'I said to Robin beforehand ... 'I'm not prepared to discuss, you know, that I'm gay on national television. I'm not ready.''
In an upcoming interview onThe Oprah Winfrey Showbut before doing so, he turned to Williams and told him why he was feeling nervous.
"I said to Robin beforehand ... 'I'm not prepared to discuss, you know, that I'm gay on national television. I'm not ready,'" Lane says, before revealing Williams told him not to worry. Lane admits not talking about his sexuality was a bit of a challenge, considering his character in the 1996 comedy, Albert Goldman, is an openly gay man who stars in a South Beach drag club owned by his partner, Armand Goldman, played by Williams, who tragically "And so then, of course she [Winfrey] was like, 'How come you're so good at that girlie stuff? Are you worried about being typecast?'" Lane recalls.
To be fair, Lane says he doesn't think Winfrey was trying to out him as a gay man. But the subject about sexuality was a sensitive one for him at the time. He also tells Geist that he didn't buy into the notion that, just because he became a public figure withLane would go on toThe full interview with Lane airs on NBC News'
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