please welcome mandy patinkin. ( cheers and applause ) mandy. good to see you again. back. wonderful to have you here. >> good to be here. >> stephen: and even-- even better to have you here to have your beard back. it's so-- ( cheers and applause ) so lovely. >> it just brings me along wherever it goes. >> stephen: you know, you didn't have one for about a year, right? you took it off. >> i did. i took it off the minute i finished shooting. >> stephen: okay-- >> because i feel younger. >> stephen: really? >> without it. >> stephen: don't get me wrong. you've got, as my people say, a lovely little puttum there. >> thank you. >> stephen: the fact that the beard is back lets moo know that "homeland" cannot be far away. the new season starts october 5. ( cheers and applause ) did you know that the show was going to be less frightening than reality? ( laughter ) because the world has gone mad. the world has gone crazy since the last time you guys were on the air. >> yes. >> stephen: what is that like as an artist? >> sad. >> stephen: uh-huh. >> a bit overwhelming at times

that was mandy patinkin. >> yes, it was. >> you said that happens a lot. >> a lot of people say i lovedic turn, doesn't it? >> yes. but then it ends up complicated at the end. >> yeah, don't give -- >> tell us about the premise of this movie. >> the premise, well, it is based on a rather antiquated, but still very popular french real estate law where you can sell your apartment to someone rather inexpensively, but you don't have to move and they cannot move in until you die. they have to pay a monthly sort of inu ty. it is nice, but barbaric because the people who bought it cheap and is paying the fees is waiting for the person to die. >> that's maggie. but so i think i inherited this apartment. and there is an old lady -- i'm completely desperate and broke and alcoholic and stupid and -- >> thrice divorced. >> thrice divorced. >> not good. >> no, no. >> thrice. >> i rolled my r. thrice. i'm thrice divorced. >> this is a play originally, i understand. and you've been involved with readings of it through the years or something. attached, as they say. >> once i attached myself four or fiv

today, from the series "homeland," mandy patinkin. and abc "world news tonight" anchor david muir.and michael strahan!