Tom Wilkinson plays the older writer who narrates the framing story in Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel.
The film uses several nested time periods and narrators. Wilkinson appears as the older version of the writer, who recounts how he learned the story of the hotel from the elderly Mr. Moustafa. Jude Law plays the writer when he is younger, while F. Murray Abraham plays the older Mr. Moustafa.
This layered casting is a frequent source of mix-ups. The narration moves from the Writer to Mr. Moustafa, then into the main 1930s story centered on M. Gustave and lobby boy Zero.
The Grand Budapest Hotel was released in 2014 and received nine Academy Award nominations. Ralph Fiennes plays M. Gustave, the hotel concierge, but he is not the older writer.