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Everybody introduces themselves. And Håkon says that they’re still producing and thats why everybody couldn’t be there. Håkon likes Eskilds character the best.
Mutasim: Hei hei. My name is Mutasim and I play Mutasim. And I don’t know what else to say. My favorite character is Chris - girl Chris. Good actress.
Cengiz: should I introduce myself? I’m Cengiz, its like Ghengis Khan. (pronunciation of his name) I’m 19. And turning 20 today. No yesterday. What else should I say. I’ve never done any acting before. So this is very new for me. But its very fun to be here and speak before you. My favourite actor is many actually. I think like Håkon over there that Eskild has been really good. Chris. Really all, many are good. And I also think Vilde. Of course I like all the characters. Sana is a really important character. I support all of them. All my colleagues are great.
Simo: Hi, I´m Simo and I´m Sana’s brother, Elias. My favourite actor, I wanna say first everyone is amazing. But if I have to choose one it would be Sana.
Yousef: My name is Yousef, and I play Mikael. My favourite character is maybe Even. An (unpredictable?) character.
Adam: Hi everybody, I’m Adam and i play Adam. I’m 18 and really an artist and suddenly I’m an actor. My favourite is Jonas or Marlon. I’ve known Marlon for many years. We used to skate together and are buds. And one day he was like, “Adam I’ll be in this new show on NRK,” and we were like, “okay… Is that cool?” And it was really fun to watch how it turned out.
Q: Many of you share the name of your character. And a lot of us are curious to know, how similar are you to your character?
Mutasim: If I understood you correctly (the boys are having trouble understanding the danish) I actually felt that the balloon crew is quite like us, and I think maybe that’s why Julie picked us. Because she wanted us to be ourselves. Vilde or Sana is a big difference. Sana is two really different people. Iman likes to wear colours and smiles all the time, while Sana…. Well you know what Sana is like. She’s cool though, both as Sana and Iman.
Cengiz: Yeah, Yousef isnt quite Cengiz. He’s not muslim, amongst other things, and Cengiz is muslim (I dont know why he chose to refer to himself in third person here. Lol), that I need to point out. Yousef’s done something dumb, sort of, that Cengiz wouldn’t do in real life. He’s, like the character thats supposed to, like, I was called, Julie told me, “you’re gonna be the next William,” and I was just like, “I don’t wanna be William!” So I chose to twist him into this really nice chap, a good guy, but then he messed up I think, or I was set to make him mess up, that was the job, He’s not like me. Mostly I’m nice like Yousef, so that similarity we do have, but I try not to play Cengiz, because thats what I like, to be an actor, so thats what I do, act.
Simo: Elias Bakkoush, ehm, I can’t see much of myself in him, to put it like that. Elias is a character who is lost. He can go from fighting outside of a party to sitting on the swings and having a heart to heart with his sister, but in some situations I can see myself in him. He’s a spontaneous dude who’s quite hilarious. So I’ll say its partly true.
Yousef: Yeah, so I might not have gotten a lot of opportunities to get to know the character I’m playing. So lots of the sсript is improv where we get to be ourselves and that works really good really (yes he said really really). So its really not much difference between how I behave on set and….
Adam: yes, I agree totally with Mutta I think Yousef and Elias and …..Simo, sorry, sorry, is quit similar. I feel like we often play much of ourselves, like Yousef said. Theres a lot of improv and then we really are just ourselves so that works out. (everyone cracks up)
Q: A lot of people want to know how much is improv and how much is scripted when you make the YouTube videos. (She said a lot more, but danish is ehh)
Mutasim: Oh, okay, I can say that the first episode was… then we had a sсript, but all the other ones there wasn’t sсript we were just ourselves, we laugh.
Cengiz: we’re ourselves I would say.
Mutasim: Yes, and there, yes
Cengiz: Yeah, we’re mostly ourselves. But we also have to think about what has happened in the show when we record because there was a period there where Elias´ sister walks in mid take and Yousef doesn’t like that, and I tried to make that show, not like yourself Cengiz, you have to like think about whats happened in the show before that, and you have to speak based on that, but based on that we are ourselves, so that’s whats kinda important to keep track of, or like keep control over, that whats happened in the show so far and whats gonna happen kind of, so you have to think about that kind of stuff. Because you guys are like “oh, yeah, cool.” But we think about everything, kinda. Soo, yeah, thats what I would say.
Simo: Well, the youtube videos mostly goes like we get a subject or a challenge and based on that we improv. There comes some situations out of the youtube videos that’s not in the episodes, but I feel like the Youtube videos, for my own part, has given me stronger bonds to these guys, instead of just playing the regular show, so …
Yousef: Yeah, its like Simo says, we get a totally different subject, but the way we approach it is all up to us. I feel like thats why the youtube videos has become really natural. I felt that several times I wasn’t aware if the camera was on or not. And the laughter in many of those videos are totally real.
Adam: Now they said most of it. But one thing that’s attached to the previous question is that one of my closest buddies sent me a snapchat and I don’t remember exactly what he wrote, and that was like last week, and he didn’t think, he thought, or he knew that we were a part of Skam, but he thought that we were Adam and Yousef and Simo and not the characters, and I was like “huh?” So then it seemed like we were a lot like we are in real life, since he didn’t get that it only was…laughter drowning the ending, so yes, we’re ourselves a lot, like they said improv.
