Antonio Banderas recently told the truth about the next tony Film, based on the life of Anthony Bourdain.
The Spanish actor reveals his experience playing a mentor in the Matt Johnson-directed biopic while speaking at the Turin Film Festival over the weekend.
“We spent a month and a half filming in Cape Cod and Newport, constantly surrounded by the smell of fish,” the actor joked. Zorro Mask star.
Antonio mentioned that every time he returned to the hotel he had to take a shower because he stank of fish.
“I was cleaning fish every day!” the 65-year-old man confessed.
Curiously, the upcoming biographical film reflects on the life of the chef turned globetrotter.
Outlaw The actor recalls that after finishing college, “Anthony originally wanted to be a writer, but almost immediately began struggling with depression and drug addiction.”
For this reason, the film “explores the very difficult first years of his life,” he notes.
Antonio, who plays a Brazilian-born restaurateur and takes young Tony, played by Dominic Sessa, under his wing in the new film.
“Through this relationship, Tony begins to really learn how to cook,” says the little girl actor.
Antonio points out that the film “is not just about cooking or culinary techniques; it is about his life, his identity and his way of being shaped by this unique mentor.”
During the festival, the actor gives details about his character in the film.
“My character studied in the best institutions, graduated from the best gastronomy schools, but he was always an outsider,” continues the spy children actor.
Antonio adds: “He created his own restaurant outside the traditional world of elite chefs, developing his own dishes with ingredients accessible to ordinary communities: simple food for ordinary people.”
