Nathan Lane: Rob Williams Protected Me From Comg Out as Gay - Variety

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• NATHAN LANE: ROB WILLIAMS ‘PROTECTED ME’ FROM COMG OUT AS GAY ON ‘OPRAH’ 1996 BEE ‘HE WAS A SAT’
• RT PEACE, ROB WILLIAMS, YOU WERE TLY A GAY IN
• ROBBIE WILLIAMS SAYS HE ED TO INTIFY AS ‘SOMEWHAT GAY’ BUT ‘JT N’T DO THE CK’
• ROB WILLIAMS: 'I'M NOT GAY'
• ROB WILLIAMS QUTNS GAY MOURS
• ¿ROBBIE WILLIAMS GAY?
• ROB WILLIAMS TALKS PLAYG GAY MAN GRAPPLG WH SEXUALY ONE OF HIS FAL FILMS, BOULEVARD: “IT WAS POWERFUL TO DO”
• NATHAN LANE RELLS HOW ROB WILLIAMS ‘PROTECTED’ HIM OM G OUT AS GAY ON OPRAH WEY’S SHOW
• 25 YEARS AGO, GAY FAI JT WEREN'T TALKED ABOUT. THEN 'THE BIRDGE' H THE SCREEN
• 4 WAYS ROB WILLIAMS CHANGED THE WAY WE THK ABOUT FEMISM AND GAY RIGHTS
• ROBBIE WILLIAMS SAYS HE ED TO INTIFY AS ‘SOMEWHAT GAY’ BUT ‘JT N’T DO THE CK’

NATHAN LANE: ROB WILLIAMS ‘PROTECTED ME’ FROM COMG OUT AS GAY ON ‘OPRAH’ 1996 BEE ‘HE WAS A SAT’

While he nied mours about beg gay, he had no qualms about discsg the sexualy of his pet pug. He said: “I also have a gay rcue pug lled Leonard. Williams worked alongsi out gay actor Harvey Fierste, who played Daniel Hillard’s brother and make-up artist Frank.

Playg the openly gay and Jewish owner of a drag baret, he nonted the issu of homophobia far before mastream media ught on.

RT PEACE, ROB WILLIAMS, YOU WERE TLY A GAY IN

He said: “If I n e my celebry stat to draw people to a movie theatre to see me perform as an admirable gay man and thereby make them a ltle most posive about gay people, why wouldn’t I do ? The Birdge follows a gay uple, whose son is marryg the dghter of an ultra-nservative Republin US senator.

Their out gay hoekeeper, Agador, tak on the persona of Spartac, a Greek straight manservant. Wily released July 2015, Williams stars as Nolan Mack, a suburban 60-year-old banker g to terms wh his homosexualy. He said: “[It’s] a guy who falls love wh a gay prostute, basilly out.

ROBBIE WILLIAMS SAYS HE ED TO INTIFY AS ‘SOMEWHAT GAY’ BUT ‘JT N’T DO THE CK’

While this is certaly not the first time Williams played gay on screen, 's certaly the most disturbg.

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. 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.

“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.

ROB WILLIAMS: 'I'M NOT GAY'

“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. In the movie The Birdge, Williams portrayed the gay dad alg wh a hetero son, as well as the owner of a drag baret and same-sex lover of s star drag queen performer.

He was the gay daddy drag Mrs.

ROB WILLIAMS QUTNS GAY MOURS

” In the hilar film, straight Daniel Hillard enlists his gay brother Frank (played by openly gay Harvey Fierste), a makp artist, and Frank’s partner Jack to transform him to Mrs. Later, Williams did an terview 1992, after beg nsired for a movie role as openly gay Supervisor Harvey Milk, and was asked whether he might be unfortable playg a gay character. “I grew up San Francis; I grew up around gay people, ” he replied.

Robbie Williams has spoken about sexualy a new terview and how he ed to inty as “somewhat gay” durg his youth. The pop sger, currently at number one the UK wh new album ‘The Heavy Entertament Show’, grac the ver of gay liftyle magaze Attu this month. Durg the terview, Williams revealed that he qutned his sexual orientatn durg his early 20s: “I was raised a society where gay was the thg you levelled at somebody you wanted to hurt the most.

¿ROBBIE WILLIAMS GAY?

So then beg exposed to this world that I loved beg a part of… I took my first ecstasy at a gay club… had the most credible time. “But also bee of the homophobia that there is out there, I was sort of left as a 21 year old gog: ‘Actually, I don’t hate the gay… so do that mean that I’m gay, too? So I was 21 or 22 and I was like: ‘Oh, that mt mean that I’m somewhat gay, some sort of way'”.

The sger went on to say: “There was a time where if you put ‘Robbie Williams’ to Google, said ‘gay’. When stopped beg: ‘Robbie Williams gay’, I wonred what had happened”.

ROB WILLIAMS TALKS PLAYG GAY MAN GRAPPLG WH SEXUALY ONE OF HIS FAL FILMS, BOULEVARD: “IT WAS POWERFUL TO DO”

“The tth is wh me and gay is that I n’t get round the ck thg, ” he add. Rob Williams is keen to nont one of the many gay men who sist they've slept wh him bee he n't rell that perd of his Williams is keen to nont one of the many gay men who sist they've slept wh him bee he n't rell that perd of his actor has always sisted he's 100% heterosexual, but many gay men are keen to 'out' explas: "There are many webs that'll go: 'Oh, he's gay - I know he's gay. '"Even our chef, who's gay, was at a gay ski lodge, and some guy me up to him and said: 'Rob Williams is gay.

"Williams sists he has never even nsired havg a homosexual enunter - even durg his dg-fuelled heyday, when bisexualy was all the rage.

NATHAN LANE RELLS HOW ROB WILLIAMS ‘PROTECTED’ HIM OM G OUT AS GAY ON OPRAH WEY’S SHOW

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25 YEARS AGO, GAY FAI JT WEREN'T TALKED ABOUT. THEN 'THE BIRDGE' H THE SCREEN

In this versn Rob Williams plays the gay owner of a Florida nightclub who learns his straight son (Dan Futterman) is g home and is engaged to be married. Williams learns om his son that his fiancée's parents (Gene Hackman, Dianne Wit) are straight-laced and ultra-nservative and will not be fortable meetg his gay father or his even more flamboyant lover (Nathan Lane) and suggts Williams send Lane out of town while Hackman and Wit are town. Hollywood star Rob Williams has sisted he isn’t gay spe several men claimg to have slept wh him.

4 WAYS ROB WILLIAMS CHANGED THE WAY WE THK ABOUT FEMISM AND GAY RIGHTS

The actor said he would like to meet the people who say he is gay bee is a part of his life which he nnot remember. He told GQ magaze he has never nsired gay enunters, “There are many webs that’ll go, ‘Oh, he’s gay, I know he’s gay.

’ Even our chef, who’s gay, was at a gay ski lodge, and some guy me up to him and said, ‘Rob Williams is gay. El ntante revela porque no se nsira pletamente gay.

El ntante nfó que no se nsira pletamente gay por un pequeño (o en algunos hombr “gran”) talle. Robbie Williams se nsira “med homosexual”. “La verdad que lo mío n lo gay que no me cido hacer lo l pene.

ROBBIE WILLIAMS SAYS HE ED TO INTIFY AS ‘SOMEWHAT GAY’ BUT ‘JT N’T DO THE CK’

El térprete “Candy” también reveló que en su etapa juventud se intifiba o “un po gay” y le gtaría ser homosexual porque los hombr son más promiscuos y el sexo siempre tá disponible. Mack his his homosexualy, but that chang when he has an enunter wh a young male prostute.