Håkon: I would like to comment on this. It’s like this, Skam is a drama series, its not a documentary from Oslo. I just have to underline that. And those who play in the show are actors. Also it’s like this, Julie is an amazingly talented director and all the actors get scripts and in some parts of the sсript, especially dialogue parts, there’s room for improv, but the actors are hired to play parts, and it’s maybe like here two of you have quite big parts, Simo and Cengiz, while you other three have maybe smaller parts, and then it is, then maybe you use yourself a bit more. But when it comes to Hei Briskeby, thats maybe where, in the Skam universe, there is the highest degree of reality meeting fiction and there is sliding transitions and sсript in a lesser degree. So that’s a totally different kind of production, but the Skam production is reminiscent of a drama production, its just done with a lot less money and its not a lot of people on set. So yeah.
(I swear, its not my translating, the boys start sentences and end them mid-sentence and never finish a sentence, and just ramble) @maksisskambackwards
Q: Did you know each other before Skam? How is your relationship outside of Skam?
The guys all look confused. Don’t understand the question. Someone shouts it in Norwegian.
Mutasim: I’m sorry. I don’t… Yeah. No, we didn’t know each other before Skam. But I feel like we clicked the moment we met. We didn’t shake hands, it was like HUG. Bro, bros.
Yousef: Bro.
Mutasim: Bros. Instantly. Like. So. That was it yes.
Cengiz: I could … Yeah okay - passes the mic to Adam
Adam: I have to tell a story. From the first day on set. When we met. Me and Yousef knew each other from before. We went to Elvebakken in real life. This year. And when we arrived on set we just greeted each other and stuff like that and got to know each other and left to meet the girls. And they thought we had known each other for like ten years and we had known each other for like ten minutes. So we clicked really well together and it’s turned into us hanging out a lot in our spare time too. So we’ve gotten to know each other better and better.
Yousef: With balloons. Every time.
Simo: For my part I didn’t know almost who any of these guys were. Save from Adam, cuz I had heard some of his songs. Adam sorry (don’t know why he apologized?). But like they said, the first day, we just had chemistry. And in addition to the Briskeby vids where its just us alone, where our bond got even stronger, and its not just that, we meet a lot. In our spare time. At each others houses. So we kinda have this buddy bond, where it feels like we’ve known each other for years when really we’ve known each other for three years. three months I mean.
Cengiz: ehhhhhhhh…. I lost it. What is it were talking about.
Mutasim: We’re talking about friends.
Cengiz: Yeah, friends, right. Of course. We didn’t know each other. We didn’t. And I live in Drammen so I don’t have anybody in Oslo. The only one I know in Skam is the guy who plays Penetrator Chris and thats my best friend and it’s actually through him I’ve been spotted on stage by Julie Andem. So thats why I’m here really. So yeah, its nothing more than that.
Mutasim: And we’re really alike too, sooo…
Q: What is it like to be in a Norwegian show known all over the world? What is it like to see comments on your instagram feeds (and something something)
Mutasim: It’s actually kinda crazy. It’s become so big. Like you get messages from people in Russia, and they don’t write Norwegian, the write Russian. And to me thats just symbols, like “dsjo dsjo dsjo”, and I like don’t understand it, and just write question mark and a heart. So it’s kinda like that. It’s cool.
Cengiz: Yeah, it’s been a really big transition. That I have to underline. It’s been really tough for me. It’s been really tough. It was like a quick change, and suddenly you get these looks like, how do you act considerate. You don’t want to come off as cocky or mean, you want to smile, but when someone serves you looks should you, I mean you know she looks at you, you can see it, and do you look back and smile or should you just walk like a normal person? If you walk normally you can be perceived as a cocky type, but, I don’t know, its kinda… its kinda… it was really hard to be considerate, and it’s still really hard to be quite honest. Like he says you get a lot of messages and you want to answer everybody but you don’t have the time to. And if you answer they send a new message back and if you answer that they send a new one, right? And it is annoying, you have to be honest and say that, if you get ten messages, or a hundred or whatever it turns into, you don’t have a private life anymore (omg he sounded so hurt here:/) and that’s something you have to be honest and say. But it is really nice! Because you know they send messages because they like you and then I want to come back with something, but then I try to communicate via my Instagram pictures. You understand? So I try to show the fans that I love them for loving me and that it’s them putting me where I am. So I don’t want to come off as mean at all, and I’m really not. So if anyone wants to meet me here now, of course I’ll speak with them. That’s no stress. That is only nice. So yeah. That’s what I’ve got to say.
Simo: Me? Well it’s not to much to add. It is shocking. I didn’t know it would be like this, you know. From 250 followers to yeah, 10,000. But like Mutta said before you get a lot of messages in languages you don’t understand and its not that great to leave them unseen, so usually I answer with emojis like this (*palms together*). I don’t know if that’s rude or not, but it’s better then nothing. But I feel like for them they feel that I give them something. For them its something important, the work we do. And that we really, WE really appreciate all the love and yeah support we get.
Yousef: yeah, I’m kinda spaced (with reality) when it comes to social media. Cuz everything happens behind a screen, so it’s difficult to answer because you can’t satisfy everybody. But I try to respond to serious approaches to the best of my abilities. So yeah, that really. But it hasn’t really dawned on me yet, that it’s people from all over the world watching (mumbles something).
Adam: It’s like they said, totally crazy. And often I open messages, and like Mutta, I press heart. That’s what’s fastest to write. And then they’re like “OMG you answered” and I’m really lying in bed and having nothing else to do. It’s not like I … I’m like “are you seriously that happy?” I’m on my phone all the time, like. But it’s really really nice and fun and I wish I could answer everybody, but you can’t. And there’s one more thing I wanted to say in reference to fans from all over the world, like I said I do music, in Norwegian, and many people go like “awesome song. I don’t understand what you say, but it’s really cool.” And I released a new music video a while back and the top comment with most likes is ”I don’t understand a single word but this is the best song ever.” But it is really really fun and nice.
