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The Holdovers star turns back the clock to play Anthony Bourdain.
Dominic Sessa, who stars in Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, spoke about pivoting from the Now You See Me series to the late chef’s early life at Tony’s.
“It’s kind of like an origin story in a way, in a way,” the 23-year-old told PEOPLE at the trilogy’s premiere in New York on Monday, Nov. 10, about the highly anticipated biopic.
Little information about the A24 movie has been shared since The Hollywood Reporter broke the news in August 2024, but Sessa explained that it was shot on Cape Cod, Massachusetts earlier this year.
He continued, “I’m playing Bourdain, you know, back in 1975 or ’76, when he was working there in the summer.”
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Antonio Banderas also stars as Tony, but his exact role has not been revealed. The film’s release date has not yet been confirmed.
The Parts Unknown host would have celebrated his 69th birthday on June 25th, but he passed away by suicide on June 8th, 2018.
Bourdain’s story was already told in the 2021 posthumous documentary Roadrunner: The Movie About Anthony Bourdain, but Tony will be his first biopic.
Fans will get a new perspective on the author in never-before-seen episodes of Prime Cut, a companion series to Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.
On Tuesday, October 28, CNN introduced an all-access subscription tier that gives viewers access to behind-the-scenes clips of Bourdain. Originally, hour-long episodes of Prime Cuts aired in advance of each Part Unknown season premiere, combining clips from the flagship series with commentary about Bourdain’s travels.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, after its broadcast, the Prime Cuts episode was never aired again on CNN, nor was it included on CNN+ or the CNN Max streaming library.
