AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Anthony Bourdain's closest friends remember the man behind the legend — and say A24's new biopic gets him right
The people who knew Anthony Bourdain best say the late chef was even more compelling off-camera than on it, and that A24's new film Tony captures the man they actually knew. Eight years after Bourdain's death by suicide in France at age 61, three of his oldest friends and colleagues sat down with the New […] The post Anthony Bourdain's closest friends remember the man behind the legend — and say A24's new biopic gets him right appeared first on American Almanac .
The people who knew Anthony Bourdain best say the late chef was even more compelling off-camera than on it, and that A24's new film Tony captures the man they actually knew. Eight years after Bourdain's death by suicide in France at age 61, three of his oldest friends and colleagues sat down with the New York Post to share stories from the years before fame found him, back when the 6-foot-4 cook in ripped jeans and cowboy boots was grinding through New York City kitchens, writing crime novels nobody read, and drinking until dawn at a dive bar called Siberia. Their verdict on the biopic, directed by Matt Johnson and starring an actor known as Sessa in the title role: it works. And their memories of Bourdain himself, raw, profane, generous,…Open