Q: Kosegruppa dk wonders: What is it like to work together with Iman?
Cengiz: *Repeats the question* I can put it like this: we were a lot alike. We laugh all the time, mess around like hell, and were not afraid to touch each other, there doesn’t need to be limits to touching, but that we know. She’s a very good lady, or girl. And really fun to work with, and easy to get to know, and so am I, so we clicked pretty fast, and thats what was important to me, who was completely new this season and was supposed to take on that role and had never done acting before and I knew already from the beginning that I was supposed to kiss Josefine and I was really stressed about that. And i spoke with her (Iman) about how I should do all that and she helped me through all of it and it was her getting sad right so… That was really strange. I was thinking okay so now I’m in the acting world, and it’s actually just like this. It’s fake, all of it, you play it real. There was a time where my girlfriend came to me and said “this is really sad to say Cengiz, but I got really jealous when I watched you in that one scene, and you have to be allowed to do it but I think it’s kinda sad, but you have to hear that you (act like you’re really) in love and it’s really good. Because all the fans believe in it.” But it wasn’t easy either. It was harder playing emotional scenes with Iman than playing the kissing scene, actually, because it’s about looking this person in the eyes, and it’s Iman and you’re like what the fuck am I looking at, you know! It’s been like ten minute staring contests without laughing, but its that moment when you started to laugh it became sweet, you know. Julie just gets it, she knows what to do, like, so it wasn’t so hard to play it either. Because Julie got it, she pressed, she played us really, tricked Iman and me into playing a romantic scene in a fun way so it became romantic on screen. It was fun then and there, my god. But it is really easy to act with her, at least, she’s really talented and really positive all the time, all the time yes. I’ve never seen her mad or anything. Yeah, really fun all the time. The whole team. Thank you to the whole team for being there for me and supporting me, I was totally lost, like I’m kissing Josefine, fuck, and the first time I met her I just (was like) “hi.” And in my mind I was like “I’m kissing you later” like in front of camera. Not before or after, it’s so strange you don’t get to try before either, because then it’s wrong because it’s private, but in front of the camera it’s not private and then you can do it, that’s like, I think it was weird, but everyone on the team helped me a lot with it, so that I really appreciate.
Q: same question for Simo.
Simo: Iman, Sana that is, I got the part because she and I had a brother and sister connection when I auditioned. That’s why I got the part. But I can be honest and say that at the beginning of the season it was quite scary, to put it that way. Because it’s something unfamiliar for me, I had never thought to do this my whole life, but behind the camera she got me to forget that, forgot the stress, helped me make it. And in many scenes, amongst others, the swing set scene, I actually forgot that we were in front of the camera and that we, that I wasn’t actually sitting there talking to my biological sister. So the connection I feel like I have with Sana, or Iman. Iman, sorry, that I feel is quite real. Like when we’re behind or in front of the camera.
(They start taking questions from the audience)
Q: Yousef, when you made the movie in s3 did you know that you would be in season 4?
Yousef: No. Then I was just an extra. But I think maybe it had something to do with the chemistry I had with Even/Henrik. And maybe Julie thought it would be cool to bring him back again. That was a while ago now. Yeah, so I didn’t know that I was joining.
(lots of mumbling because people are afraid to ask)
Q: I have two questions. 1: what episode is your favourite? 2: Who is Julian Dahl in Skam?
(all the guys immediately ask Håkon what the question was)
Adam: That’s hard. But I have to say the balloon scene. Some clips or pictures of us with the balloons (were already leaked) and we were already marked as the balloon squad before the season was released. And all my friends wondered to. When is it coming, when is it coming. And when it did arrive, I was hidden behind all the balloons, but it was very funny when that clip came out. And then social media ran off. And that was fun. And then the next one was, who’s Julian Dahl?
(lots of suggestions from the audience)
Yousef: I’m sorry to tell you that I’ve never watched Skam.
(everybody laughing)
Yousef: I saw season 2 during a night marathon. And I watch this season, I have to, but favourite episode… I say the balloon scene. I don’t know who julian dahl is.
Cengiz: Favourite scene? That really has to be the scene that was most challenging for me, because it was, and that was episode 9. because because
(audience interrupts. “What scene?”)
Cengiz: What scene… It’s the last date. It’s because of the challenge, and I love that. Because we got the sсript four hours before. And taped it til 0145 in the night and we sat there freezing really, and I forgot my lines and I could get out of character because Yousef was supposed to say a lot, and it had to be literal (as written in the sсript), because it was a lot of facts, you know, so then Cengiz couldn’t just toss in some bits here and there. Maybe he could be (??? this boy talks so fast y’all) when he said it, but that you couldn’t see. It had to be word by word. And you got the sсript four hours before. And that’s what was really fun with Skam, it was really flexible. You weren’t supposed to get the sсript a week prior, because then you just memorized it and didn’t get to show what you wanted to bring to the character. And that’s why that was my favourite scene. Because it was really challenging, and it was actually one of the…. It came out sweet, plain and simple. It was. It was some, you kinda don’t get to know if they’re together yet, or, they’re just one date, like, they’re good and that’s what you get to know. And that’s challenging, yeah. That’s what i have to say, and i don’t know about Julian Dahl.
