Anthony Bourdain Biopic has found that major man at Dominixessa.
The 22-year-old New Jersey native, who made his big screen debut in the acclaimed 2023 drama The Holdovers, was tapped to play the famous chef who died of suicide in 2018.
The film, entitled “Tony,” will chronicle the early beginnings of Bulldain in Provincetown, Massachusetts in the mid-1970s, Deadline reported Wednesday. Production is scheduled to begin next month.
Oscar nominee Antonio Banderas is an unrevealed role and has also been attached to the film's star.
“Blackberry” director Matt Johnson will lead the A24 project written by Todd Bartels and Lou Howe.
Set next to the star of the drama “Tow” at the 2025 Tribecafe Stability in June, Sessa has been a rumoured choice to portray Bourdain since last year. For his breakout role in “The Holdovers,” the actor won the Critics Choice Film Award for Best Young Performer and earned a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor for his support role.
Bourdain lived an incredible life in the food world as a well-known chef, writer and television host. The Culinary Institute of America alumni was executive chef at Brasserieless Hall in New York before making his name for his 2000 memoir, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.
The New York City native, the winner of eight Emmy Awards for his CNN travel show “Parts Unknown,” was discovered at the age of 61 for self-inflict hanging from a hotel room in northeastern France.
