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7:10 a.m.: Jean-Pascal Zadi, a presidential candidate on Netflix
An educator denounces the hypocrisy of an elected official, creates a buzz and finds himself propelled as a presidential candidate: in “En Place” on Netflix, Jean-Pascal Zadi makes fun of French politics and imagines himself as the first black candidate in pass to enter the Elysée.
On paper, this comedy series is furiously reminiscent of ‘Servant of the People’, the hit series featuring Volodymyr Zelensky, an honest but naïve history teacher who happens to become President of Ukraine – before reality catches up with fiction and that the actor actually becomes head of state.
“I didn’t even know this series existed when I made ‘En Place’! “, posted on Netflix on Friday, assures Jean-Pascal Zadi, who wrote and directed it.