The filmmaker says he had an "A.I. model" of Bourdain's voice created to depict the deceased chef 'reading' from his own email.

There’s a set of norms that people are grappling with in regard to this statement from the director of the Bourdain documentary. They’re asking questions around consent, right? Who consents to someone taking your voice and using it? In this case, the voiceover of a private email. And what if that was something that, if the person was alive, they might not have wanted.