Like many documentaries, the slotxo film is a collection of archival footage. including interviews and performances to try to tell the story in their own words.
There are also words that Bourdain never said to the camera before his 2018 suicide death, but you'll hear him say it.
In an interview with The New Yorker, film director Morgan Neville said there were three words he wanted Bourdain to tell an
unrecorded tale. So he recreated those words using software instead. “I built an AI model of his voice,” he told the magazine.