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’
- ROBBIE WILLIAMS SAYS HE ED TO INTIFY AS ‘SOMEWHAT GAY’ BUT ‘JT N’T DO THE CK’
- ROB WILLIAMS TALKS PLAYG GAY MAN GRAPPLG WH SEXUALY ONE OF HIS FAL FILMS, BOULEVARD: “IT WAS POWERFUL TO DO”
- RT PEACE, ROB WILLIAMS, YOU WERE TLY A GAY IN
- ROB WILLIAMS QUTNS GAY MOURS
- ROB WILLIAMS: 'I'M NOT GAY'
NATHAN LANE: ROB WILLIAMS ‘PROTECTED ME’ FROM COMG OUT AS GAY ON ‘OPRAH’ 1996 BEE ‘HE WAS A SAT’
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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.
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.
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“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 TALKS PLAYG GAY MAN GRAPPLG WH SEXUALY ONE OF HIS FAL FILMS, BOULEVARD: “IT WAS POWERFUL TO DO”
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“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.
While he nied mours about beg gay, he had no qualms about discsg the sexualy of his pet pug.
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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.
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 ?
ROB WILLIAMS QUTNS GAY MOURS
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.
ROB WILLIAMS: 'I'M NOT GAY'
He said: “[It’s] a guy who falls love wh a gay prostute, basilly out.