The Gild Age is tellg a different story about a closeted gay man than Downton Abbey but Osr van Rhijn has a better life than Thomas Barrow.
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- IS BLAKE RSON’S OSR VAN RHIJN GAY THE GILD AGE?
- NATHAN LANE LOV CHANNELG AN “ODD LTLE MAN” ON THE GILD AGETHE TONY–WNG ACTOR ON THE SOCIETY GATEKEEPER HE PLAYS ON HBO’S NEW PERD DRAMA, HIS BROADWAY STARS, AND THE BIRDGE SEQUEL HE’S YEARNG TO MAKE. BY JULIE MILLERMARCH 11, 2022BY ALISON COHEN ROSA/HBO MAX.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAS THE LORFUL WARD MCALLISTER, NATHAN LANE CHARMS THE SOCIETY WOMEN OF THE GILD AGE WH SUCH EASE THAT YOU MIGHT MISTAKENLY ASSUME LTLE EFFORT WENT TO THE ROLE. BUT THAT FT MAND BELI THE TONY WNER’S REFUL PREPARATN FOR HIS PART ON JULIAN FELLOW’S AMERIN PERD DRAMA. IN ADDN TO SUMMONG A SAVANNAH ACCENT, LANE REARCHED THE REAL-LIFE MCALLISTER—A DISTANT RELATIVE, THROUGH MARRIAGE, OF 19TH-CENTURY SOCIETY QUEEN CAROLE ASTOR, WHO UNSOLICEDLY APPOTED HIMSELF SOCIETY’S ARBER.DURG A RECENT PHONE LL, LANE EXPLAS THAT MCALLISTER AND MRS. ASTOR “CID AMERIN SOCIETY NEED SOME GUIDANCE. THEY WANTED TO CREATE THEIR OWN ARISTOCRACY AMERI BASED ON BIRTH, BACKGROUND, AND BREEDG. WHICH IS ALSO THE WAY YOU W THE AMERIN KENNEL CLUB DOG SHOW.”MCALLISTER, A SNOB AND SOCIAL CLIMBER OF THE HIGHT ORR, AND “AN ODD LTLE MAN,” ACRDG TO LANE, IS CREDED WH G THE ELIST TERM “THE FOUR HUNDRED,” CLARG THAT ONLY 400 PEOPLE WERE QUALIFIED TO BE PART OF NEW YORK SOCIETY. “IF YOU GO OUTSI THAT NUMBER, YOU STRIKE PEOPLE WHO ARE EHER NOT AT EASE A BALLROOM OR ELSE MAKE OTHER PEOPLE NOT AT EASE,” MCALLISTER WAS ONCE QUOTED AS SAYG.EXPLAS LANE, “HE WAS OBSSED WH FOOD AND W AND PARTY GIVG, AND FACT WENT TO EUROPE FOR A UPLE OF YEARS TO STUDY HOW THE NOBILY LIVED, AND THEN BROUGHT ALL THIS RMATN BACK WH HIM. HE’S SOMEBODY WHO TURNED SOCIAL CLIMBG TO AN ART FORM. HE MARRIED THIS WOMAN, WHO WAS A WEALTHY HEIRS…AND SORT OF A SHUT-. HE HAD THREE CHILDREN, TWO SONS AND A DGHTER. SO HE WOULD HOST THE PARTI WH HIS DGHTER. IT WAS SO CREDIBLY SHALLOW, BUT THAT WAS HIS LIFE—SOCIETY, ETIQUETTE, W, FOOD, AND GOG TO BALLS.”“THEY DIDN’T HAVE NETFLIX THEN,” REASONS THE ACTOR, “SO WHAT ELSE ARE YOU GOG TO DO?”THE GILD AGE’S FIRST SEASON PTUR MCALLISTER AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS SOCIAL POWER. DURG THE RECENT EPISO “HEADS HAVE ROLLED FOR LS,” LANE PRIS OVER AN ELABORATE LUNCHEON HOSTED BY CARRIE COON’S BARELY-VEILED VANRBILT HIS HONOR. EVEN HER CHARACTER, BERTHA, WHO MERCILSLY HUNTS FOR HIGH-SOCIETY VATNS, ETS OVER THE LUNCHEON. SHE RECS A BUTLER VERSED ENGLISH SERVICE TO APPEASE MCALLISTER’S PREFERENC, WHICH HE REFULLY OUTLED HIS 1890 MEMOIR.THE PUBLITN OF SAID BOOK WAS MCALLISTER’S FATAL SOCIETY ERROR, ACRDG TO LANE.