Inside Anthony Bourdains bromance with Eric Ripert and his emotional cameo in new movie Tony about his pal

Eric Ripert didn’t meet and befriend Anthony Bourdain until Tony was well into his 40s, but, in a new film, he gets to have a moment with a teenage version of his late buddy.In the A24 biopic “Tony,” out Aug.

7, a wayward teenage Bourdain, played by Dominic Sessa, 23, works as a dishwasher and line cook one summer in Provincetown in the 1970s, falling in love with the grimy, gritty restaurant world that would become his life and work.Antonio Banderas also stars as his boss and mentor, Emila Jones is his crush, and Leo Woodall and Stavros Halkias play misfit kitchen staffers.In the closing scene, Ripert, the acclaimed 61-year-old Le Bernardin chef and restaurateur, has a cameo, interviewing Bourdain about why he wants to be a chef and attend the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in Hyde Park, NY.The movie “describes a different Anthony Bourdain that I didn’t know.

I’m basically accepting Tony to the Culinary Institute – it’s a defining moment in his life and his career,” Ripert told The Post.“It’s the moment he starts taking cooking seriously.” In real life, Bourdain graduated from the CIA in 1978 and went on to work in numerous New York City kitchens, including the Rainbow Room and Coco Pazzo Teatro, for decades.

In 1999, he was working as the executive chef at Les Halles in the Flatiron when the New Yorker published an essay of his — “Don’t Eat Before Reading This” — about the brutal realities and dirty secrets of restaurant kitchens.It caused a sensation and launched his career as a writer and TV host.A year later, the essay was expanded into Bourdain’s first book, “Kitchen Confidential,” a chronicle of sex, drugs, rock-and-roll and oyster shucking.Ripert first met Bourdain the same year the book came out.

He invited him to launch at Le Bernardin to thank him for his positive portrayal in the book.In the memoir, Bourdain noted he had a “never order fish on a Monday” rule — claiming that restaurants sometimes unl...