Who is Turkish film star Farah Zeynep Abdullah?

Just a few months before, Farah Zeynep Abdullah was battling sleep deprivation as she worked 22-hour shifts in Istanbul, recalling hastily memorised lines in front of a trio of cameras. During those feverish days between 2010 and 2012, she filmed 79 three-hour episodes of Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman ki (Time Goes by so Quickly).“They didn’t have regulations back then,” Farah says, bluntly. “I remember hallucinating. You’re like a robot; I was just learning my lines, working and not being able to sleep.“You can’t expect someone to work 22 hours and expect them to go home at 5am before being picked up at 7am again – it wasn’t humane. I said later on to the director that it was horrible. I would never like to go back to that.”