In an excerpt from ‘Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography,’ friends, family, and colleagues describe the titan of the food world’s obsessive love affair with Asia Argento.
] series we did out there with him in February 2017. It was the first time he had talked to me about Asia. He started flipping through her Instagram and he was like, “She’s trouble.” Matt [Goulding] and I were just kind of looking at each other like,The foment around her, I would say that was a noticeable change in him, and I had been working with him long enough to know that that was unusual.
MARIA BUSTILLOS: The way he was in love, and described being in love, I would have been concerned if I’d been one of his friends. And I’m not saying that in retrospect; I thought it then [in February 2018], for sure. He didn’t go for five minutes without saying, “Asia thinks this” and “Asia thinks that.” He sounded like a person who was deeply infatuated, obsessed, even, and it struck me as a vulnerability in him.
ALISON MOSSHART: It’s so strange. Tony—as Tony as he was in his work, and his actual personality, and what he’s like with his friends—everything about that guy was like a fucking dream. And then there was 5 percent of him, his psyche, that was strangely not matching with anything else. He wanted to be loved so much, but in this insatiable kind of way.
I feel terrible saying this, but there did feel like there was some sort of desperation in his voice about, somehow, if she directed, that would kind of solidify something, or they would be collaborating again, and that somehow would make his life better. MATT WALSH: She was not rude to me, but her influence on the whole thing—it was Yoko Ono in a Beatles recording session. She didn’t bring anything to the table.
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