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Hanging Out With Anthony Bourdain

By No Reservations Crew on February 2, 2009 11:34 AM | Permalink | 24 Comments

By Louisa Chu

Tony's driving our big black Caddy, skimming the Ike, just south of downtown Chicago. I'm lying down in the backseat, deliberately in hiding. Trying to act like it's cool. Like it's totally not uncomfortable. In every sense of the word. You must know, faithful Bourdain Crew Blog Reader, how Tony doesn't like doing the walking shots? Well apparently he doesn't like repetitious driving shots either, as evidenced by his increasingly road-rage-alicious maneuvers. Oh, and the occasional explosive swearing was a little hint, too. As I'm trying to multitask on my new iPhone, navigating prone and linked with the crew van, I'm so glad they're yukking it up over there. I can hear Chris, Diane, Alex, Kira, Erik and even my brother William, whom I recruited to drive, practically singing "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall." By the way, Chris, when you told me to duck down to get out of the shot and I dropped down to the right, I heard you say, "I wish she would have leaned the other way!" Ha. Ha. Meanwhile I desperately cling to the fine leather upholstery, trying not to get flung hard to the floor. At least I'm grateful for all the time I spent on a Deadliest Catch-esque fishing boat this summer curing myself of motion sickness.

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Venice

By No Reservations Crew on January 15, 2009 10:27 AM | Permalink | 29 Comments

By Tracey Gudwin, Producer

I have made thirty-something episodes with Anthony Bourdain. Needless to say, our crew has spent a lot of time over the last four years getting lost in the world together.

Mostly my producing job is to schedule a good show and to gently encourage Tony to see the brighter sides of really horrifically BAD situations....scenes gone wrong...situations you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy-- like the, "Birth of the Nacho" scene, in the Mexico show (lets just say it involved canned olives, some sort of gelatinous Cheese Whiz and eventually a nacho related injury); and on a darker note, being in the wrong place at the wrong time...episodes like Beirut...

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It Happened On a Street Corner in Mexico

By No Reservations Crew on January 5, 2009 10:32 AM | Permalink | 18 Comments

By Alexandra Lowry

As the newbie on the crew I knew that it would take some time to gain Anthony Bourdain's respect. No Reservations is entering it's fifth season and the man has met and worked with countless different people … and like every job that involves being accepted as "part of the team" (and no, there is no I in team) you have to earn your medal of honor, you have to gain your place in the ranks.

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The Grill of My Dreams

By No Reservations Crew on August 30, 2008 3:03 PM | Permalink | 20 Comments

By Adam Lupsha, Visual Effects Editor

When I adapt Tony's life into a screenplay it will be titled: "If You Are What You Eat, I'm Mostly Testicles, The Tony Bourdain Chronicles." I can't decide if the lead should be Johnny Depp or God (as played by Liam Neeson). I love my job, AND there's Tony Bourdain!

It's Thursday morning and as usual I'm eating my bacon, egg and cheese sandwich from the grub cart just above the subway (rubbery bacon: curiously decadent). As I sit at my desk, working on another whiz-bang special effect (like Tony eating a hotdog Matrix style), Tony comes in to talk about Washington D.C. and Labor Day. I think. It was either the show he was talking about or egg sandwiches. I was really enjoying that sandwich.

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This is How We Do It

By No Reservations Crew on August 21, 2008 3:31 PM | Permalink | 18 Comments

By Rennik Soholt, producer

So I have this damn phone stuck to my face ...

"You can't shoot THAT!" says our government minder.

"What?" I ask, through my phone.

With a dirty-toothed smile, "That, um, food cart.  There are many places that are much nicer.  Wouldn't you rather shoot there?"

"Where?" I ask with a pleasant, but deeply evil smile on my face, knowing this game like the back of my hand.

 "Um" the minder sputters "anywhere but HERE.  I was told..."

My mind starts wandering to other essentials as I look at the obviously fearful look on my poor, ABNR-virgin, cameraman's face.  I squint, look bored, half smile and reassuredly, but ever-so-slightly, nod.  Wink to Tracey.  Street scene on.  Ba-bang.

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