Mutasim: Favourite scene? I’m on board with “fy faen” at the tram station, when we walked, that was quite cool. But. And that talk Elias had with Sana. That was quite sweet and yeah that was pretty good I think. Julian Dahl maybe you should answer *hands mic to Håkon*
Håkon: I’m Julian Dahl. No, best scene is the one you haven’t seen yet. I think now in this season it’s been several scenes in Skam history, with characters and story and music that goes up in a higher unity. And the Fy Faen clip with you guys, is like a crazy example of that, when (we?) realized it had 300,000 streams and now it’s passed 20 million. When I saw that I was jumping in my chair because it was so amazing to see how the use of music in a film, tv series, … and now it’s also been with “Jeg håper du har plass” with S´Cezinando and that scene where it’s kinda a story where it’s like Sana is pressed so far down, Julie has pressed her, she’s in such a bad place, it’s almost not possible to feel worse, and then the release comes with that Cezinando song, I think that was, that’s art. And I also think the music in the last scene with you (to Cengiz) on the docks in Oslo is great.
*gives the mic away* *audience interupts* “Julian Dahl???!”
Q: I would like to hear what you guys do when you’re not acting in skam. I would like to hear from some of you, and if you plan to be actors in the future or is it just for now, what are your plans.
Mutasim: I used to play football and then I became injured and now I’m training to get back. And if I want to keep acting? Yes of course I would like to. And I would like to study, so…
Cengiz: Yeah. I haven’t been acting before at all. I danced a lot. Played football for eight years but decided to give that up. That was kinda tough decision for me, because boys play football and they’re not supposed to dance in Drammen where I come from. It was a tough decision for me then and there, but I chose to go all in for dancing and that turned out really well. I love to dance. I like to show my feelings for dancing without speaking for example, so that the audience sees what I’m bringing. And that I would like to keep doing. I will keep doing that because we’re making a dance video soon, or we’re doing it now, we’re on it, because there’s a lot of people wanting to see that. After Skam I have a project that I can’t say anything about, plain and simple. And i feel like i have a responsibility towards 200,000 fans and to influence them or inspire them in a positive way and then I want to use my creativity and what I’m inspired by to motivate them in a positive way to do something positive, plain and simple. And that I’ll do within my dancing and by posting pictures with meaning like a project I just did called antisocial where I got the idea from my sweater where it said antisocial and it went really well. People didn’t get the message until the last picture and then they got what the whole thing was about. So being creative is what I really want to do and express myself through several channels within tv, dancing, marketing, project management and I have a really high self esteem in a positive way so I’m really open for everything. So I feel like I can do most anything.
Simo: well, I’ve completed high school, or like you call it “gymnaset”, is that correct? Luckily. I work. I do child care and youth work. That’s my education and I would really like to study more in college. And about acting, if I get another offer I wouldn’t refuse it. I feel really comfortable on set, in front of the camera, so we’ll see what the future holds.
Yousef: yeah, so I’m still in high school. I’ll actually go (???) And I’ve danced for six years. Breakdance. But I’m not that active on that front anymore, because I’m really kind of tired from it. I don’t have any really exciting plans for the future, other than take what I can get. And I read a bit and I’m interested in astronomy. And yeah. That’s it really.
Adam: Yes, like I’ve tried to bring to the front as much as possible today, I think I’ve said it two times already, I’m an artist. I got my diploma from high school two days ago, so now I’m fiiiinally done with school. So now I can, and shall, go 100% in on my music, and go for the music, and make a lot of music, so that’s really the plan, I don’t have a job or other school I attend at the moment. Mom and dad aren’t too happy about that, but I’ll show them with my music.
Q: Whats your favourite line that you said?
Cengiz: Favourite line. There’s been a lot, or some of those improvs, because it’s been really natural. But now I have to be completely honest and say that I don’t remember because it’s been a lot of lines. But really I like the conversations between Yousef and Sana in the last episode. Or in this season it’s probably lots of other Yousef lines in the other episodes, but right now I don’t remember unfortunately. But for now it’s really that season, or that episode, that’s it.
Simo: I think, on my part, my favourite line is when i sat on the swings with Sana and said “What’s more important, to walk around saying you believe in Allah or living like you believe in Allah?”
Yousef: I don’t have any lines. So i think the favourite is the only one and thats like “Let Sana try” or something.
Adam: I think the line I have is the one right after that. Sana should toss Elias´ socks into the lamp “just when Snoop Dog says smoke weed every day”
Q: What do you think this season means for young people in Norway, or Scandinavia?
Lots of danish
Håkon: I think it is really positive both for minority youth and majority youth. Like we spoke of earlier, it brings a more nuanced picture, and that the world isn’t so black and white as you can get the impression of through media and comment sections in the tabloids. So I think it’s a really important season, and personally maybe the season I’m most proud of. That Julie went for Sana’s story, it could have been five other characters. Five other directions, but she did it. She had the guts for it. And it was originally an area she knew very little about, so it’s an enormous amount of work behind this season and an enormous amount of research. And it feels very right this season. So I think it will be standing. I hope so.
And lastly while I have the floor, I just want to thank the Danish Skam fans, you guys, it feels like the heart of Skam has moved from Oslo to Denmark. Once it was a Norwegian show, but now it’s become at least half Danish, it’s enormous what that Kosegruppa and others have made happen, both today and at other times. It feels like there’s a heatwave coming from Denmark every single week and that means (so) much to the entire crew. Stuff is coming all the time to our door, cupcakes are coming, and ?? And it was a delegation there during Easter, and you’re quite crazy, it’s like Skam is a band you’re fans of. But it’s great you’re the best in the world at analyzing Skam. I think you guys have understood more of Skam than anyone else. You’re cool. Congratulations to you and thank you so much.
