Bernard Tapie takes center stage. The former minister will be at the heart of a new series broadcast on Netflix. The actor who will play the businessman is a French celebrity.
Bernard Tapie’s name is on everyone’s lips. The famous 78-year-old French businessman is at the heart of a book dedicated to him in Bernard Tapie, Lessons of life, death and love, published on June 10 by Les Presses de la cité by Franz-Olivier Giesbert. The former president of Olympique de Marseille will be the main subject of another work and this time on screen in Wonderman. The series created by Olivier Demangel and Tristan Séguéla and broadcast on Netflix will return, according to our colleagues from First, on his professional beginnings until the 90s, “from singer to businessman, from minister to prisoner, Bernard Tapie has known everything. Through its successes and failures, Wonderman traces the romantic fate of an extraordinary public figure“lets stretch the synopsis.
“A character from a novel“played by a resident of The French Comedy
Bernard Tapie was made aware of the creation of the fiction without his having had a say. The writers wanted to work in complete freedom. “There is also a fascination for the character, the incredibly romantic side of his entire trajectory. A character who could have come straight out of a novel by Alexandre Dumas, at the same time singer, politician, industrialist, father of a family. From his proletarian origins as the son of a worker to the final of the Champions League! Even if you don’t have the ambition to do journalistic work on your career, this trajectory is this oversized side of the character that makes him a good fictional hero “ explains Olivier Demangel.
The actor who will play Bernard Tapie is no stranger. This is Laurent Lafitte, the star of the film Small handkerchiefs. The resident of The 47-year-old Comédie Française will embody “the boss” in his younger years.
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