“HE MTED TWO MORTAL SS. HE WROTE A MEMOIR, SOCIETY AS I HAVE FOUND IT, WHICH HE TALKED ABOUT HIS TRAVELS THROUGH EUROPE, WHAT WAS GOG ON AMERI, AND, PARTICULAR, NEW YORK SOCIETY. HE DIDN’T NAME NAM BUT HE TOLD A LOT OF STORI, AND WAS OBV WHO THE PEOPLE WERE THAT HE WAS REFERENCG. THEY TOOK GREAT OFFENSE AT THIS, AND SHUNNED HIM. HE ALSO GAVE A LIST OF NAM TO THE NEW YORK TIM—WHICH IS WHERE HE ED THIS PHRASE THE FOUR HUNDRED, WHICH IS WHAT WOULD MAKE UP SOCIETY’S ELE. THE PEOPLE WHO WERE ON THE LIST WERE UPSET BEE THEY WERE BEG MA OUT TO BE CELEBRI, AND THEY HATED THAT. AND THEN THE PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T MAKE THE LIST WERE UPSET.”HIS ATH PROVED A SAD UNTERPOT TO HIS LIFE’S PURPOSE: “EVERYBODY KD OF TURNED ON HIM, AND HE DIED ALONE A RTRANT. MRS. ASTOR HAD A PREV DNER ENGAGEMENT AND DID NOT GO TO HIS FUNERAL.”PRODUCTN ON THE GILD AGE CID WH BROADWAY’S PANMIC SHUTDOWN. THAT MEANT THEATER’S MOST TALENTED STARS—CLUDG LANE, AUDRA MCDONALD, DENéE BENTON, KELLI O’HARA, AND CHRISTE BARANSKI—WERE AVAILABLE FOR HIRE ON THE HBO SERI, WHICH SHOT PRIMARILY NEW YORK AND RHO ISLAND.BY ALISON COHEN ROSA/HBO MAX.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYNETFLIX’S MURDGH MURRS IS OFFICIALLY RETURNG FOR SEASON 2: EXCLIVEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSON“THROW A ROCK AND YOU’LL H A TONY AWARD WNER,” SAYS LANE, SCRIBG THE SET. “IT’S LIKE BEG PART OF THE GREATT REPERTORY PANY OF NEW YORK THEATER ACTORS EVER ASSEMBLED. THERE’S TONS OF OLD IENDS OR PEOPLE YOU’VE LOVED AND ADMIRED OM AFAR.”HE SPENT THE MOST TIME WH O’HARA, THE KG AND I TONY WNER LANE HAS SUALLY KNOWN FOR YEARS, WHO PLAYS AURORA FANE. “SHE AND I BOND BEE WE HAD SO MANY SCEN TOGETHER. WE WERE ALWAYS SOMEWHERE NEWPORT. THEN WE WENT UP TO TROY. WHEREVER THERE WAS A MANSN, THEY FOUND , AND WE WOULD BE THERE.”SADLY, LANE ONLY SHARED ONE SCENE WH BARANSKI, HIS STAR OM THE BELOVED 1996 EDY THE BIRDGE—AND THE TWO DIDN’T HAVE A CHANCE TO EXCHANGE DIALOGUE.“SHE’S THE ONE I’VE KNOWN THE LONGT A WAY,” SAYS LANE, EXPLAG THAT BARANSKI HAD MENTNED THE GILD AGE TO HIM EARLY ON, BEFORE HE JOED THE PRODUCTN. “I WOULD LOVE TO GET TO DO SOME SCEN WH HER THE NEXT SEASON.”THE BIRDGE HAS BEEN ON LANE’S MD RECENTLY FOR OTHER REASONS. DURG THE PANMIC, WHEN HE WASN’T FILMG THE GILD AGE, LANE BEGAN LISTENG TO PODSTS—PARTICULARLY BEYOND THE BOX SET, THE BRISH SERI WHERE TWO FILM OBSSIV “PCH RIDICULO SEQUELS TO CLASSIC STANDALONE MOVI.” THERE WAS AN EPISO VOTED TO THE BIRDGE, AND LANE THOUGHT THAT ONE OF THE PCH WAS WORTH PURSUG.