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альтернативный текстовый перевод
Everybody introduces themselves. And Håkon says that they’re still producing and thats why everybody couldn’t be there. Håkon likes Eskilds character the best.
Mutasim: Hei hei. My name is Mutasim and I play Mutasim. And I don’t know what else to say. My favorite character is Chris - girl Chris. Good actress.
Cengiz: should I introduce myself? I’m Cengiz, its like Ghengis Khan. (pronunciation of his name) I’m 19. And turning 20 today. No yesterday. What else should I say. I’ve never done any acting before. So this is very new for me. But its very fun to be here and speak before you. My favourite actor is many actually. I think like Håkon over there that Eskild has been really good. Chris. Really all, many are good. And I also think Vilde. Of course I like all the characters. Sana is a really important character. I support all of them. All my colleagues are great.
Simo: Hi, I´m Simo and I´m Sana’s brother, Elias. My favourite actor, I wanna say first everyone is amazing. But if I have to choose one it would be Sana.
Yousef: My name is Yousef, and I play Mikael. My favourite character is maybe Even. An (unpredictable?) character.
Adam: Hi everybody, I’m Adam and i play Adam. I’m 18 and really an artist and suddenly I’m an actor. My favourite is Jonas or Marlon. I’ve known Marlon for many years. We used to skate together and are buds. And one day he was like, “Adam I’ll be in this new show on NRK,” and we were like, “okay… Is that cool?” And it was really fun to watch how it turned out.
Q: Many of you share the name of your character. And a lot of us are curious to know, how similar are you to your character?
Mutasim: If I understood you correctly (the boys are having trouble understanding the danish) I actually felt that the balloon crew is quite like us, and I think maybe that’s why Julie picked us. Because she wanted us to be ourselves. Vilde or Sana is a big difference. Sana is two really different people. Iman likes to wear colours and smiles all the time, while Sana…. Well you know what Sana is like. She’s cool though, both as Sana and Iman.
Cengiz: Yeah, Yousef isnt quite Cengiz. He’s not muslim, amongst other things, and Cengiz is muslim (I dont know why he chose to refer to himself in third person here. Lol), that I need to point out. Yousef’s done something dumb, sort of, that Cengiz wouldn’t do in real life. He’s, like the character thats supposed to, like, I was called, Julie told me, “you’re gonna be the next William,” and I was just like, “I don’t wanna be William!” So I chose to twist him into this really nice chap, a good guy, but then he messed up I think, or I was set to make him mess up, that was the job, He’s not like me. Mostly I’m nice like Yousef, so that similarity we do have, but I try not to play Cengiz, because thats what I like, to be an actor, so thats what I do, act.
Simo: Elias Bakkoush, ehm, I can’t see much of myself in him, to put it like that. Elias is a character who is lost. He can go from fighting outside of a party to sitting on the swings and having a heart to heart with his sister, but in some situations I can see myself in him. He’s a spontaneous dude who’s quite hilarious. So I’ll say its partly true.
Yousef: Yeah, so I might not have gotten a lot of opportunities to get to know the character I’m playing. So lots of the sсript is improv where we get to be ourselves and that works really good really (yes he said really really). So its really not much difference between how I behave on set and….
Adam: yes, I agree totally with Mutta I think Yousef and Elias and …..Simo, sorry, sorry, is quit similar. I feel like we often play much of ourselves, like Yousef said. Theres a lot of improv and then we really are just ourselves so that works out. (everyone cracks up)
Q: A lot of people want to know how much is improv and how much is scripted when you make the YouTube videos. (She said a lot more, but danish is ehh)
Mutasim: Oh, okay, I can say that the first episode was… then we had a sсript, but all the other ones there wasn’t sсript we were just ourselves, we laugh.
Cengiz: we’re ourselves I would say.
Mutasim: Yes, and there, yes
Cengiz: Yeah, we’re mostly ourselves. But we also have to think about what has happened in the show when we record because there was a period there where Elias´ sister walks in mid take and Yousef doesn’t like that, and I tried to make that show, not like yourself Cengiz, you have to like think about whats happened in the show before that, and you have to speak based on that, but based on that we are ourselves, so that’s whats kinda important to keep track of, or like keep control over, that whats happened in the show so far and whats gonna happen kind of, so you have to think about that kind of stuff. Because you guys are like “oh, yeah, cool.” But we think about everything, kinda. Soo, yeah, thats what I would say.
Simo: Well, the youtube videos mostly goes like we get a subject or a challenge and based on that we improv. There comes some situations out of the youtube videos that’s not in the episodes, but I feel like the Youtube videos, for my own part, has given me stronger bonds to these guys, instead of just playing the regular show, so …
Yousef: Yeah, its like Simo says, we get a totally different subject, but the way we approach it is all up to us. I feel like thats why the youtube videos has become really natural. I felt that several times I wasn’t aware if the camera was on or not. And the laughter in many of those videos are totally real.
Adam: Now they said most of it. But one thing that’s attached to the previous question is that one of my closest buddies sent me a snapchat and I don’t remember exactly what he wrote, and that was like last week, and he didn’t think, he thought, or he knew that we were a part of Skam, but he thought that we were Adam and Yousef and Simo and not the characters, and I was like “huh?” So then it seemed like we were a lot like we are in real life, since he didn’t get that it only was…laughter drowning the ending, so yes, we’re ourselves a lot, like they said improv.
