Laurent Lafitte at the top Tapie
The Netflix biographical drama about Bernard Tapie, directed by Tristan Séguéla and starring Laurent Lafitte, is a success. If this does not have the scale of the series of German phenomena Dear little onehowever, it is very solid and competes in France first place in the Top 10 ranking. It’s that Tapieshared between real facts and pure inventionsit’s a get on and off high quality, served by a high level production, fantastic casting. And a masterful performance in the title role of the Comédie-Française’s resident actor.
At 50, the actor revealed to the general public by the film of his classmate Florent and friend Guillaume Canet The little handkerchiefs he established himself as one of the most talented figures of his generation. As ? With pure talent, hard work and investment totally right as always in the embodiment of his characters. This is how he makes the “his him” Bernard Tapie charming, with a perfectly balanced performance between them mimicry and personal interpretation. And for this role, Laurent Lafitte transformed himself physically, with a surprising result.
Tapie: This scene that was “heartbreaking” for Laurent Lafitte to shoot
Four decades and weight to gain
In an interview with Konbini, Laurent Lafitte explained how he physically became the famous and infamous French businessman. Since then a complex metamorphosis Tapie developed from the 1960s to the 1990s, with then a constantly changing physical appearance.
As he explains in detail, Laurent Lafitte built his character partly on appearance. Wigs of course, to look as much like Bernard Tapie as possible on this point, and costumes that the company director liked. Then, to get closer to Tapie’s facial features – Laurent Lafitte insists that director Tristan Séguéla and himself wanted a mix between him and Bernard Tapie -, the use of small facial prosthetics to slightly modify your features. To obtain this first appearance, it was then necessary to count between 2 and 2.5 hours of makeup per day.
Where this metamorphosis became more challenging was as the 1990s approached, where Bernard Tapie has gained weight, with advancing age. Laurent Lafitte then explains that, since the miniseries was shot essentially in chronological order, it was necessary a month’s break so that he could gain weight and approach the size of Bernard Tapie at the time. Therefore the last shooting sequences were necessary, for the final part of the series more makeup than at the beginningEven Laurent Lafitte doesn’t have enough time to gain that much weight and can’t grow old in the blink of an eye.
Source: Cine Serie
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