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Can Yaman appeared with DJ Sara Bluma at the 82nd Venice Film Festival, accepted a Filming Italy International Award, and said he is preparing to propose.
In a Ciak Magazine interview, he called Sandokan “the role of my life,” outlined the show’s Dec. 1 launch on Raiuno, and walked through intense training and upcoming projects.
Continuing his career in Italy, Yaman showed up at the Venice Film Festival alongside his partner, DJ Sara Bluma, posing together for the international press at the Filming Italy Venice Awards ceremony.
According to reports in the Italian press, he said he had introduced Bluma to his family and is ready to propose within days, calling it “a great love story” and adding, “In the next few days I will officially propose.”
Speaking to Ciak Magazine, Yaman said Sandokan—The Series will begin on Dec. 1 on Raiuno and described being honored the same evening with the Filming Italy International Award during the Ciak party at the Lido.
He said, “Sandokan is the role of my life,” noting that the eight-episode narrative reveals the hero’s past in alternating flashbacks and present-day scenes and lets him shift from a rough pirate to a more ascetic figure.
He said he hopes the project will make local audiences “jealous,” reflecting his confidence in the show’s scale and ambition.
Yaman explained that he moved to Italy five years ago to start the series, but, due to COVID-related delays, could only shoot last year.
He put in five months of rigorous preparation, took dance lessons, and studied the script in both Italian and English, and he said he was required to lose 10 kilograms (2.20 pounds) in 30 days to match the character’s agility.
He described the four-month shoot as physically and mentally intense and said early previews gave him goosebumps.
Comparing production models, he pointed out that European shoots typically cap working days at around 10 hours, while in Türkiye, the director sets the pace, and days can stretch far longer.
He recalled much longer stretches earlier in his career and described a system where channels decide the endpoint of a series by audience response, with teams often filming an episode and airing it immediately to keep up with viewers’ expectations.
While noting that series roles now anchor much of the industry, Yaman said he will also branch out into film with a Spanish-language project in Brazil.
Before that, he plans an action series in Tenerife and a 1990s-set, 20-minute comedy in which he plays against type as an unlucky lover who turns to friends for advice.
He added he has already signed for the second and third seasons of Sandokan and wants to keep switching genres and languages so he does not repeat himself.
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