“THE STORY WAS A SMART WAY OF HONORG HIM [ROB WILLIAMS] AND THEN MOVG ON,” SAYS LANE, WHO HELPED GET THE IA OPTNED BY MGM. “IT ALT WH MY CHARACTER AND [HANK AZARIA’S CHARACTER], AGADOR. IT OPENED WH THE FUNERAL OF ROB’S CHARACTER, AND THEN MY CHARACTER WAS MOURNG, AND WOULDN’T LEAVE THE HOE, AND WOULDN’T PERFORM. AGADOR WAS NNG THE CLUB AND ENURAGG ME TO TRY TO DO SOMETHG. THEN AGADOR GETS A LL OM A WOMAN THAT HE DATED WHEN HE WAS A YOUNG MAN GUATEMALA. WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY, HE WENT TO AMERI, HE LEFT HER, AND HE DIDN’T REALIZE SHE WAS PREGNANT. SHE HADN’T TOLD HIM. SHE TELLS HIM HE HAS A DGHTER, AND SHE’S ABOUT TO GET MARRIED, AND THE DGHTER WANTS TO WALK DOWN THE AISLE WH HER REAL FATHER. AND SO HE FATS, AND THEN HE TELLS ME WHAT’S HAPPENED. AND I SAY, ‘OH, DARLG, THERE’S NOTHG MORE IMPORTANT THAN CHILDREN. YOU MT GO.’”LANE DRAWS A EP BREATH AND NTU WH THE PCH.“SO BE THIS ROAD TRIP TO GET TO GUATEMALA, WHICH HAS MANY DIFFICULTI. AND SO [AGADOR’S] PRETENDG TO BE STRAIGHT WHEN HE’S GUATEMALA, AND I WAS PRETENDG TO BE HIS MANSERVANT, WHO’S GONE ALONG TO HELP HIM AND GIVE HIM MORAL SUPPORT. AND THEN HIJKS ENSUE. BUT WAS A VERY FUNNY IA AND A FUN PAIRG OF THOSE TWO CHARACTERS.”THEN LANE RAN TO TWO ROADBLOCKS. FIRST, LANE SAYS, HANK AZARIA DID NOT FEEL FORTABLE REPRISG THE GUATEMALAN CHARACTER, PECIALLY AFTER HE AGREED TO STOP VOICG APU ON THE SIMPSONS OVER HIS NTROVERSIAL PORTRAYAL OF THE INDIAN CHARACTER, AS LANE PREVLY SUGGTED TO THE DAILY BEAST. (AZARIA HAS SCE EXPRSED HIS REMORSE FOR PLAYG THAT ROLE: “PART OF ME FEELS LIKE I NEED TO GO AROUND TO EVERY SGLE INDIAN PERSON THIS UNTRY AND PERSONALLY APOLOGIZE, AND SOMETIM I DO WHEN UP.”)MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYNETFLIX’S MURDGH MURRS IS OFFICIALLY RETURNG FOR SEASON 2: EXCLIVEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSON“HANK SAID, ‘I LOVED PLAYG THE CHARACTER, I WOULD LOVE TO DO AGA, BUT TODAY’S WORLD, WOULD NOT BE APPROPRIATE FOR ME TO PLAY AGADOR,’ WHICH WAS VERY DISAPPOTG,” EXPLAS LANE. “I UNRSTOOD WHERE HE WAS G OM, BUT ’S SUCH A BELOVED PERFORMANCE. I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT HE WOULD GET SOME SPECIAL DISPENSATN OM GUATEMALA.”LANE SAYS HE OPENED UP TO THE IA OF AGADOR BEG PLAYED BY ANOTHER ACTOR—“IT’S 25 YEARS LATER, PERHAPS HE LOOKS A LTLE DIFFERENT NOW.” BUT WHEN MGM TOOK THE SEQUEL IA TO STREAMERS, “THERE WAS NO TERT WHATSOEVER. AND ONE WAS JT SORT OF SAYG, ‘WELL, IF WE WERE GOG TO DO , WE WOULD JT REBOOT THE ORIGAL WH A NEW ST.’”