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A24 has unveiled nan first trailer for Tony, its biopic of cook Anthony Bourdain starring The Holdovers breakout Dominic Sessa, which is slated for merchandise successful theaters successful August.
Directed by Matt Johnson, nan filmmaker down Blackberry and Nirvanna nan Band nan Show nan Movie, Tony finds a 19-year-old Bourdain (Sessa) walking to Provincetown, Massachusetts, wherever he stumbles into nan chaotic world of a edifice kitchen, for a play that will alteration nan people of his life.
The trailer opens pinch Bourdain successful his assemblage days. “Okay, truthful I’m conscionable going to locomotion you done nan basal vision,” he says. “It’s a coming-of-age story.”
At a bar, Bourdain catches up pinch a woman he knew from precocious school, played by Emilia Jones.
“Didn’t you punch a spread successful nan principal’s door?” she asks.
He assures her, though, that “a lot’s changed since precocious school. I’m a writer now. The truth is, I’m astir to get this immense penning fellowship.”
Of course, he doesn’t get that fellowship aft all, and doesn’t woody pinch nan news well, punching a spread successful nan wall, getting thrown retired of a bar, and landing passed retired successful nan street.
It’s past that Bourdain heads to Provincetown, wherever he originates moving nether a cook played by Antonio Banderas.
“We unfastened Wednesday to Sunday. Start 11:00 a.m. That intends you are present astatine 10:45,” Banderas says. “11:00 is late. Anyone precocious is fired.”
After we spot Bourdain bickering pinch his co-workers successful nan room and getting successful a conflict pinch others, Jones’ characteristic asks him, “Are you a bully feline aliases a bad guy?” — and Banderas teaches Sessa’s Bourdain really to unfastened an oyster.
“I ate these successful France erstwhile I was a kid,” Bourdain says. “I said they sensation for illustration nan future.”
While things get disconnected to a rocky commencement successful Provincetown for nan famously hot-tempered Bourdain, nan young culinary prodigy of people finds his measurement toward earning his apron, opening to play a larger domiciled successful decision-making wrong Banderas’ kitchen.
“[What] we’re going to commencement pinch is simply a special,” he says. “Every Friday, thing fancy, not pretentious. Something sexy, makes you want to f*ck. Something only you tin do.”
The trailer culminates successful Bourdain accepting his imaginative destiny, saying, “If anybody asks, I’m not a writer. I activity successful a kitchen.”
Written by Johnson and Matthew Miller, Todd Bartels and Lou Howe, Tony also stars Dagmara Dominczyk, Rich Sommers, Stavros Halkias, and Leo Woodall. Producers connected nan task included Tim White, Trevor White, Miller, and Johnson. Check retired nan trailer by clicking above.
