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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”

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

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.

THE BIRDGE AT 25: A GAY EDY THAT BROKE BOUNDARI

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.