After starring in the 1996 queer classic, The Birdcage, star Nathan Lane says his on-screen partner Robin Williams helped him avoid the pressures of coming out as gay following the film’s release, even when the heat was coming from Oprah.
, his co-star assured Lane he would not have to take this step on the show.. “We won’t talk about it.’”But sure enough, when the two sat down for the show, Oprah was ready to talk about Lane’s personal life in relation to the role . Lane says Williams “sort of swoops in and diverts Oprah, goes off on a tangent and protects me because he was a saint.
Lane gives Oprah the benefit of the doubt, saying she probably did not intend to put Lane in the hot seat. The next year, the daytime TV giant would help a peer, Ellen, publicly come out on her show in 1997.
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