem, but as a type, I was not related to a man from Afghanistan. He insisted that my type didn’t matter and sent me for a trial interview. On the other hand, I am sure that they will not take me from door to door. Anyway, I went to the interview… I pretended to be someone who had just arrived in Turkey and was ignorant of English; I wouldn’t have gotten the role anyway. Of course they thanked me in the negative, and I then thanked them in English with a proper accent. They were stunned; So I said I wouldn’t get the part anyway, but at least I could stay that way in their minds.” I pretended to be ignorant of English; I wouldn’t have gotten the role anyway. Of course they thanked me in the negative, and I then thanked them in English with a proper accent. They were stunned; So I said I wouldn’t get the part anyway, but at least I could stay that way in their minds.” I pretended to be ignorant of English; I wouldn’t have gotten the role anyway. Of course they thanked me in the negative, and I then thanked them in English with a proper accent. They were stunned; So I said I wouldn’t get the part anyway, but at least I could stay that way in their minds.”

“Even though we always live and speak like Turks in our home in the USA, I was at least as good at English as they did because I lived abroad for many years. That’s why people didn’t believe me when I said I was Turkish.” He tells the real reason why he came back here. While I’m talking about their life at home, I immediately ask him what Turkish dishes are most often cooked at home. He says that they are a classical Turkish family in their house and that his mother cooks all kinds of dishes from stuffed beans to dry beans. “I feel like I grew up in Istanbul in this regard.” He states that he is lucky in terms of food as well.

“At that time, an identity confusion arose. On the one hand, I was waiting for a project to come out in the USA, so that I would make my acting as a Turk speak. On the one hand, you are Turkish until the last drop of your blood, but you have lived abroad all your life, would they accept you in Turkey? ? Life is somehow directing you towards the path you need to go. Of course, in those days, I didn’t even think about settling in Turkey… I thought that I would try acting for a while and, at worst, become a carpenter.” Kerem Bürsin immediately states that he is very talented in carpentry, just like his father. He would love to have a workshop… “What would happen if I didn’t act? I was thinking that I would have a house by the sea, get married, get married and live with children.” He also states that he is really happy with the simple things in his life. Locking up in the garage and doing things is a hobby he had with his father since high school: “It’s a great feeling to create something with one’s own hands. He’s very adept at such things. In this regard, his father said, ‘If someone else can do it, why can’t we?’ He took his motto as a life lesson to himself: “I think this is the best thing I got from my father.” If someone else can do it, why can’t we too?’ He took his motto as a life lesson to himself: “I think this is the best thing I got from my father.” If someone else can do it, why can’t we too?’ He took his motto as a life lesson to himself: “I think this is the best thing I got from my father.”

If we go back to the decision to make a definitive return to Turkey; A painful life experience caused this. Losing his best friend in a traffic accident made him question life at a younger age: “After that accident, I started to question myself and my life once again. We were talking with my lost friend only yesterday and it’s not there today, this may happen to me tomorrow, the day after. Actually, what? “I thought we were as valuable as we were. Yes, I wanted to be an actor, I was doing the things I loved, but somehow my life was slipping out of my hands. I quickly decided to come to Turkey. I came to Turkey and joined the army in Burdur three days later.” He tells that he couldn’t do much in the military because he did his military service, but he made very good friends. He states that at the end of his military service, he was undecided whether to act or not. He lived alone in their house in Istanbul at that time. He tells that he goes out in the middle of the night and lives in the city and listens to himself…

He never forgets those days: “Yes, you hit the bottom of art in Los Angeles, but you are surrounded by a huge nothing. Everything is artificial! But when you come to a place like Istanbul, you come across a full warehouse. Everything from the people of the city to the buildings has a life experience. ” He also states that he was closely related to and followed Galatasaray, Turkey and Istanbul while he was in the USA: “Reading something, imagining it, and actually living and feeling it are two different things.”

“You hit the bottom of art in Los Angeles, but you are surrounded by a huge nothing. Everything is artificial! But when you come to a place like Istanbul, you come across a full warehouse.”

He has no problem with being famous, he tells me with a laugh that I am walking around with my hat on. Frankly, he states that he still does his own grocery shopping easily. Although the space to act according to his mind is reduced now, they do not have such big problems about acting and being famous. He just cares a bit about leading a more isolated life instead of bringing different characters together with the audience, that’s all. Everything is not just a lesson or a method, it is also necessary to live: “I wish I could sit next to a homeless person and spend time with him, but unfortunately I can’t. That’s why we go abroad more often with my girlfriend. Because we are more comfortable abroad. We just sit in the cafe and observe life and people without speaking. This feeds us a little bit.”

As he says almost everywhere, he certainly does not find himself handsome. Interesting man! Either there is a defect in our eyes or our eyesight. “The Kerem you see is a man created by a light artist, make-up artist or photographer.” He has absolutely nothing to do with being handsome or not. It is more important for a person to have energy, charisma and light. In fact, according to him, the main thing is to be human. He also states that an Al Pacino or Robert De Niro is not actually handsome, but they are charismatic. He also immediately says that he looks like his father and that he is more handsome than himself.

Let’s talk about personal tastes. He is very fond of pieces that feel old and lived-in. It has a comfortable and sporty style, but vintage designs do not arouse curiosity. A meticulous, neat and clean man: “I must be in a clean environment, both at home and at work, otherwise I cannot work, I cannot concentrate.” She loves to cook. Guacomole is what it does best. By the way, she does not like to cook according to the recipe, she is a freestyler in the kitchen. In summary of all these; He is a man who can easily take care of himself if left alone. As it is known, he has a relationship that lasts for almost two years; When we look at it from the outside right now, he is a very in love man. However, he has no problem with being alone in life: “I have never had a concern about being alone in my life. I did not take my steps so that I would not be alone… I always had only one choice; And that’s the real relationship I’ve had.” Crowded families are just right for him, he loves children very much. There are so many orphaned children and the world is already crowded enough that I would happily adopt one.” He says he wants to be a father one day.

Kerem Bürsin, whom we are watching as Ali Smith of ‘This City Will Come Behind You’, which is one of Atv’s new projects and whose story he created with his sister, is extremely happy to give life to a character that is very different from the characters he has played so far. “You come into people’s homes every week and become guests… So you’re wondering. Until this role, I always played spoiled and bad roles. I’m in favor of giving life to roles that will have a positive impact on the audience. The subtext of the story we want to tell is that the actor is struggling for success, It’s also exciting for me. So I’m very interested in the freedom of Ali Smith, the character I’m giving life to now, and his traumatized character that we’ll see later.” Bürsin, describing her new character by saying, She loves playing characters that challenge her as an actress, because she worked for this role for over a year. Finally, I ask if he wants to try acting abroad; Of course he wants. It is one of the most important goals at the moment. What shall we say; Let’s say that this man, who is beautiful inside as well as outside, will have a clear path…