Eric Ripert didn’t meet and befriend Anthony Bourdain until Tony was well into his 40s, but, in a new film, he gets to have a moment with a teenage version of his late buddy.

In the A24 biopic “Tony,” out Aug. 7, a wayward teenage Bourdain, played by Dominic Sessa, 23, works as a dishwasher and line cook one summer in Provincetown in the 1970s, falling in love with the grimy, gritty restaurant world that would become his life and work. Antonio Banderas also stars as his boss and mentor, Emila Jones is his crush, and Leo Woodall and Stavros Halkias play misfit kitchen staffers.

In the closing scene, Ripert, the acclaimed 61-year-old Le…

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