“IT WAS DISAPPOTG, BEE THE IA WAS, I THOUGHT, REALLY SMART AND FUNNY,” SAYS LANE. “I DID EVERYTHG I ULD.”NOT THAT LANE HAS MUCH DOWN TIME THE DAYS. HE IS REPRISG HIS GUT ROLE ON HULU’S ONLY MURRS THE BUILDG, AS LI-CHA OWNER TURNED PODST SPONSOR TURNED MURR SPECT, TEDDY DIMAS, LIVG THE SAME BUILDG AS MART SHORT AND STEVE MART’S CHARACTERS. (“IT WAS A NO-BRAER,” SAYS LANE. “I’VE KNOWN BOTH MARTY AND STEVE FOR A VERY LONG TIME. THAT’S A VERY HAPPY SET, AND SUCH A CHARMG AND SMART SHOW.”) HE’S ALSO ALREADY GEARG UP FOR A SEND SEASON OF THE GILD AGE, WHICH IS EXPECTED TO BEG FILMG APRIL AND PRUMABLY FEATURE MCALLISTER’S NTUED REIGN OVER NEW YORK’S HIGH SOCIETY. THOUGH THE POSSIBILI ARE ENDLS, LANE DO HAVE ONE PREDICTN ABOUT SEASON TWO: “THERE WILL BE MORE DNER PARTI. I’M BETTG ON THAT.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— JERRY LEWIS’S COSTARS SPEAK OUT: “HE GRABBED ME. HE BEGAN TO FONDLE ME. I WAS DUMBSTCK”— INSI CHARLIZE THERON AND TOM HARDY’S MAD MAX WAR— INVENTG ANNA IS A “DANGERO” DISTORTN, SAYS RACHEL WILLIAMS— HOW THE GUN ALEC BALDW’S HANDS TURNED THE RT SET DEADLY— LOVE IS BLD SEASON TWO IS PEAK RED FLAG TELEVISN— PACHKO FIRST LOOK: AN EPIC TALE, AND A HISTORY-MAKG SHOW— VANY FAIR’S HOLLYWOOD ISSUE 2022: SEE THE FULL PORTFOL FEATURG NILE KIDMAN, KRISTEN STEWART, AND MORE— THE UGLY TTH OF HOW MOVIE SR ARE MA— KIRSTEN DUNST ON HER FIRST OSR NOMATN FOR THE POWER OF THE DOG— FROM THE ARCHIVE: WH FRIENDS LIKE THE— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”JULIE MILLER
IS BLAKE RSON’S OSR VAN RHIJN GAY THE GILD AGE?
If you are wonrg whether Osr is gay ‘The Gild Age, ’ we got you vered. Not for anyone wh functng gaydar.
NATHAN LANE LOV CHANNELG AN “ODD LTLE MAN” ON THE GILD AGETHE TONY–WNG ACTOR ON THE SOCIETY GATEKEEPER HE PLAYS ON HBO’S NEW PERD DRAMA, HIS BROADWAY STARS, AND THE BIRDGE SEQUEL HE’S YEARNG TO MAKE. BY JULIE MILLERMARCH 11, 2022BY ALISON COHEN ROSA/HBO MAX.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAS THE LORFUL WARD MCALLISTER, NATHAN LANE CHARMS THE SOCIETY WOMEN OF THE GILD AGE WH SUCH EASE THAT YOU MIGHT MISTAKENLY ASSUME LTLE EFFORT WENT TO THE ROLE. BUT THAT FT MAND BELI THE TONY WNER’S REFUL PREPARATN FOR HIS PART ON JULIAN FELLOW’S AMERIN PERD DRAMA. IN ADDN TO SUMMONG A SAVANNAH ACCENT, LANE REARCHED THE REAL-LIFE MCALLISTER—A DISTANT RELATIVE, THROUGH MARRIAGE, OF 19TH-CENTURY SOCIETY QUEEN CAROLE ASTOR, WHO UNSOLICEDLY APPOTED HIMSELF SOCIETY’S ARBER.DURG A RECENT PHONE LL, LANE EXPLAS THAT MCALLISTER AND MRS. ASTOR “CID AMERIN SOCIETY NEED SOME GUIDANCE. THEY WANTED TO CREATE THEIR OWN ARISTOCRACY AMERI BASED ON BIRTH, BACKGROUND, AND BREEDG. WHICH IS ALSO THE WAY YOU W THE AMERIN KENNEL CLUB DOG SHOW.”MCALLISTER, A SNOB AND SOCIAL CLIMBER OF THE HIGHT ORR, AND “AN ODD LTLE MAN,” ACRDG TO LANE, IS CREDED WH G THE ELIST TERM “THE FOUR HUNDRED,” CLARG THAT ONLY 400 PEOPLE WERE QUALIFIED