Nathan Lane creds Rob Williams for protectg him om g out as gay on natnal TV 1996.
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- NATHAN LANE: ROB WILLIAMS ‘PROTECTED ME’ FROM COMG OUT AS GAY ON ‘OPRAH’ 1996 BEE ‘HE WAS A SAT’
- ROB WILLIAMS TALKS PLAYG GAY MAN GRAPPLG WH SEXUALY ONE OF HIS FAL FILMS, BOULEVARD: “IT WAS POWERFUL TO DO”
- THE BIRDGE AT 25: A GAY EDY THAT BROKE BOUNDARI
- RT PEACE, ROB WILLIAMS, YOU WERE TLY A GAY IN
- ROB WILLIAMS PLAYS GAY FAL ON-SCREEN FILM ROLE
- 25 YEARS AGO, GAY FAI JT WEREN'T TALKED ABOUT. THEN 'THE BIRDGE' H THE SCREEN
- WATCH ROB WILLIAMS HIS FAL FILM, STARS AS A CLOSETED GAY MAN
NATHAN LANE: ROB WILLIAMS ‘PROTECTED ME’ FROM COMG OUT AS GAY ON ‘OPRAH’ 1996 BEE ‘HE WAS A SAT’
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Cast & crewUser reviewsTrivia1996R1h 57mA gay baret owner and his drag queen pann agree to put up a false straight ont so that their son n troduce them to his fiancée's right-wg moralistic parents. A gay baret owner and his drag queen pann agree to put up a false straight ont so that their son n troduce them to his fiancée's right-wg moralistic parents.
ROB WILLIAMS TALKS PLAYG GAY MAN GRAPPLG WH SEXUALY ONE OF HIS FAL FILMS, BOULEVARD: “IT WAS POWERFUL TO DO”
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THE BIRDGE AT 25: A GAY EDY THAT BROKE BOUNDARI
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Nathan Lane revealed on “Sunday Today” that Rob Williams once protected him om g out as gay agast his will on natnal televisn. The year was 1996 and Lane and Williams were on their prs tour for Mike Nichols’ “The Birdge, ” which they play a gay uple tryg to marry off their son to a nservative uple’s dghter.
RT PEACE, ROB WILLIAMS, YOU WERE TLY A GAY IN
Starrg Rob Williams, this 1996 US remake of a 1970s French farce celebrated the joy of beg gay a way that was radil, wr Ey Maskell. * robin williams movie gay *
Lane was nervo about dog an terview on “The Oprah Wey Show” as “The Birdge” was one of his first major film rol, and he did not want to e out publicly as gay at the time.
ROB WILLIAMS PLAYS GAY FAL ON-SCREEN FILM ROLE
Profsor Philip Braard (Rob Williams) is experimentg wh new kds of energy, and he thks this project will save stgglg Medfield College, where his girliend, Sara (Marcia Gay Harn), is print. But when he disvers a lively, bber-like substance dubbed "flubber," he gets so exced, he absent-mdly miss his own weddg. Sara dumps him, so he tri to e his disvery to w her back; unfortunately, the mischievo flubber seems to have a md of s own. * robin williams movie gay *
“And I certaly wasn’t ready to go om table-to-table and tell them all I was gay.
Of urse, Lane knew that playg a gay character the film would make discsg his sexualy real life “sort of unavoidable, ” but he still wasn’t ready to do so. I’m not prepared to discs that I’m gay on natnal televisn. “Now you have to make a public statement about — I was terrified… It’s great that everyone now feels fortable but homophobia is alive and well and there are plenty of gay people who are still hidg.
25 YEARS AGO, GAY FAI JT WEREN'T TALKED ABOUT. THEN 'THE BIRDGE' H THE SCREEN
In Boulevard, Williams played Nolan Mack, a married man stuck a t wh wife Joy (Kathy Baker), who realiz he’s gay and seeks the pany of a male prostute as he stggl to e to terms wh his own sexualy. “[Boulevard]’s a very betiful and sad movie about this guy who falls love wh a gay prostute, basilly out.
WATCH ROB WILLIAMS HIS FAL FILM, STARS AS A CLOSETED GAY MAN
While this is certaly not the first time Williams played gay on screen, 's certaly the most disturbg.