Håkon: I would like to comment on this. It’s like this, Skam is a drama series, its not a documentary from Oslo. I just have to underline that. And those who play in the show are actors. Also it’s like this, Julie is an amazingly talented director and all the actors get scripts and in some parts of the sсript, especially dialogue parts, there’s room for improv, but the actors are hired to play parts, and it’s maybe like here two of you have quite big parts, Simo and Cengiz, while you other three have maybe smaller parts, and then it is, then maybe you use yourself a bit more. But when it comes to Hei Briskeby, thats maybe where, in the Skam universe, there is the highest degree of reality meeting fiction and there is sliding transitions and sсript in a lesser degree. So that’s a totally different kind of production, but the Skam production is reminiscent of a drama production, its just done with a lot less money and its not a lot of people on set. So yeah.
(I swear, its not my translating, the boys start sentences and end them mid-sentence and never finish a sentence, and just ramble) @maksisskambackwards
Q: Did you know each other before Skam? How is your relationship outside of Skam?
The guys all look confused. Don’t understand the question. Someone shouts it in Norwegian.
Mutasim: I’m sorry. I don’t… Yeah. No, we didn’t know each other before Skam. But I feel like we clicked the moment we met. We didn’t shake hands, it was like HUG. Bro, bros.
Yousef: Bro.
Mutasim: Bros. Instantly. Like. So. That was it yes.
Cengiz: I could … Yeah okay - passes the mic to Adam
Adam: I have to tell a story. From the first day on set. When we met. Me and Yousef knew each other from before. We went to Elvebakken in real life. This year. And when we arrived on set we just greeted each other and stuff like that and got to know each other and left to meet the girls. And they thought we had known each other for like ten years and we had known each other for like ten minutes. So we clicked really well together and it’s turned into us hanging out a lot in our spare time too. So we’ve gotten to know each other better and better.
Yousef: With balloons. Every time.
Simo: For my part I didn’t know almost who any of these guys were. Save from Adam, cuz I had heard some of his songs. Adam sorry (don’t know why he apologized?). But like they said, the first day, we just had chemistry. And in addition to the Briskeby vids where its just us alone, where our bond got even stronger, and its not just that, we meet a lot. In our spare time. At each others houses. So we kinda have this buddy bond, where it feels like we’ve known each other for years when really we’ve known each other for three years. three months I mean.
Cengiz: ehhhhhhhh…. I lost it. What is it were talking about.
Mutasim: We’re talking about friends.
Cengiz: Yeah, friends, right. Of course. We didn’t know each other. We didn’t. And I live in Drammen so I don’t have anybody in Oslo. The only one I know in Skam is the guy who plays Penetrator Chris and thats my best friend and it’s actually through him I’ve been spotted on stage by Julie Andem. So thats why I’m here really. So yeah, its nothing more than that.
Mutasim: And we’re really alike too, sooo…
Q: What is it like to be in a Norwegian show known all over the world? What is it like to see comments on your instagram feeds (and something something)
Mutasim: It’s actually kinda crazy. It’s become so big. Like you get messages from people in Russia, and they don’t write Norwegian, the write Russian. And to me thats just symbols, like “dsjo dsjo dsjo”, and I like don’t understand it, and just write question mark and a heart. So it’s kinda like that. It’s cool.
Cengiz: Yeah, it’s been a really big transition. That I have to underline. It’s been really tough for me. It’s been really tough. It was like a quick change, and suddenly you get these looks like, how do you act considerate. You don’t want to come off as cocky or mean, you want to smile, but when someone serves you looks should you, I mean you know she looks at you, you can see it, and do you look back and smile or should you just walk like a normal person? If you walk normally you can be perceived as a cocky type, but, I don’t know, its kinda… its kinda… it was really hard to be considerate, and it’s still really hard to be quite honest. Like he says you get a lot of messages and you want to answer everybody but you don’t have the time to. And if you answer they send a new message back and if you answer that they send a new one, right? And it is annoying, you have to be honest and say that, if you get ten messages, or a hundred or whatever it turns into, you don’t have a private life anymore (omg he sounded so hurt here:/) and that’s something you have to be honest and say. But it is really nice! Because you know they send messages because they like you and then I want to come back with something, but then I try to communicate via my Instagram pictures. You understand? So I try to show the fans that I love them for loving me and that it’s them putting me where I am. So I don’t want to come off as mean at all, and I’m really not. So if anyone wants to meet me here now, of course I’ll speak with them. That’s no stress. That is only nice. So yeah. That’s what I’ve got to say.
Simo: Me? Well it’s not to much to add. It is shocking. I didn’t know it would be like this, you know. From 250 followers to yeah, 10,000. But like Mutta said before you get a lot of messages in languages you don’t understand and its not that great to leave them unseen, so usually I answer with emojis like this (*palms together*). I don’t know if that’s rude or not, but it’s better then nothing. But I feel like for them they feel that I give them something. For them its something important, the work we do. And that we really, WE really appreciate all the love and yeah support we get.
Yousef: yeah, I’m kinda spaced (with reality) when it comes to social media. Cuz everything happens behind a screen, so it’s difficult to answer because you can’t satisfy everybody. But I try to respond to serious approaches to the best of my abilities. So yeah, that really. But it hasn’t really dawned on me yet, that it’s people from all over the world watching (mumbles something).
Adam: It’s like they said, totally crazy. And often I open messages, and like Mutta, I press heart. That’s what’s fastest to write. And then they’re like “OMG you answered” and I’m really lying in bed and having nothing else to do. It’s not like I … I’m like “are you seriously that happy?” I’m on my phone all the time, like. But it’s really really nice and fun and I wish I could answer everybody, but you can’t. And there’s one more thing I wanted to say in reference to fans from all over the world, like I said I do music, in Norwegian, and many people go like “awesome song. I don’t understand what you say, but it’s really cool.” And I released a new music video a while back and the top comment with most likes is ”I don’t understand a single word but this is the best song ever.” But it is really really fun and nice.