TO BE PART OF NEW YORK SOCIETY. “IF YOU GO OUTSI THAT NUMBER, YOU STRIKE PEOPLE WHO ARE EHER NOT AT EASE A BALLROOM OR ELSE MAKE OTHER PEOPLE NOT AT EASE,” MCALLISTER WAS ONCE QUOTED AS SAYG.EXPLAS LANE, “HE WAS OBSSED WH FOOD AND W AND PARTY GIVG, AND FACT WENT TO EUROPE FOR A UPLE OF YEARS TO STUDY HOW THE NOBILY LIVED, AND THEN BROUGHT ALL THIS RMATN BACK WH HIM. HE’S SOMEBODY WHO TURNED SOCIAL CLIMBG TO AN ART FORM. HE MARRIED THIS WOMAN, WHO WAS A WEALTHY HEIRS…AND SORT OF A SHUT-. HE HAD THREE CHILDREN, TWO SONS AND A DGHTER. SO HE WOULD HOST THE PARTI WH HIS DGHTER. IT WAS SO CREDIBLY SHALLOW, BUT THAT WAS HIS LIFE—SOCIETY, ETIQUETTE, W, FOOD, AND GOG TO BALLS.”“THEY DIDN’T HAVE NETFLIX THEN,” REASONS THE ACTOR, “SO WHAT ELSE ARE YOU GOG TO DO?”THE GILD AGE’S FIRST SEASON PTUR MCALLISTER AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS SOCIAL POWER. DURG THE RECENT EPISO “HEADS HAVE ROLLED FOR LS,” LANE PRIS OVER AN ELABORATE LUNCHEON HOSTED BY CARRIE COON’S BARELY-VEILED VANRBILT HIS HONOR. EVEN HER CHARACTER, BERTHA, WHO MERCILSLY HUNTS FOR HIGH-SOCIETY VATNS, ETS OVER THE LUNCHEON. SHE RECS A BUTLER VERSED ENGLISH SERVICE TO APPEASE MCALLISTER’S PREFERENC, WHICH HE REFULLY OUTLED HIS 1890 MEMOIR.THE PUBLITN OF SAID BOOK WAS MCALLISTER’S FATAL SOCIETY ERROR, ACRDG TO LANE.“HE MTED TWO MORTAL SS. HE WROTE A MEMOIR, SOCIETY AS I HAVE FOUND IT, WHICH HE TALKED ABOUT HIS TRAVELS THROUGH EUROPE, WHAT WAS GOG ON AMERI, AND, PARTICULAR, NEW YORK SOCIETY. HE DIDN’T NAME NAM BUT HE TOLD A LOT OF STORI, AND WAS OBV WHO THE PEOPLE WERE THAT HE WAS REFERENCG. THEY TOOK GREAT OFFENSE AT THIS, AND SHUNNED HIM. HE ALSO GAVE A LIST OF NAM TO THE NEW YORK TIM—WHICH IS WHERE HE ED THIS PHRASE THE FOUR HUNDRED, WHICH IS WHAT WOULD MAKE UP SOCIETY’S ELE. THE PEOPLE WHO WERE ON THE LIST WERE UPSET BEE THEY WERE BEG MA OUT TO BE CELEBRI, AND THEY HATED THAT. AND THEN THE PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T MAKE THE LIST WERE UPSET.”HIS ATH PROVED A SAD UNTERPOT TO HIS LIFE’S PURPOSE: “EVERYBODY KD OF TURNED ON HIM, AND HE DIED ALONE A RTRANT. MRS. ASTOR HAD A PREV DNER ENGAGEMENT AND DID NOT GO TO HIS FUNERAL.”PRODUCTN ON THE GILD AGE CID WH BROADWAY’S PANMIC SHUTDOWN. THAT MEANT THEATER’S MOST TALENTED STARS—CLUDG LANE, AUDRA MCDONALD, DENéE BENTON, KELLI O’HARA, AND CHRISTE BARANSKI—WERE AVAILABLE FOR HIRE ON THE HBO SERI, WHICH SHOT PRIMARILY NEW YORK AND RHO ISLAND.BY ALISON COHEN ROSA/HBO MAX.