The implication of the film is that Bourdain became “addicted” to Argento in the same way he was hooked on heroin earlier in his life. It’s time for us to break up and go our separate ways.” I’m done with this, I’m done with you people. “I can’t live my life like this anymore,” he told his producers. The musician Josh Homme says Bourdain was actively searching for something “feral and wild.” His close friend Alison Mosshart, who fronts The Kills, reveals that Bourdain wrote to her in an email that he knew the relationship would “end very, very badly.”Īt a certain point, Bourdain decided he was done making Parts Unknown.

The people in his life could see that he was falling in love and developing what seemed to be a singular focus on the Italian actress.

We first meet Argento seated across from Bourdain at a small family restaurant in Rome during a scene for Parts Unknown’s eighth season finale. Bourdain’s final romantic partner dominates the last act of the documentary just as the film suggests she overtook his life near the end. But since he wasn’t sure he’d ever have the chance to do this type of television again, he went all-in on the two places he’d always wanted to visit: Japan and Vietnam.īut there is one person notably absent from the interviews: Asia Argento. Given the opportunity to make his first travel show, called A Cook’s Tour, for Food Network in the early 2000s, Bourdain could have started off with a relatively easy jaunt to Europe. It is a distant cry from the affable, engaged Bourdain who delighted viewers of his later programs, especially No Reservations and Parts Unknown. All he can think to say is, “Oh, wow, spectacular,” and keep chewing. Seated on the floor of a private room in a traditional Japanese restaurant, Bourdain silently eats his meal as the two women serving it to him nod awkwardly. Hot off the blockbuster success of Kitchen Confidential, his tell-all book about the restaurant industry, Bourdain has been granted his first shot at the type of television show that would ultimately make him a star. There’s a scene early in the new documentary Roadrunner that feels inconceivable to anyone who has spent the past couple of decades watching Anthony Bourdain travel the world.

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