Dominic Sessa has officially transformed into the late Anthony Bourdain for A24’s highly anticipated biopic — but the actor had a few roles under his belt before being cast as the famed chef.
“I wasn’t really a big movie person, and I didn’t really watch TV,” Sessa admitted in a November 2025 interview. “I didn’t really have a strong relationship with movies, other than just the stuff that my dad would show me.”
How did he make a career in acting? It was a total accident.
As the story goes, Sessa was attending Deerfield Academy, a boarding school in Massachusetts where the 2023 movie The Holdo...
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