This is a very important point. What we saw on TV was a guy traveling to interesting places and eating interesting things with interesting people. What he experienced was probably similar to what we experience in our work-a-day worlds: meetings, reshoots, arguments about what to do, waiting around for the right conditions, hurrying through when everything is finally just right, the hassles of getting through airports, jetlag, etc.
Getting a few minutes of good footage most likely required hours of drudgery. I suppose he had enough money that he could have lived the life of a true epicurean without all the hassles, but then he would have had to give up the limelight.
Maybe that choice was too difficult for him to make.
In the hours before news broke of Anthony Bourdain‘s apparent suicide, his girlfriend Asia Argento was active on social media.
The 42-year-old Italian actress shared videos and photos on her Instagram story throughout the day on Thursday, including one with the Rome geotag, seemingly indicating she was not in the same country as Bourdain at the time of his death. The host of CNN’s Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, who was 61, was found unresponsive in his hotel room in France on Friday morning by close friend and French chef, Eric Ripert, according to CNN. Both were filming an upcoming episode of Bourdain’s award-winning show.
Argento’s recent Instagram story, posted around three hours before Bourdain’s death was first reported, was a photo of herself wearing a ripped t-shirt that read: “F— EVERYONE.”
“You know who you are,” she captioned the post.
Argento’s Instagram story has since been deleted.
https://people.com/food/asia-argento-cryptic-message-before-anthony-bourdain-suicide/