Despite being just 23, Dominic Sessa is perhaps as intimately acquainted with the 1970s as those who grew up then. “I think the only way to do the film honestly and without hesitation was to not have a strong opinion about him.” View image in fullscreen Sessa as Anthony Bourdain in Tony. Reading about the way Tony described his time in Provincetown, I was like: ‘Yeah, I get that. “Playing Tony, I felt as if I was playing an unlikable side of myself,” he says, his tone no longer flippant.