“I have fought for years to ensure that someone with my last name can play Germans without a migration background in this country,” says the new Frankfurt TV cop. What will it be like this time?
As the new Frankfurt “Tatort” duo, television stars Melika Foroutan and Edin Hasanović have consciously decided that their personal immigration story should play a role in the script. “I have a say in this,” said Hasanović in an interview with the newspapers “Münchner Merkur” and “tz” (Friday). “I have fought for years for someone with my last name to be able to play Germans without a migration background in this country. And because we have both emancipated ourselves from this, Melika and I decided together that she would play a detective with Iranian roots and I would play a detective with Bosnian roots. So that we can tell even more exciting stories.”
Cold cases at the centre of the next crime novels
Foroutan and Hasanović will investigate together in the popular Sunday crime drama from 2025. The focus will be on cold cases, i.e. unsolved cases. The names of the roles have not yet been published. The actor is not worried about being reduced to the “Tatort” role later on: “I could imagine that if you start with “Tatort” and do it for ten years, you have difficulties getting other roles. But with 20 years of professional experience like I have, hopefully that won’t happen.”
Hasanović has been appearing in the Netflix film “Game Night” since Friday. In the comedy, a casual meeting in a villa turns into a huge emotional chaos. Hasanović says he has never personally experienced an argument at a game night. “I experience game nights very often because I organize them myself. I’m a game nerd, and if I look back over the last six months, I’ve played at least once a week. But the only stress is persuading people to join in.”
Hasanović says he can lose well
The 32-year-old says that he can lose at games like “Trivial Pursuit,” “Phase 10,” “The Mind” or “Activity.” “But I had to learn not to take the game itself so seriously. It was always important to me that everyone strictly followed the rules. At the beginning, I wasn’t really able to let things slide.”
Source: Stern
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