00:00Prince Hussain asked the man why the carpet he wished to sell was so expensive.
00:14What's the magic word, the one that makes the carpet fly?
00:19Tengu!
00:20That's it, Tengu!
00:21My prince, whoever sits on this carpet, may be transported through the air in an instant.
00:26Alright boys, let's get out of here, all together!
00:29Tengu!
00:30Well, Russell sent me the script and he said, read it, see what female part you like.
00:44And I read it, I said it's wonderful, I love the character.
00:49And the next question was, well, how fast can you learn Turkish?
00:54So of course I said, oh, very fast.
00:57And then I thought, I'll think about it later.
01:00So from that moment, and then he said, the part is yours.
01:03He offered me the part and I was very honoured.
01:06And we met and spoke about the story and the character.
01:10And then I started basically working on my Turkish.
01:13And it was a big challenge because obviously I'm not Turkish, so I wanted to pull it off.
01:19And that was a big responsibility for me.
01:25And I trained a lot with coaches and got Rosetta Stone to learn the language.
01:30Yeah, so that's how I became involved.
01:37Well that's all research and I had to, I watched lots of documentaries, also on Gallipoli,
01:45on the war, the First World War, just to understand the feel.
01:52Also about the country, just the history of Turkey.
01:54I mean, I watched on every subject.
01:57There was not much, it was very hard to find material information about women.
02:04There's a lot of military stuff and war stuff, but not a lot about women.
02:10But I tried and I searched for pictures and, I mean, it's 100 years ago.
02:15So there was just a lot of emerging and understanding the culture.
02:22And I also went to Turkey and met with a woman who was in a similar situation that Ayse is
02:30in the movie.
02:31She was a widow with children, just like my character.
02:37And that also helped me understand, really talking to her helped me understand what the
02:40society was expecting from her, you know, the pressure that she was getting, even when
02:46she's living nowadays, so not 100 years ago.
02:49So it was still the same thing.
02:51So it helped me understand what kind of pressure Ayse could have been going through.
02:58And of course, as you saw in the movie, she's standing against the society, the family,
03:07and goes against what is expected from her.
03:13And tries to protect her little boy, her son, from the truth.
03:21He's lovely, he's great.
03:23He knows, because he's a director, he really knows the language to an actor.
03:28And I mean, because he's an actor himself.
03:31And he just always provided the right circumstances for us on set to be comfortable with.
03:38He knows how the environment and everything around an actor is important.
03:43And he always made sure that it was that way.
03:51I guess you could say that the personal connection is that I was raised by a single mom.
03:56And it's the case in the movie, Ayse raises her little boy by herself.
04:05So maybe in there, you know, just the love and the connection, the strong connection
04:09with your only child, I know what it is.
04:14So maybe unconsciously, I knew what it was like, but I can't really put my finger on it.
04:21It's something unconscious.
04:23You know, I wouldn't really know to tell you exactly how it happens.
04:28It's just the feeling that I know.
04:32Who's the Turk?
04:33Hassan, the assassin.
04:35Walked out of Hothmore Battalion.
04:37We found your sons.
04:39Edward and Henry.
04:42How on God's earth did you know they'd be there?
04:47Arthur, look after me, brothers.
04:49I keep my bloody head down.
04:52If this is your son, he was taken prisoner.
04:56He did not die here.
05:03So he's alive?
05:04I don't know.
05:05But you have hope.
05:06Hope's a necessity where I come from.
05:09The camps are gone.
05:11Go home, Mr. Carter.
05:14Nobody will tell me what prison campers are after.
05:16I will ride with you.
05:20I promised their mother I would find them and bring them home.
05:24I measure a man by how much he loves his children,
05:27not by what the world has done to them.
05:34If you do find your son, what will you say to him?
05:49I'll tell you what I'll tell him.
05:50I'll tell you what I'll tell him.
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