A24 has released the trailer for Tony, which stars Sessa, 23, as a teenage version of the celebrated American chef, writer and television host who died at 61 in 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n The trailer sees Bourdain take a job at a restaurant in Provincetown, Massachusetts, out of desperation, shortly after graduating from high school and failing to land a writing fellowship.<\/p>\n Sessa stars alongside Emilia Jones, who plays a former high school acquaintance, as well as Dagmara Domi\u0144czyk, Rich Sommer, comedian Stavros Halkias, Leo Woodall, and Antonio Banderas, who portrays the chef at the restaurant where Bourdain finds work.<\/p>\n “A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life,” reads an official synopsis for the movie.<\/p>\n Tony poster The film comes five years after the documentary Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain<\/a>, which featured archival footage from Bourdain’s life and interviews with his friends, family members and colleagues.<\/p>\n The Holdovers star Sessa described Tony as “a sort of origin story in a way<\/a>” when he spoke with PEOPLE at the premiere of Now You See Me: Now You Don’t in November 2025. \u201cI’m playing Bourdain sort of, you know \u201875, \u201876, that era, when he was working there in the summers,” he said.<\/p>\n![\"Tony](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3b83365347bafe4d1f7adfd00efe0b55.jpeg\"\/)
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