This is Fresh Air.

I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross, who's off this week.

Our guest today is veteran actor F. Murray Abraham, best known recently for his role in

the second season of the hit HBO series The White Lotus, a performance that earned him

a Golden Globe nomination.

Abraham won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1985 for his role in the film Amadeus,

where he played an 18th century court composer and Vienna who resents the success of a young

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Among his many roles in TV film and theater, Abraham is known for playing a recurring character

in the Showtime series Homeland and a prominent role in the Wes Anderson film The Grand Budapest

Hotel.

Now in his 80s, F. Murray Abraham is still busy.

Besides his critically acclaimed role in The White Lotus, he recently played a writer

for a team producing a hit video game in the Apple TV Plus comedy series Mythic Quest,

and he earned an Emmy nomination doing the voice of an ancient Egyptian god in the Disney

Plus series Moon Knight drawn from Marvel Comics.

F. Murray Abraham, welcome to Fresh Air.

Thank you.

It's great to hear those things about myself.

It really is.

You know, I love a compliment, and I take all of that you said as a compliment.

Well, the idea that Marvel Comics is using my voice, I have to tell you, that was a

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