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- ROB WILLIAMS TALKS PLAYG GAY MAN GRAPPLG WH SEXUALY ONE OF HIS FAL FILMS, BOULEVARD: “IT WAS POWERFUL TO DO”
- NATHAN LANE: ROB WILLIAMS ‘PROTECTED ME’ FROM COMG OUT AS GAY ON ‘OPRAH’ 1996 BEE ‘HE WAS A SAT’
- THE BIRDGE AT 25: A GAY EDY THAT BROKE BOUNDARI
ROB WILLIAMS TALKS PLAYG GAY MAN GRAPPLG WH SEXUALY ONE OF HIS FAL FILMS, BOULEVARD: “IT WAS POWERFUL TO DO”
The Birdge: Directed by Mike Nichols. Wh Rob Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne Wit. 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." data-id="ma * robin williams gay movies *
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. 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 productn, box office & pany Vios1More like thisReview Don't believe anyone who says this film is bad!
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NATHAN LANE: ROB WILLIAMS ‘PROTECTED ME’ FROM COMG OUT AS GAY ON ‘OPRAH’ 1996 BEE ‘HE WAS A SAT’
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While this is certaly not the first time Williams played gay on screen, 's certaly the most disturbg.
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.
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.
THE BIRDGE AT 25: A GAY EDY THAT BROKE BOUNDARI
Nathan Lane creds Rob Williams for protectg him om g out as gay on natnal TV 1996. * robin williams gay movies *
“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. (Image cred: Alamy)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 's hard to rist the flamboyant openg of The Birdge.
Released 25 years ago this week, Nichols' film, a remake of the 1978 French film La Cage x Foll, about a gay uple hostg an ill-fated dner party, remas remarkably relevant s edic sensibili.