“I’ll stop you now, won’t I!” : Bernard Tapp’s strong objection to his biography for Netflix

On Sunday, April 16th, attendees at the CANNESERIES festival had the opportunity to discover Tapie, the next Netflix series depicting the life and work of the late Bernard Tapie. Long awaited, this fictional project was built amidst controversy as the main stakeholder and his cronies opposed its launch… which despite everything, succeeded. AlloCiné was also able to watch the first two intriguing parts of this highly fictional biopic

“Tapie” coming soon to Netflix

In the columns of our colleagues at Journal du Dimanche, Tristan Seguela (Tap’s director and co-writer) recently returned to the brief conversations he had with Bernard Tapis about this seven-episode fiction he was planning to stage:I bumped into him and told him that I wanted to do a serial on him. His reaction was simple, he told me: I’ll stop you right now, won’t I!

“To which I replied that I had not come to ask for his authorization, but merely to warn him that I was going to deal with it. I could, of course, stop there, but if there’s one thing Tappy has inspired me to do, it’s not to limit myself to such caveats. He wouldn’t consider it.”

The transformation of Laurent Lafitte

In the same magazine, Laurent Lafitte, who attributes his qualities to the deceased businessman in 2021, spoke behind the scenes of Tapi, especially about his physical transformation.

The Comédie-Française resident revealed:We experimented with a lot of prosthetics, but it didn’t work, so I chose a more personal approach. Tapi is energy for me. So I tried to find his speed, his ambition, his seductive…“

“My goal was to create my own version of it. There is quite a Franco-French contrast in it. It evokes admiration, repulsion, questioning, attachment at the same time. Full of contradictions, which makes him quite an amazing character.”

The Discovery from September 13 on Netflix.