Leo Woodall and Emilia Jones have joined the cast of ‘Tony’, the upcoming biopic about Anthony Bourdain.
Leo Woodall and Emilia Jones have joined the cast of ‘Tony’.
The ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’ actor and the ‘CODA’ star have landed undisclosed roles in A24’s upcoming biopic of late chef and writer Anthony Bourdain, who will be played by the previously-announced Dominic Sessa.
The project is shrouded in secrecy but sources told Deadline that Todd Bartels and Lou Howe have set the film in the summer of 1976, when a young Anthony has a live-changing summer in Provincetown.
Matt Johnson is directing the movie, which will also feature Antonio Banderas.
Production on ‘Tony’ is set to begin later this month.
Anthony tragically took his own life in 2018 at the age of 61.
And earlier this year, his assistant Laurie Woolever shared details of their final conversation and text messages, which centres around an upcoming National Enquirer report about his girlfriend Asia Argento’s alleged infidelity before making plans for the future.
Writing in her new memoir ‘Care and Feeding’, Woolever explained: “When I asked Tony what he’d like me to do about the Enquirer, he said, ‘Ignore it, and ignore any similar queries from other pubs. But let me know when the Enquirer piece drops.’
“A [‘Parts Unknown]’ producer Helen had heard that things were apparently tense on set in France, and everyone was walking the tightrope, trying to give him both the emotional support he seemed to need and the space to process his pain with a measure of private dignity.
“The next day, Tony asked me to schedule a number of things for him — a lunch, a haircut, a doctor appointment, a private session with his jiu-jitsu trainer — for the week after his return to New York.
” ‘I hope you’re doing OK,’ I texted to him, and when he responded, ‘I’ll live, and we’ll survive,’ I assumed that the ‘we’ meant him and Asia, their complicated relationship.”
However, despite his plans for the future, Anthony left Woolever shocked and distraught when he took his own life.
She wrote: “At 4:25 the next morning, my phone vibrated on the windowsill next to my bed, waking me from a light sleep. It was Kim, Tony’s agent. When I answered the call, she said, ‘Tony has taken his life.’ “
Leo Woodall and Emilia Jones join Anthony Bourdain biopic Tony
