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F. Murray Abraham on shooting ‘Scarface,’ and how he works on his memory

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02.12.2025

F. Murray Abraham is soon-to-be unemployed from his soon-to-be unemployed Broadway musical “Queen of Versailles.”

Abraham told me: “While making ‘Scarface’ I got another movie role at the same time. I flew from Hollywood to Prague to shoot both at the same time. I’d study flying one way then the other script the way back. Four times.

“You may even see same gestures from those two back-to-back films — but you have to look carefully.

“I’m now in the American Theater Hall of Fame and my first job was playing Santa Claus at Macy’s and I had to say ‘Merry Christmas’ in different languages. I spoke Spanish.

“Being from El Paso........

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