Tapie is Netflix’s new event series, looking back on thirty years of the businessman’s career with Laurent Laffite (who spoke of his physical metamorphosis for the role) in the title role. Big mouth to whom everything seems to succeed, Bernard Tapie was an omnipresent personality on TV sets in the early 1980s.
Regularly guest on shows such as 7 out of 7, Champs Elysées or even… Gym Tonicthe businessman was finally offered a show in 1986, entitled Ambitions. In this program, named Achievements in the Netflix series, the presenter helped a young entrepreneur to set up his business with the help of a jury, atmosphere Who wants to be my partner? with the rhinestones.
But the program will end after just one year of broadcast. At the end of the 1990s, Bernard Tapie experienced a sort of comeback in the media despite his legal troubles. After having been a presenter on RMC d’Hello Bernarda show in which the host answered questions from listeners, we found him in 2000 in Nothing to hide on RTL9, a talk show which looks back on the career of a personality, before he returns to TF1. So from September 2002 and for one season, he will present a new debate show, to say the least muscular, Right or wrong…
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Tapie (Netflix): when the businessman was filming with Claude Lelouch and Ophélie Winter
If this program is the last one Bernard Tapie hosted, the former president of Olympique de Marseille is not going to leave the small screen, but in a new role. So in 2001, he became an actor, and starred in a TV film with a dark atmosphere entitled Cazas on TF1. A first experience which will give ideas to TF1. Thus, the height of irony, the private channel decides to entrust him with the costume of a police commissioner in a new series of its Thursday police box: Commissioner Valencia. A fiction with a fairly classic outline, which nevertheless went so far as to attract more than 9 million viewers between 2003 and 2008. But television will not be the first to see the acting potential of Bernard Tapie. In 1995, Claude Lelouch gave him the role of a… businessman (original!) in Men, women: instructions for use, film also starring Fabrice Luchini (who made revelations about a rant by the businessman) which will give rise to the famous rumor of a relationship between the new actor and Ophélie Winter, with whom he shares the poster.
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Tapie (Netflix): when the politician wanted to become Louis de Funès.
A man with multiple projects, the early 2000s will also be an opportunity for the jack-of-all-trades to take to the stage, with some success. Hailed for his performance in the stage adaptation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 2000, he followed up notably with Oscar (a piece that became cult thanks to Louis de Funès) in 2008 alongside his daughter Sophie, then in 2011 with Roller coasters by Eric Assous. In short, a career as diverse as that of an entrepreneur, to which we should not forget his short musical career with his single released in 1998 as a duet with Doc Gynéco Life is Beautifuland especially the famous Passport to the sunwhich aficionados of the Netflix series should bring up to date…