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYNETFLIX’S MURDGH MURRS IS OFFICIALLY RETURNG FOR SEASON 2: EXCLIVEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSON“THROW A ROCK AND YOU’LL H A TONY AWARD WNER,” SAYS LANE, SCRIBG THE SET. “IT’S LIKE BEG PART OF THE GREATT REPERTORY PANY OF NEW YORK THEATER ACTORS EVER ASSEMBLED. THERE’S TONS OF OLD IENDS OR PEOPLE YOU’VE LOVED AND ADMIRED OM AFAR.”HE SPENT THE MOST TIME WH O’HARA, THE KG AND I TONY WNER LANE HAS SUALLY KNOWN FOR YEARS, WHO PLAYS AURORA FANE. “SHE AND I BOND BEE WE HAD SO MANY SCEN TOGETHER. WE WERE ALWAYS SOMEWHERE NEWPORT. THEN WE WENT UP TO TROY. WHEREVER THERE WAS A MANSN, THEY FOUND , AND WE WOULD BE THERE.”SADLY, LANE ONLY SHARED ONE SCENE WH BARANSKI, HIS STAR OM THE BELOVED 1996 EDY THE BIRDGE—AND THE TWO DIDN’T HAVE A CHANCE TO EXCHANGE DIALOGUE.“SHE’S THE ONE I’VE KNOWN THE LONGT A WAY,” SAYS LANE, EXPLAG THAT BARANSKI HAD MENTNED THE GILD AGE TO HIM EARLY ON, BEFORE HE JOED THE PRODUCTN. “I WOULD LOVE TO GET TO DO SOME SCEN WH HER THE NEXT SEASON.”THE BIRDGE HAS BEEN ON LANE’S MD RECENTLY FOR OTHER REASONS. DURG THE PANMIC, WHEN HE WASN’T FILMG THE GILD AGE, LANE BEGAN LISTENG TO PODSTS—PARTICULARLY BEYOND THE BOX SET, THE BRISH SERI WHERE TWO FILM OBSSIV “PCH RIDICULO SEQUELS TO CLASSIC STANDALONE MOVI.” THERE WAS AN EPISO VOTED TO THE BIRDGE, AND LANE THOUGHT THAT ONE OF THE PCH WAS WORTH PURSUG.“THE STORY WAS A SMART WAY OF HONORG HIM [ROB WILLIAMS] AND THEN MOVG ON,” SAYS LANE, WHO HELPED GET THE IA OPTNED BY MGM. “IT ALT WH MY CHARACTER AND [HANK AZARIA’S CHARACTER], AGADOR. IT OPENED WH THE FUNERAL OF ROB’S CHARACTER, AND THEN MY CHARACTER WAS MOURNG, AND WOULDN’T LEAVE THE HOE, AND WOULDN’T PERFORM. AGADOR WAS NNG THE CLUB AND ENURAGG ME TO TRY TO DO SOMETHG. THEN AGADOR GETS A LL OM A WOMAN THAT HE DATED WHEN HE WAS A YOUNG MAN GUATEMALA. WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY, HE WENT TO AMERI, HE LEFT HER, AND HE DIDN’T REALIZE SHE WAS PREGNANT. SHE HADN’T TOLD HIM. SHE TELLS HIM HE HAS A DGHTER, AND SHE’S ABOUT TO GET MARRIED, AND THE DGHTER WANTS TO WALK DOWN THE AISLE WH HER REAL FATHER. AND SO HE FATS, AND THEN HE TELLS ME WHAT’S HAPPENED. AND I SAY, ‘OH, DARLG, THERE’S NOTHG MORE IMPORTANT THAN CHILDREN. YOU MT GO.’”LANE DRAWS A EP BREATH AND NTU WH THE PCH.“SO BE THIS ROAD TRIP TO GET TO GUATEMALA, WHICH HAS MANY DIFFICULTI. AND SO [AGADOR’S] PRETENDG TO BE STRAIGHT WHEN HE’S GUATEMALA, AND I WAS PRETENDG TO BE HIS MANSERVANT, WHO’S GONE ALONG TO HELP HIM AND GIVE HIM MORAL SUPPORT. AND THEN HIJKS ENSUE. BUT WAS A VERY FUNNY IA AND A FUN PAIRG OF THOSE TWO CHARACTERS.”THEN LANE RAN TO TWO ROADBLOCKS. FIRST, LANE SAYS, HANK AZARIA DID NOT FEEL FORTABLE REPRISG THE GUATEMALAN CHARACTER, PECIALLY AFTER HE AGREED TO STOP VOICG APU ON THE SIMPSONS OVER HIS NTROVERSIAL PORTRAYAL OF THE INDIAN CHARACTER, AS LANE PREVLY SUGGTED TO THE DAILY BEAST. (AZARIA HAS SCE