In August ~ Exclusive Interview with Nurgül Yeşilçay for TV Novele Magazine ~ Serbia

Nurgül Yeşilçay was jury in 20 European Film Festival Palić in Serbia one week. The journalist from TV Novele Magazine, Stefan Zlatkovic, had chance to take interview from her, which will be available on 5 August. He share his impression from his meeting with Nurgül in http://www.forum.hr, we, from Nurgül Yeşilçay Fan Blog Thanks him. Here is his story…

Written by Stefan Zlatkovic 
(journalist from TV Novele magazine)
(nick on Forum.hr is M_CIMARRO)

She really left a good impression on me. We had no idea if we'll even get the interview. When we arrived to Palic, we called a lady from the festival administration, and she told us there is no chance we'll get an interview since Nurgul had already refused several requests. Then we asked her to check with Nurgul can she spare at least a couple of minutes so we can take her picture with our magazine in her hand, because we won't have our photo crew with us in the upcoming days. She called us after 10 minutes and told us that Nurgul had agreed to take a picture and to meet us at the agreed location.

Nurgul, Ahmet (director of a Turkish film festival) and Nurgul's best friend, finally came after about an hour. They were all relaxed and in a great mood. We already prepared the camera, but Nurgul wasn't up for a mini photo shoot after all, considering she was in a more than casual attire (ordinary t-shirt, shorts and no make up whatsoever). After that we asked her can we at least get an interview. First she was not up for it, but she agreed after a bit of convincing from her best friend and Ahmet.

We had our questions ready in a file and when I opened it her reaction was ''ooooooo'', as in so many questions..lol I emphasized that we talked to a couple of her fans because we wanted to ask her what they wanted to know about her. She confessed that she had no idea she was so popular in Serbia and that people were approaching her and asking for her autograph while she was walking around.

The conversation was going so naturally, and it continued so even after we turned on our voice recorder. Of course I can't say what she told us in the interview before we publish it in our magazine, but I can say that her friend and Ahmet were ''cutting in'' throughout the interview so the whole thing seemed more like a friendly chit chat than an interview. I even didn't have a feeling that I was there in a professional capacity..as a reporter, and I think she got relaxed as well and that, at some point, she even forgot she was talking to press..wich was, of course, our inteniton..lol We followed the usual Q&A formula, but it was not formal in any way.

She wasn't acting out or behaving like a celebrity..she was just a regular girl/woman who was talking to us so relaxed, without distance or hesitation. The only thing she asked us was to answer the questions in turkish (Ahmet was our translator), because she said she completely understands english, but she feels more comfortable when she's answering in her native language. But despite that request, she started to answer the questions in english, and Ahmet translated the rest when she'd switch to turkish.

She was smiling the whole time, and generally in good mood..not just her, but Ahmet and her friend as well. She was surprised by some of the questions, for exapmle, was she afraid that her latest tweet, where she stated that she would kill those responsible for the death of a protester from Ankara, would affect her career. Both she and Ahmet were surprised that we knew about that. Actually, I got the impression that she has no idea that there are people in this region who follow her work. The only question where she kept her answer short was the one regarding her ex husband and the rumors that they'll be making another movie together.

We also got a chance to meet her son, he came at the end of our conversation...he's a really sweet kid. What really surprised me was her approach, if I can call it like that... I expected a self absorbed celebrity, and I met someone who's just the opposite... Even more, she showed us respect from the beginning 'till the end and answered all the questions, even though she had to go and get ready for a movie screening. (we talked to her between her lunch break and the movie screening)

We talked for a while even after the voice recorder was off. She recognized Meryem Uzerli and Burak Hakki on our cover, so we asked her does she know Meryem, and she said she doesn't, but she likes her work. In the end we asked her what does she think about our beer (because she was drinking it during our conversation) and she said it's great.

It's all I can remember right now, because it's really not easy for me to write much without discovering what she told me in the interview. All in all, the impression she left on me is really positive, there is not one negative thing I could say about her..the woman is so natural and very friendly. Maybe some people would hold it against her that she didn't want to pose for a couple of photos, but it was understandable to us, considering the interview would be published in a magazine..it's normal she's cares about her visual public exposure. I think that is the reason why there are just a few photos from the festival, she's not walking around Palic like a movie star, but as a normal girl next door, in casual attire..and I think she spent most of her time just like that.

The inteview itself you can expect in the beginning of August. I'm sorry that the Q&A interview form doesn't allow us to 'throw' in few of my personal thoughts (just to describe the atmosphere) because it was really great. In parts of the conversation, she, Ahmet, her best friend and I were equally participating in the conversation, where I would loose the role of the 'interviewer'..we were 'at the same page' sort of speak...

I don't know what kind of impression we left on her, but she couldn't have left a better one on us. It's a completely different thing that maybe some individuals won't be happy with the questions and/or answers..because we practically talked 'just' about her career, her previous roles, future plans...

She talked about the issues surrounding 'Ask Kirmizi', discovered would she, once again, work with Ozcan Deniz, what is the first thing that comes to her mind when someone mentions 'Ask ve Ceza', why did she accept the part in her new sitcom 'Bebek Isi'..she also talked about her love for painting, how does she reacts to gossip about her... We didn't talk about her private life, meaning, about her marriage to Cem Ozer or her current boyfriend.. But she did tell us how did their love story begin.

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