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Anthony Bourdain movie filming in Mass. seeks kitchen staff with ‘dynamic personalities’
"Tony," an upcoming A24 movie about Anthony Bourdain, is seeking local restaurant employees to act as kitchen staff in the film, which begins filming in Provincetown in May.
Yes, chef: You could be a part of an A24 movie about the late chef Anthony Bourdain that begins filming in Massachusetts this spring.
“Tony,” which will star Dominic Sessa (“The Holdovers”) as a young Bourdain, will be filming in Provincetown from May through July. The film will also star Antonio Banderas (“The Mask of Zorro”) in an unspecified role, and will be directed by Matt Johnson (“Blackberry”).
Ahead of the production, Atomic Honey Casting posted an open casting call seeking “real restaurant kitchen staff with unique, dynamic personalities” to play roles in the film.
The casting call is looking for males of all ethnicities. While no prior acting experience is required, prior kitchen experience is a must.
Anthony Bourdain’s Provincetown connection
Decades before he became an award-winning chef, author, and host of multiple television shows, Bourdain spent his summers in Provincetown, learning the ropes as a dishwasher and line cook at spots like the now-closed Flagship Restaurant and the still-open Lobster Pot.
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“It was here, all the way out at the tip of Cape Cod, Provincetown, Massachusetts, where the pilgrims first landed,” Bourdain said in a 2014 episode of his CNN show ‘Parts Unknown’. “And it was where I first landed. 1972, washed in a town with a headful of orange sunshine and a few friends. Provincetown, a wonderland of tolerance, longtime tradition of accepting artists, writers, the badly behaved, the gay, the different. It was paradise.”
“Tony” will be set in the summer of 1976, Bourdain’s final summer on the Cape before enrolling in culinary school.
In the same episode of “Parts Unknown,” Bourdain credited his years in Provincetown as the deciding factor for pursuing a career as a chef.
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“I hadn’t been working for a while. I was a deadbeat,” Bourdain said. “I mean, I was, you know, scarfing off everybody else. And Nancy Poole [of the Flagship Restaurant] comes home from work and says, ‘Our dishwasher didn’t show up today. You are our new dishwasher.’ And I said, ‘Oh, really?’ And the next day I put on the apron and I didn’t take it off for 30 years.”
Read more: What Provincetown meant to Anthony Bourdain
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