Get Your Ass Kicked
A featurette of the movie Tony has been released by A24. The featurette takes a look at the younger years of Anthony Bourdain, where director Matt Johnson, Dominic Sessa and Antonio Banderas outline how the young Tony needed a good “ass-kicking” to put him on the path where he would eventually become the man everyone would come to know. The first look shows how aimless he was until he fell in love with cooking and culture.
From filmmaker Matt Johnson (NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE, BLACKBERRY) comes an electric and nostalgic tale that captures the season that changed the course of Anthony Bourdain’s life. Dominic Sessa (breakout from THE HOLDOVERS) stars as a 19-year-old Bourdain who travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen. Antonio Banderas, Leo Woodall, Emilia Jones, and Stavros Halkias round out the ensemble.
Anthony Bourdain’s Estate has also released a statement on the release of this film.
“Anthony Bourdain’s legacy is meaningful to millions of people. He was a man who valued authenticity above all else and would have been both moved and baffled by the world’s curiosity about his life.
We chose to support TONY because it is not a standard biopic and doesn’t attempt to summarize a life. Guided by the vision of director Matt Johnson, the film depicts one transformative summer in 1975 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. It is an interpretation as that part of Tony’s life will always remain somewhat unknown.
We appreciate the portrayal of Tony’s complexity, his intellectual appetite and his conviction — qualities that eventually took him around the globe and endeared him to so many. We hope this film serves as a reminder that every journey has a start, and that audiences see the beginnings of the man who taught us how to be better explorers on our own paths.“
Tony on Tony
Antonio Banderas gets into the kitchen as the mentor of a young Anthony Bourdain for the biopic, Tony. Banderas talked about the unique shoot, as he walked away from production every day with a stench on him. The actor laughed, “We spent a month and a half filming in Cape Cod and Newport, constantly surrounded by the smell of fish. Every time I came back to the hotel, I had to shower because I absolutely reeked — I was cleaning fish every single day!”
Tony travels to theaters on August 21.
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