Burcu Biricik shared her process with Variety. She describes how she prepared herself for the role and how it is not just about one woman, but about women in Turkey, a women’s inner struggles, and reinventing herself. FATMA, which Variety calls ‘groundbreaking,’ is on Netflix!
Producer Başak Abacigil was involved in the process since the inception of the idea , up-and-coming talent Özgür Önurme turned that idea into a great script, and Özer Feyzioğlu directed FATMA. The series is about an ‘ordinary’ house cleaner Fatma, committing an unintentional murder while searching for her missing husband and having to continue to kill people as a result of the ensuing events. Netflix Turkey’s Original Content Director Pelin Diştaş describes it as a ‘punch in your stomach.’
Burcu Biricik who plays Fatma says: I don’t want this show to be put in a single box as just purely a strong female empowerment story. I believe it serves for something much deeper, and the story is [about] much more than that. We’ve been exposed to many male-dominated stories in the past. Unlike all the invisible women in these male-dominated stories, Fatma discovers her invisibility and creates a new self. Plus, she no longer needs the men in her story [in order] to exist. [She is] a woman who is forced to become invisible, ignored; who has no right to speak. On one hand she is struggling with the system, and on the other hand, she is fighting for her existence with a son who has autism spectrum disorder and [also] dealing with her missing husband. I think this is what gives the show its strong female theme.
FATMA is only on Netflix in 190 countries around the world.
FATMA:
Reeling from tragedy, a nondescript house cleaner embarks on a murderous streak as she searches for her missing husband and reckons with old wounds.
Genres
Social Issue TV Dramas, TV Thrillers, TV Dramas
Cast
Burcu Biricik
Uğur Yücel
Mehmet Yılmaz Ak
Hazal Türesan
Olgun Toker
Mustafa Tonak
Şehsuvar Aktaş
Umut Kurt
Sabahattin Yakut
Ecem Uzun