Acting was never part of Can Yaman<\/strong>\u2019s plan. The Turkish heartthrob studied law and was working on his career path when friends encouraged him to try his luck in front of the camera. The rest is history. After enrolling in acting classes, Yaman<\/a>‘s looks and screen presence quickly caught the industry\u2019s attention, and in 2014, he landed his first role. Yaman became a star in Turkey, making his international breakthrough four years later. Since, he’s moved from one global project to the next, with his latest, an ambitious international period drama titled “El Turco<\/a>,” bringing him to Spain.\u00a0<\/p>\n Yaman is fully aware of the reaction his appearance provokes, having thousands of fans from all over the world. But, as he recently revealed, it wasn\u2019t always that way. During an appearance on the Spanish talk show “El Hormiguero<\/strong>,” host Pablo Motos<\/strong> jokingly told him he had read that Yaman was \u201cvery ugly\u201d as a baby. The actor laughed. \u201cRight after I was born. I was covered in hair\u2014so much hair that they practically took me straight to the hairdresser,” he said.<\/p>\n Yaman shared his father\u2019s reaction when he first saw him. \u201cMy father said to the doctors, \u2018You must have mixed him up with another baby, because he doesn\u2019t look like my son,\u2019\u201d he recalled. \u201cAfter a month, everything was fine.\u201d Playful about his current image, he added, \u201cThey\u2019ve tried many times to make me look uglier. They didn\u2019t succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n During his time in Spain, Yaman has impressed audiences with his fluent Spanish<\/a>, a language he began studying while filming the TV show “Sandokan<\/a>” in Italy. \u201cI decided I wanted to come to Spain, to live and work here,\u201d he said. \u201cI told my agent that after filming, I wanted to move and study Spanish.\u201d<\/p>\n Yaman committed fully, spending a year attending lessons five days a week for four hours a day. The effort paid off. He has since filmed “El laberinto de las mariposas<\/strong>” entirely in Spanish.\u00a0<\/p>\n Yaman also addressed recent headlines about his brief detention during a police raid at a nightclub in Istanbul, making it clear that he had nothing to hide. In comments made to the Spanish news outlet Vertele<\/em>, he explained that such checks are routine in Turkey and have affected many public figures.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThey do it to everyone. Before I arrived, many famous people had already been detained,\u201d he said. \u201cThey stopped me and released me immediately. We had nothing on us. The next day I flew to Italy, and everything continued as it should.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.hola.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Acting was never part of Can Yaman\u2019s plan. The Turkish heartthrob studied law and was working on his career path when friends encouraged him to try his luck in front of the camera. The rest is history. 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