where we can see Kerem Bürsin and Hande Erçel beyond the successful Turkish series
‘Love is in the Air’ is a series that arouses passions among its fans and they may know little by little what can be seen in each chapter in Kerem Bürsin and Hande Ercel, the two main protagonists of the Turkish fashion series. If that’s the case for you, you might be interested in this review of the rest of the movies and series in which you can see the two actors.
Kerem Bursin
Born in 1987, Bürsin made his first steps as an actor in 2006 with a very minor role in the film. ‘Thursday’then stringing together several short films like ‘Razor Man’, ‘The Architect’ or ‘Killian’ before getting one of the main roles in ‘Sharktopus’, a TV Movie produced by the legendary Roger Corman and airs on the SyFy channel.
However, ‘Sharktopus’ fell far short of achieving the same impact as ‘Sharknado’ just three years later, so he had to wait until 2013 to take part in another film titled ‘Palace of the Condemned’which explains how it becomes complicated to make a documentary when all its members are being killed…
Already in 2014 we could see him in a secondary role of ‘Whisper if I forget’, a film that tells the story of an old singer suffering from Alzheimer’s, who returns to her old home to try to remember her glorious past. It is available in Spain through Amazon Prime Video.
Alongside these two feature films, he also directed the television series ‘Waiting for the sun’ which tells the story of a father and his daughter who move in search of a better life, which allows her to enter the private school where the friend who has taken them in works. It doesn’t take long for him to fall out with the school owner’s son, the role played by Bürsin.
After it ended in 2014, it didn’t take long for Bürsim to sign on for the series ‘Question of respect’, where he took on the role of Yigit, a man whose father committed suicide due to his ties to the mafia. After her, she could be seen in an episode of the series ‘Cursed Istanbul’ before taking a little rest that ended 2017 with ‘This city will come after you’.
For his role as Ali, a man scarred by having watched his mother murder his mother as a child, a ‘This city will come after you’ he was awarded the Best Actor Award at the Seoul International Drama Awards.
Surely this motivated him so much that 2018 was the year in which he participated in a greater number of titles. On the one hand, the movies ‘sacrifice’a war film that headed with Burak Özçivit, and ‘good game’a sports drama in which he had a supporting role.
In addition, it could be seen on television ‘Immortals’a peculiar proposal of vampires that you will find on Netflix divided into eight episodes and of which a second season has been rumored, and ‘The perfect duo’, broadcast between November 2018 and February 2019. The latter revolved around the relationship between two eccentric policemen. that they have a rivalry between them, which they will have to put aside to hunt down a dangerous drug dealer.
The producer behind it ‘The perfect duo’ It went through various financial difficulties, which led to its cancellation after only 12 episodes. Already in 2020 he began to collaborate in several short films of the comic book series ‘exactly’. His last appearance in one of them was broadcast in February of this same 2021, so he had to do it in parallel with his interpretation of Serkan Bolat in ‘Love is in the Air’.
Hande Ercel
Born in 1993, Erçel’s professional acting career did not begin until 2014 and so far she has only participated in an already respectable number of television series. In the same year of her debut she had supporting roles in up to three different series, playing Selen for 13 episodes of ‘Tree of Life’to Meryem in five of ‘Crazy Dersane at university’ and Zahide on the 17th ‘Tree of Life’.
In 2015 he got his first big break ‘Sunshine Girls’, Turkish series about a 35-year-old literature teacher who is abandoned by her husband for no reason and decides to remarry to secure the future of her daughters. Erçel was not yet the protagonist, but the weight of his character was much greater than in previous works.
Her first leading role came after the conclusion of the 39 episodes of ‘Sunshine Girls’, as from there she made the jump to ‘Hayat: love without words’, series broadcast at the time in Spain through the Divinity channel and which can currently be seen on Mitele. Erçel brought to life here Hayat, a young woman with strict parents who starts a relationship with her boss, but a series of secrets from her past threaten to ruin both her career and her relationship.
The lead roles kept coming ‘Black Pearl’where he gave life to a young bride who was forced to marry another man, ‘Ring’an action series with hints of detective stories, or ‘holy’where he was part of an impossible love story.
Of course, each was shorter than the previous one, going from 20 chapters in ‘Siyah Inci’ to 19 in ‘Halka’, leaving the count at just six with ‘Azize’. ‘Love is in the Air’ is by far their longest running series as it has currently aired 38 episodes and is guaranteed to continue until September with a new episode every week.
