Actor Yasser Galal managed to catch the audience’s attention during the first week of Ramadan through his role in “President’s shadow” series, where he plays “Yehia Nour Al Din”, a security officer, who left the service to become a businessman, and his wife and child get killed in front of him.
Many reasons behind the success of this character and “Arab Today” lists this reasons, where it all bagan when producer Raymond Makar from “Egypt Arts” company offered the leading role of the series to Yasser Galal, gave the idea to writer Mohammed Ismail Amin to write the script, and signed with director Ahmed Samir Farag who convinced Yasser Galal that he deserves this role as his first leading role in his career.
Yasser agreed to this role and worked on it for a long time starting from exercising, clothes, his fitness and his beard to fit with the character of a former security officer. Although Yasser had played the role of a police officer before but, this character was different and has many shifts, which made Yasser speaks with security officers to learn about them in order to present this role perfectly. He also was injured while shooting the action scenes.
Yasser also increased shooting hours since the beginning of Ramadan to finish all of the series scenes by the tenth day of Ramadan instead of the middle of the month.