Q: Kosegruppa dk wonders: What is it like to work together with Iman?
Cengiz: *Repeats the question* I can put it like this: we were a lot alike. We laugh all the time, mess around like hell, and were not afraid to touch each other, there doesn’t need to be limits to touching, but that we know. She’s a very good lady, or girl. And really fun to work with, and easy to get to know, and so am I, so we clicked pretty fast, and thats what was important to me, who was completely new this season and was supposed to take on that role and had never done acting before and I knew already from the beginning that I was supposed to kiss Josefine and I was really stressed about that. And i spoke with her (Iman) about how I should do all that and she helped me through all of it and it was her getting sad right so… That was really strange. I was thinking okay so now I’m in the acting world, and it’s actually just like this. It’s fake, all of it, you play it real. There was a time where my girlfriend came to me and said “this is really sad to say Cengiz, but I got really jealous when I watched you in that one scene, and you have to be allowed to do it but I think it’s kinda sad, but you have to hear that you (act like you’re really) in love and it’s really good. Because all the fans believe in it.” But it wasn’t easy either. It was harder playing emotional scenes with Iman than playing the kissing scene, actually, because it’s about looking this person in the eyes, and it’s Iman and you’re like what the fuck am I looking at, you know! It’s been like ten minute staring contests without laughing, but its that moment when you started to laugh it became sweet, you know. Julie just gets it, she knows what to do, like, so it wasn’t so hard to play it either. Because Julie got it, she pressed, she played us really, tricked Iman and me into playing a romantic scene in a fun way so it became romantic on screen. It was fun then and there, my god. But it is really easy to act with her, at least, she’s really talented and really positive all the time, all the time yes. I’ve never seen her mad or anything. Yeah, really fun all the time. The whole team. Thank you to the whole team for being there for me and supporting me, I was totally lost, like I’m kissing Josefine, fuck, and the first time I met her I just (was like) “hi.” And in my mind I was like “I’m kissing you later” like in front of camera. Not before or after, it’s so strange you don’t get to try before either, because then it’s wrong because it’s private, but in front of the camera it’s not private and then you can do it, that’s like, I think it was weird, but everyone on the team helped me a lot with it, so that I really appreciate.
Q: same question for Simo.
Simo: Iman, Sana that is, I got the part because she and I had a brother and sister connection when I auditioned. That’s why I got the part. But I can be honest and say that at the beginning of the season it was quite scary, to put it that way. Because it’s something unfamiliar for me, I had never thought to do this my whole life, but behind the camera she got me to forget that, forgot the stress, helped me make it. And in many scenes, amongst others, the swing set scene, I actually forgot that we were in front of the camera and that we, that I wasn’t actually sitting there talking to my biological sister. So the connection I feel like I have with Sana, or Iman. Iman, sorry, that I feel is quite real. Like when we’re behind or in front of the camera.
(They start taking questions from the audience)
Q: Yousef, when you made the movie in s3 did you know that you would be in season 4?
Yousef: No. Then I was just an extra. But I think maybe it had something to do with the chemistry I had with Even/Henrik. And maybe Julie thought it would be cool to bring him back again. That was a while ago now. Yeah, so I didn’t know that I was joining.
(lots of mumbling because people are afraid to ask)
Q: I have two questions. 1: what episode is your favourite? 2: Who is Julian Dahl in Skam?
(all the guys immediately ask Håkon what the question was)
Adam: That’s hard. But I have to say the balloon scene. Some clips or pictures of us with the balloons (were already leaked) and we were already marked as the balloon squad before the season was released. And all my friends wondered to. When is it coming, when is it coming. And when it did arrive, I was hidden behind all the balloons, but it was very funny when that clip came out. And then social media ran off. And that was fun. And then the next one was, who’s Julian Dahl?
(lots of suggestions from the audience)
Yousef: I’m sorry to tell you that I’ve never watched Skam.
(everybody laughing)
Yousef: I saw season 2 during a night marathon. And I watch this season, I have to, but favourite episode… I say the balloon scene. I don’t know who julian dahl is.
Cengiz: Favourite scene? That really has to be the scene that was most challenging for me, because it was, and that was episode 9. because because
(audience interrupts. “What scene?”)
Cengiz: What scene… It’s the last date. It’s because of the challenge, and I love that. Because we got the sсript four hours before. And taped it til 0145 in the night and we sat there freezing really, and I forgot my lines and I could get out of character because Yousef was supposed to say a lot, and it had to be literal (as written in the sсript), because it was a lot of facts, you know, so then Cengiz couldn’t just toss in some bits here and there. Maybe he could be (??? this boy talks so fast y’all) when he said it, but that you couldn’t see. It had to be word by word. And you got the sсript four hours before. And that’s what was really fun with Skam, it was really flexible. You weren’t supposed to get the sсript a week prior, because then you just memorized it and didn’t get to show what you wanted to bring to the character. And that’s why that was my favourite scene. Because it was really challenging, and it was actually one of the…. It came out sweet, plain and simple. It was. It was some, you kinda don’t get to know if they’re together yet, or, they’re just one date, like, they’re good and that’s what you get to know. And that’s challenging, yeah. That’s what i have to say, and i don’t know about Julian Dahl.
