Matt Johnson & Dominic Sessa Break Down TONY & Their Most Iconic Scenes
The director and star of TONY sit down to talk building the film from Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential, shooting on location in Provincetown, and the "layered heads" technique that makes every Matt Johnson movie feel so immersive. Plus, they break down scenes from BlackBerry and The Holdovers, and dig into the throughline of delusional ambition running through Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie.
TONY is out now in theaters, go see it.
Chapters:
0:00 – Cold Open
0:29 – intro
1:24 – Pulling scenes from Kitchen Confidential
2:08 – Getting the real stories from Larry Luster
2:54 – Best restaurant in Provincetown
3:15 – Writing dialogue only after casting the actor
3:38 – The line that defines the movie
4:42 – Matt's "next to Dom's feet" directing style
5:31 – Letting actors run long takes without cutting
6:07 – Why Matt’s movies feel so immersive
6:50 – The "layered heads" technique explained
8:22 – Leo Woodall becoming a Boston guy
9:05 – The punch scene with Antonio Banderas
9:42 – Most P-Town thing that happened off-camera
11:06 – The Yellow Deli
12:04 – Learning the real New England seafood culture
12:42 – Getting drunk, karaoke at the Colony Tap
14:07 – BlackBerry scene: "Where the vampires hang out"
16:23 – Casting Glenn Howerton and his ability to rage
17:23 – Making 1975 Provincetown feel lived-in
18:52 – The Nirvanna the Band The Show fireworks scene
20:10 – The Holdovers
20:56 – Alexander Payne's "90% of the role" theory
22:33 – "I make movies with people I like"
24:10 – The throughline of delusional ambition (BlackBerry, Nirvanna, TONY)
25:32 – Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
26:23 – Matt hiding inside his own films / "The joke is on you"
27:08 – Go see TONY in theaters
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