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Ben O'Shea: Tony - The Director Gave This Movie A Bit Too Much Cheese · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Grabbed the Popcorn. The flick with bedow Shade. Good Morning Band,
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  Speaker 1: Good Morning. The great late Anthony Bourdain, who was taken
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  Speaker 1: from us in twenty eighteen. He took his own life
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  Speaker 1: after a long career as a as a chef, then
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  Speaker 1: a celebrity chef, then an author, and then of course
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  Speaker 1: a TV host his sort of food based travel shows.
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  Speaker 1: He was such a unique legend because he had this
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  Speaker 1: way of talking about food and meeting people and talking
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  Speaker 1: about life. The story to storytelling was just absolutely amazing,
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  Speaker 1: and he had this ability to really kind of get
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  Speaker 1: to the heart of the human condition in a way
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  Speaker 1: that I think all and he was flawed. He was flawed,
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  Speaker 1: and he never shied away from that that he was.
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  Speaker 1: He was kind of this interesting balance of hubris, which
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of great chefs have, but also
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  Speaker 1: that self deprecation and insecurity and recognizing that he had faults. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't perfect, and in many ways he was perfect
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  Speaker 1: for that. And and we all saw a bit of
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  Speaker 1: ourselves in him, and we live vicariously through all of
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  Speaker 1: his travels minus the cooking skill. Minus the cooking I
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  Speaker 1: wish I saw a bit of myself in the kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: but he also found a way to bring food to
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  Speaker 1: the you know, down to the common level. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just about Michelin starred food. It was also about you know,
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  Speaker 1: a grilled cheese sandwich guy. And he loved his passion
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  Speaker 1: for what he was trying in a different place and
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  Speaker 1: trying different things, and that had to be unique, unique
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  Speaker 1: and had to be authentic, and it had to be worthwhile,
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  Speaker 1: worth your time. Right. So so when he did, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when he did take his own life, I think a
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  Speaker 1: lot of his fans were just like gutted. They were
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  Speaker 1: so it was it was hard to take because he
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  Speaker 1: loved life so much and so exactly exactly. So that's
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  Speaker 1: why I think there's a lot of interest around this biopic,
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  Speaker 1: which stars Dominic Sssa, who people who saw The Holdovers
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  Speaker 1: will remember he was the main kid in that, in
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  Speaker 1: that sort of coming up age movie. Great movie, and
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  Speaker 1: he was amazing in that in a breakthrough role. So
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  Speaker 1: now he's taking a step up and playing Anthony Bourdain,
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  Speaker 1: and the film focuses on just one summer of Bourdain's life.
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  Speaker 1: When he was a college kid, he dreamed of being
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  Speaker 1: an author, famous author. He didn't get this fellowship, and
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  Speaker 1: so he kind of ran away from home, chased this girl.
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  Speaker 1: It's a Cape cod kind of like a holiday destination
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  Speaker 1: in America. And then when his kind of romantic hopes
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  Speaker 1: were dashed because she had this other boyfriend at the time,
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  Speaker 1: He's gone, oh, how can I hang around in this
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  Speaker 1: holiday town. I'm just going to get a job as
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  Speaker 1: a dish pig at a fish and chips joint. And
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  Speaker 1: so it was in this one summer that he really
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  Speaker 1: kind of confirmed this love of food and this desire
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  Speaker 1: to be a chef, not because you know, he really
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed the cooking so much, but because these other chefs
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  Speaker 1: around him just seemed so punk rock. He was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, like one of the other young chefs,
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  Speaker 1: you know, sort of took it upon himself to try
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  Speaker 1: and you know, sort of woo every young lady that
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  Speaker 1: came into the restaurant. Even hooked up with a bride
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  Speaker 1: at her wedding dinner at the restaurant, and this happened.
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  Speaker 1: This happened in real life to Anthony Bourdaine, and in
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  Speaker 1: his book Kitchen Confidential, he says, that was the moment
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  Speaker 1: where I thought I need to become a chef. And
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  Speaker 1: the head chef of this restaurant was played by Antonio Banderis,
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  Speaker 1: who is kind of like the classic kind of tough
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  Speaker 1: but fair chef who he doesn't tolerate any incompetence in
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen, but you can tell he has a deep
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  Speaker 1: affection for young Tony as he goes by in this film. Tony,
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  Speaker 1: He's not a real character in real life, so it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like a mix of a bunch of chefs
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  Speaker 1: that inspired a young Anthony Bourdain. And so the big
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  Speaker 1: question for me watching this movie is I tried to
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  Speaker 1: think would Anthony Bordain himself have liked it? And I
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  Speaker 1: think probably ultimately not, But that's only because, like I
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  Speaker 1: think Anthony probably wouldn't have felt that he was worthy
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  Speaker 1: of a biopic in the first place. He'd be like,
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  Speaker 1: like especially concentrating on that I'm just a dude who
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  Speaker 1: cooks food, Like why would you try and to steal
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  Speaker 1: my whole life into this one couple of months period.
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  Speaker 1: But I think if you take that out of it,
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  Speaker 1: like I think he genuinely would have been so impressed
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  Speaker 1: with Dominiccess's performance, and he is so good as a
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  Speaker 1: young Anthony Bourdain. He's got that kind of punk rock
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  Speaker 1: vibe also has those insecurities, the fake it till you
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  Speaker 1: make it vibe, which he does so well. Antonio Banderiz
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  Speaker 1: is also great for me. Maybe a little bit too
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  Speaker 1: much like a mister Miyagi. It's kind of it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of a bit like a paint the fence and if
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, it's beautiful as well. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you saw the film BlackBerry, that film
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  Speaker 1: about the origin story of the BlackBerry. So same director.
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  Speaker 1: That's a really good film, so he knows what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe a bit of style over substance. And if
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  Speaker 1: this film was a recipe, I think the director maybe
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  Speaker 1: added a bit too much cheese. Too much cheese. How
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  Speaker 1: many Michelin stars mic drop three and a half. Definitely
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  Speaker 1: for the an any bordained fans, you've got to watch it.
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  Speaker 1: Those Dominice staff Michelin stars. That's that's a good meal.
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  Speaker 1: Go back for seconds.