On September 13, 2023 will be released a highly anticipated series on Netflix. It is carpet, directed by Tristan Séguéla and Olivier Demangel. The main role of the businessman and French deputy who died on October 3, 2021 will be performed by Laurent Lafitte. Appeared regularly in the theater and in many successful films like The little handkerchiefs Or The origin of the world, the actor of the French Comedy is not at his trial run. Yet each role requires special preparation and focus. This one was a real “challenge” for Laurent Lafitte, as he confided Thursday August 31, 2023 in the columns of the magazine She. If he noticed that there was “some resemblance” with Bernard Tapie when he wore a wig, he specified that he had not wanted to “spend hours recreating his voice and gestures”. The comedian, on the other hand, clarified that he wanted to reproduce some characteristic features of the former president of OM. “The important thing was to transmit his energy, his power of seduction and persuasion”, did he declare. He got involved as much as possible. “to tell a character born on TV, that[‘il] loved[t] much child”.
What does Sophie Tapie, daughter of Bernard Tapie, think of the series?
For its part, the family of Bernard Tapie is not particularly cheerful by the release of this series. Quite the contrary. Sophie Tapie, her daughter, came out of silence in the story of her Instagram account on Friday April 14, 2023 to rebel against this production. “Knowing that he had verbalized before his death that he was against this series… Like what disrespect has no limit. I am all the more shocked that the series is at the initiative of Tristan Séguélaa ‘friendly’ family of the Tapies for 40 years…”, she wrote, pissed off. In an interview with Nice morning on June 22, 2021, Bernard Tapie had indeed explained that he was not in favor of it. “He’s a friend’s son. Doing it without asking me for my agreement in principle is not very good. There are things we don’t do. That there are documentaries is another thing, but borrowing my name is a bit heavy”he regretted.