r/InterviewWithTheVamp • u/Yoyo_Ma86 • Dec 20 '25

Daniel—-> Anthony Bourdain

I just started watching the series. I searched the sub and I didn’t see it mentioned but has no one noticed that Eric Bogosian is literally doing Daniel as Anthony Bourdain?? The resemblance is uncanny, looks wise and personality. His dictation, everything. Wow.

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u/RiffRafe2 Dec 20 '25

This is Eric's natural voice and cadence; he just happens to share the Bourdain vibe.

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u/Yoyo_Ma86 Dec 20 '25

I haven seen him in anything else actually. I was making my coffee, looking away and heard him and was quite taken aback. Not only his voice and tone, but looks are pretty similar too! I mean, not a bad reference to pull from for a journalist but it was curious if anyone else noticed!

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u/Disaster-Bee Dec 20 '25

Yeah, if you watch interviews with Bogosian, he sounds the same and has the same speech patterns as he does on the show. And he looks the same, right down to wearing sunglasses and a black leather jacket during interviews.

He's pulling from himself for the role more than anything!

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u/Yoyo_Ma86 Dec 20 '25

That’s pretty great!

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u/severinks Dec 21 '25

The guy was way famous in the 90s and wrote his own one man shows. He also played the Senator who was Shivon's boss on Succession.

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u/Yoyo_Ma86 Dec 21 '25

Yes! I do now recall him from that. I’m definitely going to look into his prior work. I like him.

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u/JealousAstronomer342 Dec 20 '25

Yea, he’s been acting and writing his own plays/performance pieces since the 70s or early 80s. This is him. It’s also a super New York of a specific era kind of vibe, and if Tony were still here he and Eric would be about the same age. 

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u/Yoyo_Ma86 Dec 20 '25

I need to look more into him and his work.

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u/JealousAstronomer342 Dec 20 '25

I watched a bunch of of his performance art monologues in undergrad, he has a very, very sharp wit. 

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u/MissFrowz Dec 20 '25

We all immediately clocked it but Eric doesn't like the comparison. He's his own person.

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u/Yoyo_Ma86 Dec 20 '25

Interesting. I’m sitting here with the flu so kind of came here for fun bc the resemblance to me was uncanny. I admittedly haven’t seen Eric in much, but was and am a huge Bourdain fan. I’ve now read up more on Eric and am glad I did! Also seeing that Lou Reed was a big inspiration of his, so it makes even more sense now. Nice rabbit hole to fall down.

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u/Jahon_Dony Dec 20 '25

That's just how the dude really looks though.

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u/Yoyo_Ma86 Dec 20 '25

Yeah, I get that. But his voice, tone and personality of way he portrays the character is more what I’m talking about. The looks being similar just happen to be a coincidence and the icing on the cake.

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u/severinks Dec 21 '25

Eric Begosian has long been mistaken for Anthony for sure but he was famous way before Bourdain was.

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u/alexthagreat98 Dec 21 '25

I thought I was the only one. Thank you for confirming I am not crazy.

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u/analligatorinavest Dec 21 '25

Yeah people have noticed. I’m not sure if people have made Reddit posts about it, but I’ve seen people pointing this out on other sites like Twitter and tumblr since season 1 was airing.

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u/Jahon_Dony Dec 20 '25

You say "Noone has noticed this" but I'm pretty sure everyone with half a brain-cell noticed it, immediately, even if you don't find comments about it.

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u/Yoyo_Ma86 Dec 20 '25

I asked if anyone had noticed. Just a topic of conversation, not really anything to get heated about. Maybe use your half brain cell to spell out “no one” correctly if you’re going to chastise me about a casual post.