We catch Turkish actress and producer Selin Yeninci in Cannes, fresh from a panel and even fresher from her second appearance on Verissimo, where Italian audiences welcomed her as one of their own. As Saniye in Terra Amara, the Turkish drama that ran for 121 episodes and travelled to more than 150 countries, she became a household name from the Amalfi Coast to Anatolia.
Selin tells us about the mother and daughter who chased her down a Positano street at half past six in the morning, the Napoletano café owner who FaceTimed his grandmother on the spot - and then watched her leave the house for the first time in years just to meet her favourite actress, and the journalists at Mediaset who unearthed details about her childhood she didn't think existed online.
We also follow her on the road: Milan, Florence, Naples, a rented car all the way down to Sicily and back, and the dream of one day producing a Turkish-Italian co-production of her own. It's a conversation about two Mediterranean cultures that, as Selin puts it, share the same daily rhythm - and recognise each other on sight.
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