Despite his character's flaws, F. Murray Abraham says that playing Bert di Grasso was one of the highlights of his career. 'I would really like to go back to Sicily and shoot 'The White Lotus' all over again,' he tells TIME
Your mother is Italian. How would she convey Italy to you while you were growing up?
You’re asking the wrong man, because I’m from a blue collar background, and I have great sympathy for the working man and woman. So that was not a problem. I’m not far from Washington Square, and someone came up to me and was trying to figure out who I was. Someone else came up and said, “Don’t you know who this is? He’s the voice of Khonshu!” So that’s my claim to fame: I’m the voice of a comic character. Everything else doesn’t mean a thing. Shakespeare, no—Khonshu! Yeah, this is a special time. And I hope it doesn’t stop.More. I feel like I’m running out of time. There’s a lot to do. If I live to 100, that’s only 17 years. It ain’t enough time.
As much as I love Shakespeare and Molière and Beckett and Pinter, there’s nothing like a new script. It’s absolutely thrilling because you’re creating something where there was nothing before., two blocks from the Rio Grande. What kind of perspective did that upbringing give you about the current immigration debates?
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