Mutasim: Favourite scene? I’m on board with “fy faen” at the tram station, when we walked, that was quite cool. But. And that talk Elias had with Sana. That was quite sweet and yeah that was pretty good I think. Julian Dahl maybe you should answer *hands mic to Håkon*
Håkon: I’m Julian Dahl. No, best scene is the one you haven’t seen yet. I think now in this season it’s been several scenes in Skam history, with characters and story and music that goes up in a higher unity. And the Fy Faen clip with you guys, is like a crazy example of that, when (we?) realized it had 300,000 streams and now it’s passed 20 million. When I saw that I was jumping in my chair because it was so amazing to see how the use of music in a film, tv series, … and now it’s also been with “Jeg håper du har plass” with S´Cezinando and that scene where it’s kinda a story where it’s like Sana is pressed so far down, Julie has pressed her, she’s in such a bad place, it’s almost not possible to feel worse, and then the release comes with that Cezinando song, I think that was, that’s art. And I also think the music in the last scene with you (to Cengiz) on the docks in Oslo is great.
*gives the mic away* *audience interupts* “Julian Dahl???!”
Q: I would like to hear what you guys do when you’re not acting in skam. I would like to hear from some of you, and if you plan to be actors in the future or is it just for now, what are your plans.
Mutasim: I used to play football and then I became injured and now I’m training to get back. And if I want to keep acting? Yes of course I would like to. And I would like to study, so…
Cengiz: Yeah. I haven’t been acting before at all. I danced a lot. Played football for eight years but decided to give that up. That was kinda tough decision for me, because boys play football and they’re not supposed to dance in Drammen where I come from. It was a tough decision for me then and there, but I chose to go all in for dancing and that turned out really well. I love to dance. I like to show my feelings for dancing without speaking for example, so that the audience sees what I’m bringing. And that I would like to keep doing. I will keep doing that because we’re making a dance video soon, or we’re doing it now, we’re on it, because there’s a lot of people wanting to see that. After Skam I have a project that I can’t say anything about, plain and simple. And i feel like i have a responsibility towards 200,000 fans and to influence them or inspire them in a positive way and then I want to use my creativity and what I’m inspired by to motivate them in a positive way to do something positive, plain and simple. And that I’ll do within my dancing and by posting pictures with meaning like a project I just did called antisocial where I got the idea from my sweater where it said antisocial and it went really well. People didn’t get the message until the last picture and then they got what the whole thing was about. So being creative is what I really want to do and express myself through several channels within tv, dancing, marketing, project management and I have a really high self esteem in a positive way so I’m really open for everything. So I feel like I can do most anything.
Simo: well, I’ve completed high school, or like you call it “gymnaset”, is that correct? Luckily. I work. I do child care and youth work. That’s my education and I would really like to study more in college. And about acting, if I get another offer I wouldn’t refuse it. I feel really comfortable on set, in front of the camera, so we’ll see what the future holds.
Yousef: yeah, so I’m still in high school. I’ll actually go (???) And I’ve danced for six years. Breakdance. But I’m not that active on that front anymore, because I’m really kind of tired from it. I don’t have any really exciting plans for the future, other than take what I can get. And I read a bit and I’m interested in astronomy. And yeah. That’s it really.
Adam: Yes, like I’ve tried to bring to the front as much as possible today, I think I’ve said it two times already, I’m an artist. I got my diploma from high school two days ago, so now I’m fiiiinally done with school. So now I can, and shall, go 100% in on my music, and go for the music, and make a lot of music, so that’s really the plan, I don’t have a job or other school I attend at the moment. Mom and dad aren’t too happy about that, but I’ll show them with my music.
Q: Whats your favourite line that you said?
Cengiz: Favourite line. There’s been a lot, or some of those improvs, because it’s been really natural. But now I have to be completely honest and say that I don’t remember because it’s been a lot of lines. But really I like the conversations between Yousef and Sana in the last episode. Or in this season it’s probably lots of other Yousef lines in the other episodes, but right now I don’t remember unfortunately. But for now it’s really that season, or that episode, that’s it.
Simo: I think, on my part, my favourite line is when i sat on the swings with Sana and said “What’s more important, to walk around saying you believe in Allah or living like you believe in Allah?”
Yousef: I don’t have any lines. So i think the favourite is the only one and thats like “Let Sana try” or something.
Adam: I think the line I have is the one right after that. Sana should toss Elias´ socks into the lamp “just when Snoop Dog says smoke weed every day”
Q: What do you think this season means for young people in Norway, or Scandinavia?
Lots of danish
Håkon: I think it is really positive both for minority youth and majority youth. Like we spoke of earlier, it brings a more nuanced picture, and that the world isn’t so black and white as you can get the impression of through media and comment sections in the tabloids. So I think it’s a really important season, and personally maybe the season I’m most proud of. That Julie went for Sana’s story, it could have been five other characters. Five other directions, but she did it. She had the guts for it. And it was originally an area she knew very little about, so it’s an enormous amount of work behind this season and an enormous amount of research. And it feels very right this season. So I think it will be standing. I hope so.
And lastly while I have the floor, I just want to thank the Danish Skam fans, you guys, it feels like the heart of Skam has moved from Oslo to Denmark. Once it was a Norwegian show, but now it’s become at least half Danish, it’s enormous what that Kosegruppa and others have made happen, both today and at other times. It feels like there’s a heatwave coming from Denmark every single week and that means (so) much to the entire crew. Stuff is coming all the time to our door, cupcakes are coming, and ?? And it was a delegation there during Easter, and you’re quite crazy, it’s like Skam is a band you’re fans of. But it’s great you’re the best in the world at analyzing Skam. I think you guys have understood more of Skam than anyone else. You’re cool. Congratulations to you and thank you so much.
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