Why Dominic Sessa Needed to Play a Young, 'Miserable' Anthony Bourdain in 'Tony': 'It Changed My Life'

"I was – to be frank – a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive and thoughtless young lout, and badly in need of a good ass-kicking." These words, featured in Anthony Bourdain's autobiographical bestseller "Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly," became the skeleton key with which co-writer/director Matt Johnson unlocked the culinary icon. His new film "Tony" stars Dominic Sessa as the titular cook in a period of time before he picked up the apron - specifically, the aforementioned era when he needed to get his ass kicked (and don't . . .