‘I’ll stop you right now, won’t I’: Before his death, Bernard Tapie didn’t want his Netflix series to see the light of day.

‘I’ll stop you right now, won’t I’: Before his death, Bernard Tapie didn’t want his Netflix series to see the light of day.

A businessman, but also a minister, president of a football club, actor, singer and even a TV presenter… Bernard Tapp’s life was a real one-man band, long considered the epitome of success in French, but with various trials. ruined the image of the media forever.

So it’s hardly surprising that the life of Bernard Tapp has inspired a Netflix series, although this new production by Tristan Seguela is not strictly speaking a biopic, but rather a study of Tapp’s “character” from real and authentic facts.

In an interview with our colleagues from Inter France, the director also revealed that he mentioned the existence of this project a few months before the death of Bernard Tapie on October 3, 2021 from cancer. “I’ll stop you now, isn’t it” The former businessman immediately responded to the son of advertising executive Jacques Seguela.

But if he felt it necessary to inform Tapie about the existence of this project, Tristan Seguela was still not going to ask permission to make a series about his life. With or without his agreement, the program would see the light of day starring Laurent Lafitte.

“I knew him especially as a child, he was my father’s friend, so I told him, at least you owed me that.” He explained in an interview with us. “He told me he was against it. To which I replied that it didn’t matter to me because I was entitled to it, and that somehow, if there’s one thing that inspires him, it’s not to listen to him. Anyone who refuses him.”

The death of Bernard Tapp did not calm things down, because the children and relatives of the “Boss” publicly and repeatedly criticized the existence of the project. But according to Tristan Seguela, some of his family members still plan to watch the series to discover the portrait of the former OM president.

The Tapie miniseries is now only available on Netflix.

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Source: Allocine

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