The Anthony Bourdain A24 biopic “Tony” is seeking to be as genuine as attainable — and have actual cooks star alongside “The Holdovers” breakout Dominic Sessa, who’s portraying late icon Bourdain. Atomic Honey Casting posted an open casting name in search of “actual restaurant kitchen workers with distinctive, dynamic personalities” to play roles within the movie. IndieWire confirmed with A24 that the casting will happen for a shoot in Provincetown, MA from Could by July 2025.
Whereas no prior performing expertise is required for the aforementioned roles, prior kitchen expertise is a should. The casting name is in search of males of all ethnicities.
Sessa stars as a younger Bourdain within the origin story of the “Kitchen Confidential” creator and “Elements Unknown” host. Antonio Banderas co-stars in an unspecified position. “Tony” might be directed by Matt Johnson (“Blackberry”) with Todd Bartels and Lou Howe writing the script. The movie was introduced in April 2025, with Bourdain’s property producing.
“Tony” will happen throughout the summer time of 1976, which was Bourdain’s final expertise on the Cape earlier than enrolling in culinary faculty. The movie will chart Bourdain’s rise from working as a dishwasher to a line prepare dinner earlier than beginning his empire.
Bourdain died by suicide in 2018 at age 61. He posthumously was on the middle of Morgan Neville’s documentary, “Roadrunner: A Movie About Anthony Bourdain,” which included using synthetic intelligence to recreate Bourdain’s voice for the narration of three completely different sequences. “A part of the expertise of watching Tony on tv was his voice. His standpoint is what made these reveals,” director Neville stated in 2021. “And should you truly — as I’ve — take his voiceover out of the reveals, they’re very unusual and melancholic ruminations of visitations of nations around the globe. His standpoint does all the pieces to these reveals. I simply felt love to do a movie and never have his standpoint expressed can be fallacious.”
Neville additionally stated in an announcement of Bourdain’s legacy, “Anthony Bourdain did extra to assist us perceive one another than simply about anybody within the historical past of tv. He related with individuals not despite his flaws, however due to them. To have the chance to inform his story is humbling.”