TV-watching Netherlands breathes a sigh of relief: Ruud de Wild and Olcay Gulsen absolutely do not want to make a sequel to their flop soap. “I’m sorry, especially seeing how hurt you are.”
Ruud de Wild and Olcay Gulsen will turn a black page in their professional lives the day after tomorrow. Then the last episode of their flop soap Ruud & Olcay broadcast on NPO 1. The last seven minutes will be completely filled with a kind of therapy session, in which the two talk about how badly they have been bashd.
Checked for impact
Ruud in particular appears to be very busy with all the reactions that have come up. “I quite misjudged the impact.”
Olcay: “You have to keep two things apart: the making of this series and the reactions of the media to the series. I think that’s clouding it a bit now.”
Ruud: “I found it very embarrassing to talk about myself. What touched you the most?”
Olcay: “I have to say: you and I are very different in that, because I have received a lot of sweet reactions from people and people who also said: ‘It has touched me or it has helped me.’”
‘I’m sorry’
Ruud points to the criticism that almost nothing happened in the soap. “We were boring too.”
Olcay: “I am also proud to be boring.”
Then she remarks, “I do regret doing it, especially seeing how badly it hurt you. I’m here fairly unscathed, because nine times out of ten I didn’t get the things that were said. And if I did get them, I really don’t care.”
Damaged bird
She is surprised that reactions from outside have such an influence on Ruud. “Then you are that tough guy, that raw kind of rock and roll-guy, who sits here all damaged like a damaged bird.”
Ruud: “That is not too bad. Do you think that?”
Olcay: “Yes, if you lose sleep over this, then you are damaged. I mean that very sweetly.”
No season two
There will be no sequel. Olcay: “Maybe a bit of a crazy question, but there will be no season two?”
Ruud: “I had a conversation at PowNed this week and then the television director said: ‘One thing, there will be no season two!’ And then I had to chuckle a little and then I thought: oh, well, it’s nice of you to say it, because I was still very much in doubt.”
Olcay: “I think we should be proud of the fact that we did it. It’s pretty vulnerable to yourself… Look at what’s coming at you. I did not expect that. I expected it to be intense, but I did not expect that there would be some kind of tables and talk shows filled with people who were going to think something about it.”
Which talk show opinion hit the hardest? Gerard Joling’s, about Ruud looking ‘unsavory’. He is therefore, also in that final episode of Ruud & Olcay, completely rotten scolded.