Nathan Lane is opening up about the difficult path to coming out as gay, something he did in the late 1990s after achieving worldwide fame in the blockbuster hit 'The Birdcage'
. "And then people were just annoyed that I came out. 'Yeah, we already knew! Fuck you.' So there was no winning there," he says. "It was all so intimidating. Honestly, it was terrifying.", Lane was out to the cast and crew. But for a major motion picture that centers on a same-sex relationship, he often found himself to be the only gay person on the set.
"I felt lucky just to be invited to the party so it was very hard for me to question him at all," he says. "He did the classic, 'Just do one for me.' Of course, that's what he used." He recalls a conversation with his then-agent, the late Jeff Hunter, a longtime William Morris vet who had repped Marlene Dietrich and Montgomery Clift.. I thought it was maybe going to lead to stuff,'" Lane recalls. "He said to me, 'Maybe if you weren't so open about your sexuality.' He was gay. He was this shaved head, moustache, old queen and he said, 'Maybe if you weren't so open about your sexuality you'd have more offers.' So I left. I went to CAA.
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