EXPRSED HIS REMORSE FOR PLAYG THAT ROLE: “PART OF ME FEELS LIKE I NEED TO GO AROUND TO EVERY SGLE INDIAN PERSON THIS UNTRY AND PERSONALLY APOLOGIZE, AND SOMETIM I DO WHEN UP.”)MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYNETFLIX’S MURDGH MURRS IS OFFICIALLY RETURNG FOR SEASON 2: EXCLIVEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSON“HANK SAID, ‘I LOVED PLAYG THE CHARACTER, I WOULD LOVE TO DO AGA, BUT TODAY’S WORLD, WOULD NOT BE APPROPRIATE FOR ME TO PLAY AGADOR,’ WHICH WAS VERY DISAPPOTG,” EXPLAS LANE. “I UNRSTOOD WHERE HE WAS G OM, BUT ’S SUCH A BELOVED PERFORMANCE. I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT HE WOULD GET SOME SPECIAL DISPENSATN OM GUATEMALA.”LANE SAYS HE OPENED UP TO THE IA OF AGADOR BEG PLAYED BY ANOTHER ACTOR—“IT’S 25 YEARS LATER, PERHAPS HE LOOKS A LTLE DIFFERENT NOW.” BUT WHEN MGM TOOK THE SEQUEL IA TO STREAMERS, “THERE WAS NO TERT WHATSOEVER. AND ONE WAS JT SORT OF SAYG, ‘WELL, IF WE WERE GOG TO DO , WE WOULD JT REBOOT THE ORIGAL WH A NEW ST.’”“IT WAS DISAPPOTG, BEE THE IA WAS, I THOUGHT, REALLY SMART AND FUNNY,” SAYS LANE. “I DID EVERYTHG I ULD.”NOT THAT LANE HAS MUCH DOWN TIME THE DAYS. HE IS REPRISG HIS GUT ROLE ON HULU’S ONLY MURRS THE BUILDG, AS LI-CHA OWNER TURNED PODST SPONSOR TURNED MURR SPECT, TEDDY DIMAS, LIVG THE SAME BUILDG AS MART SHORT AND STEVE MART’S CHARACTERS. (“IT WAS A NO-BRAER,” SAYS LANE. “I’VE KNOWN BOTH MARTY AND STEVE FOR A VERY LONG TIME. THAT’S A VERY HAPPY SET, AND SUCH A CHARMG AND SMART SHOW.”) HE’S ALSO ALREADY GEARG UP FOR A SEND SEASON OF THE GILD AGE, WHICH IS EXPECTED TO BEG FILMG APRIL AND PRUMABLY FEATURE MCALLISTER’S NTUED REIGN OVER NEW YORK’S HIGH SOCIETY. THOUGH THE POSSIBILI ARE ENDLS, LANE DO HAVE ONE PREDICTN ABOUT SEASON TWO: “THERE WILL BE MORE DNER PARTI. I’M BETTG ON THAT.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— JERRY LEWIS’S COSTARS SPEAK OUT: “HE GRABBED ME. HE BEGAN TO FONDLE ME. I WAS DUMBSTCK”— INSI CHARLIZE THERON AND TOM HARDY’S MAD MAX WAR— INVENTG ANNA IS A “DANGERO” DISTORTN, SAYS RACHEL WILLIAMS— HOW THE GUN ALEC BALDW’S HANDS TURNED THE RT SET DEADLY— LOVE IS BLD SEASON TWO IS PEAK RED FLAG TELEVISN— PACHKO FIRST LOOK: AN EPIC TALE, AND A HISTORY-MAKG SHOW— VANY FAIR’S HOLLYWOOD ISSUE 2022: SEE THE FULL PORTFOL FEATURG NILE KIDMAN, KRISTEN STEWART, AND MORE— THE UGLY TTH OF HOW MOVIE SR ARE MA— KIRSTEN DUNST ON HER FIRST OSR NOMATN FOR THE POWER OF THE DOG— FROM THE ARCHIVE: WH FRIENDS LIKE THE— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”JULIE MILLER
“If you look back through history, as we did, you fd exampl of gay men and women that existed and were out, so to speak, wh their homosexualy, ” Crockett says.