Series Tapie with Laurent Lafitte has just landed on the American platform Netflix this Wednesday, September 13.
The business and football tycoon but also the politician, is the subject of a series adaptation on Netflix by Tristan Séguéla and Olivier Demangel. In seven episodes, we follow Bernard Tapie over several decades through certain significant events in his life. Brilliantly played by Laurent Lafitte who had to make some physical changes, the character of Tapie is particularly ambitious and often flirts with illegality to carry out his projects. A captivating and rhythmic fiction that succeeds with flying colors in the perilous exercise of the biopic.
Tapie : what does the Netflix series say?
His beginnings in music, the meeting with his second wife Dominique (Joséphine Japy) and the birth of his children, the creation of his company “Cœur assistance”, the first takeover of a bankrupt company, the takeover of Adidas or still his years at OM with Basile Boli played by an actor from More beautiful life…so many episodes from the very rich life of Bernard Tapie which are covered in the series. His prosperous years are illustrated but also the rapid decline of the man who was even a minister for a few months until his incarceration for corruption. Between historical facts and small arrangements with the history noted by Dominique Tapie, the series offers his vision of the Tapie myth.
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Tapie : will the series have a sequel?
The series ends with his imprisonment at the end of the 90s, a real story choice. Is this a way of leaving the possibility of making a sequel? Director Tristan Séguéla and actor Laurent Lafitte are unanimous: it’s not on the program! Laurent Lafitte confided to us “It’s a mini-series but it still goes up to 1997.” Tristan Séguéla explained: “It’s not planned. You never know but it’s not planned.” The final moments of episode 7 support their statements and leave little doubt about a possible sequel. We see a set of archive images flashing by which revisit the events covered in the series as a goodbye to the man who died almost two years ago.
