SERIES MAT. The Netflix series “Tapie” with Laurent Laffite, which looks back on the life of the businessman and OM boss who died in 2021 from cancer, angered his family.
It is a project that is far from unanimous. A series dedicated to Bernard Tapie, soberly titled Tapie, is due out on September 13, 2023 on Netflix. But the first images of Laurent Laffite in the role of the former businessman and politician were shared last Friday on Instagram by the streaming platform. And as much to say that the family of Bernard Tapie, who died in 2021 following cancer, is far from approving the project, since it had not given its agreement for such a project.
On social networks, Sophie Tapie, the daughter of the former boss of Olympique de Marseille, did not hide her anger at the upcoming release of the series, and in particular the qualifier “scammer” which was used in a first time by Netflix in its promotional post on Instagram (this one was later modified): “‘ Tap the hustler ‘. Knowing that he had verbalized before his death that he was against this series… Like what disrespect has no limit”, she was irritated on her Instagram account. “It’s pathetic”, also estimated Rodolphe Tapie, his grandson, evoking the use of the qualifier “scammer” to speak of Bernard Tapie.
Sophie Tapie was also shocked that this is the series “is on the initiative of Tristan Séguéla, a family ‘friend’ of the Tapies for 40 years.” Bernard Tapie’s widow, Dominique, also told RTL last March that her husband was against the project. He had also explained, during his lifetime, in 2021 in the columns of Var Matin, that “there are things we don’t do. Borrowing my name is a bit heavy.”
Tapie is a seven-episode mini-series to watch on Netflix from September 13, 2023. It is a “free biopic” about businessman Bernard Tapie and especially his professional career, from the 1960s to 1980. In the cast, the series brings together Laurent Laffite in the title role, but also Joséphine Japy, Camille Champoux and Ophelia Kolb.