Tristan Séguéla, the director of the Netflix biopic series on Bernard Tapie, recounted the heated exchange he had with the main interested party, when he announced to him the fiction project on his life…
On Sunday April 16, CANNESERIES festival-goers had the opportunity to discover Tapie, the next Netflix series which traces the life and work of the late Bernard Tapie. Long-awaited, this fictional project was built against a backdrop of controversy because the main interested party and his relatives opposed its start… which succeeded despite everything. AlloCiné was also able to watch the first two intriguing parts of this very fictionalized biopic
“Tapie” soon on Netflix
In the columns of our colleagues from the Journal du Dimanche, Tristan Séguéla (the director and co-screenwriter of Tapie) recently returned to a brief exchange he had with Bernard Tapie about this fiction in seven episodes that he was about to stage:I ran into him and told him that I wanted to do a series about him. His reaction was simple, he said to me: ‘I’ll stop you right now, it’s no!'”
“To which I replied that I had not come to ask his authorization but simply to warn him that I was going to tackle it. I could have stopped there, of course, but if there is one thing on which Tapie inspired me, it is not to limit myself to this kind of warning. He wouldn’t have taken it into account.”
The transformation of Laurent Lafitte
In the same magazine, Laurent Lafitte, who lends his features to the businessman who died in 2021, spoke behind the scenes of Tapie, focusing in particular on his physical transformation.
The resident of the Comédie-Française thus revealed: “We experimented with a lot of prostheses but it didn’t work so I opted for a more personal approach. For me, Tapie is energy. So I tried to find his speed, his ambition, his seduction…“
“My goal was to create my own version of it. There is a fairly Franco-French contrast in him. It arouses at the same time fascination, repulsion, questioning, attachment. Full of contradictions that make him a pretty amazing character.”
To discover from September 13 on Netflix.