Nathan Lane Reveals How 'Saint' Robin Williams Protected Him During 'Oprah' Interview In 1996

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Meghan Markle has successfully had her half-sister Samantha Markle's court case dismissed. She had accused the royal of spreading "malicious lies" during the bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview in 2021.

Meghan Markle has successfully had her half-sister's lawsuit dismissed after a judge ruled in her favour.

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Oprah Winfrey is known for her intimate sit down chats, like her bombshell interview with Harry and Meghan. But even long-time hosts like Oprah get it wrong sometimes, as Nathan Lane recently highlighted when he told NBC Sunday Today that late actor Robin Williams for was 'a saint' after he 'swooped in' and saved him during a 1996 Oprah interview when he wasn't ready to publicly come out as gay. Lane, 67, publicly came out three years later in 1999, but during the press tour for his movie The Birdcage - where he starred alongside Williams - he simply 'wasn't ready' to tell the world when Oprah asked him if he was worried about being typecast because he played a drag queen in the movie.

Nathan Lane is remembering his friend Robin Williams — as a “saint.”

during an interview on the “Oprah Winfrey Show” when the Oscar winner then stepped in.“I was not prepared at all for that,” Lane said during a chat on the “Today” show Sunday about being open with his homosexuality in public.“And I certainly wasn’t ready to go from table-to-table and tell them all I was gay,” the “Lion King” actor and New Jersey native continued. “I just wanted to talk about finally [I] got a big part in a movie, and I didn’t want to make it about my sexuality.”In “The Birdcage,” Williams — who died in 2014 — and Lane played a gay couple whose son is about to be married.Tony winner Lane explained on the morning show how he knew that starring in a queer film would bring inquiries about his own sexuality — and it was “sort of unavoidable.”However, while he knew that Winfrey, 69, wasn’t trying to out him on purpose, he recalled what he mentioned to “Good Will Hunting” star Williams prior to the interview.

Nathan Lane says he wasn’t ready to publicly come out of the closet when The Birdcage opened in 1996, and co-star Robin Williams helped him dodge the issue during an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Nathan Lane revealed on “Sunday Today” that Robin Williams once protected him from coming out as gay against his will on national television. The year was 1996 and Lane and Williams were on their press tour for Mike Nichols’ “The Birdcage,” in which they play a gay couple trying to marry off their son to a conservative couple’s daughter. Lane was nervous about doing an interview on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” as “The Birdcage” was one of his first major film roles, and he did not want to come out publicly as gay at the time. “I was not prepared at all for that,” Lane said about openly discussing his sexuality at the time. “And I certainly wasn’t ready to go from table-to-table and tell them all I was gay. I just wanted to talk about finally [getting] a big part in a movie, and I didn’t want to make it about my sexuality.”

Robin Williams helped him avoid being outed on a TV talk show.The actor recalled the incident, which took place on The Oprah Winfrey Show around the time that the two stars appeared in The Birdcage together in 1996.“I was not prepared at all for that,” Lane explained on TODAY of the possibility of discussing his sexuality publicly at the time.“And I certainly wasn’t ready to go from table-to-table and tell them all I was gay. I just wanted to talk about I finally got a big part in a movie and I didn’t want to make it about my sexuality, although it was sort of unavoidable because of the nature of the film and the character.”Speaking further about the interview, the star recalled: “I don’t think Oprah was trying to out me.

Nathan Lane is recalling the sweet moment when Robin Williams saved him from having to talk about his sexuality when he wasn’t ready to do so.

Sam Neill has said that Robin Williams was “inconsolably solitary and deeply depressed” at the height of his career. The actor has penned a new memoir, Did I Ever Tell You This?In the book, Sir Sam, 75, writes of Williams: “He had fame, he was rich, people loved him, great kids — the world was his oyster. “And yet I felt more sorry for him than I can express.

Nathan Lane is recalling the sweet moment when Robin Williams saved him from having to talk about his sexuality when he wasn't ready to do so.In an upcoming interview on, the 67-year-old actor fondly remembered the time he and Williams were set to appear on to promote but 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 died in August 2014. «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.

Sam Neill has described his late co-star Robin Williams as both the "funniest" and the "saddest" person he has ever met. The 75-year-old reflected on the time he spent with Williams shooting 1999's Bicentennial Man in his new memoir, Did I Ever Tell You This?, and described the late actor as "irresistibly, outrageously, irrepressibly, gigantically funny". However, the Jurassic Park actor could also sense a "dark space inside" the Good Will Hunting star.

Sam Neill has special memories of Robin Williams, who worked with him in 1999’s Bicentennial Man. Neill, 75, looked back on their time together in his new March 21-released memoir, Did I Ever Tell You This?

Did I Ever Tell You This?, the actor recalls how they had “great chats” together while visiting each other’s trailers on the set of 1999 film Bicentennial Man.“We would talk about this and that, sometimes even about the work we were about to do,” Neill wrote (via People), adding that Williams was “irresistibly, outrageously, irrepressibly, gigantically funny”.Neill describes the late actor as simultaneously the “funniest person” he ever worked with and “the saddest person I ever met”.He added: “He had fame, he was rich, people loved him, great kids – the world was his oyster. And yet I felt more sorry for him than I can express.

Sam Neill thinks Robin Williams was the "saddest person" he's ever met. The comedy star committed suicide in August 2014, and Sam - who worked alongside him on the 1999 movie 'Bicentennial Man' - has now opened up about their friendship, describing Robin as the "funniest person" he ever worked with. In his new memoir, 'Did I Ever Tell You This?', he writes: "He had fame, he was rich, people loved him, great kids - the world was his oyster.