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    Nathan Lane Says Homophobia Price Him a Position in This Beloved 1996 Household Film

    David GroveBy David GroveMarch 25, 20254 Mins Read
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    Emmy award-winning actor Nathan Lane is understood for his roles in numerous tasks. He was the voice of Timon in Disney’s The Lion King, Albert Goldman in The Birdcage, and he not too long ago appeared as Dominick Dunne within the controversial Netflix sequence Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. Nonetheless, there’s one function Lane says he did not get that ended up going to “the man from Seinfeld” for one, ridiculous purpose: homophobia.

    Lane, who got here out as homosexual in 1999, not too long ago spoke to Vainness Honest about his life and profession. When requested if he feels that his roles in Hollywood have been restricted due to homophobia, the Tony award-winning actor mentioned he did not know if that was the case in each half he misplaced out on, however he did present a selected instance of when it did rear its ugly head. The film in query? The beloved 1996 household sports activities comedy Area Jam.

    “I don’t know what goes on behind closed doorways, however I am unable to assist however suppose that it performed an element. I used to be instructed it did affect a film that I didn’t actually care about: Area Jam. I used to be up for the half that the man from Seinfeld wound up taking part in.”

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    The half was as Michael Jordan’s publicist and assistant in Area Jam, Stan Podolak, which ended up going to Seinfeld’s Wayne Knight. Knight is legendary for portraying the function of Newman within the traditional sitcom, and three years earlier than Area Jam, he ended up taking part in a pivotal function in Jurassic Park as disgruntled pc programmer Dennis Nedry. “I used to be up for that half,” continued Lane, including:

    “Apparently the director [Joe Pytka] noticed me internet hosting the Tony Awards and thought that instructed I used to be too homosexual to play the half. So thank God, I did not should do Area Jam. [Laughs] However I do not know. I am going to by no means know what individuals say. Homophobia is alive and nicely nonetheless.”

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    Nathan Lane Thought ‘The Birdcage’ Would Result in Larger and Higher Issues

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    Shortly after Lane misplaced out on the half in Area Jam, The Birdcage ended up falling into his lap. Primarily based on the 1973 French play La Cage aux Folles, the movie starred Lane and Robin Williams as a homosexual couple whose son is ready to marry the daughter of a conservative senator and his spouse. Produced for $31 million, the comedy went on to earn greater than $185 million on the field workplace, and for Lane, he thought for certain it might result in different massive roles. Sadly, it did not, and a derogatory quip from his agent on the time proved his level about homophobia being an actual subject in Hollywood.

    “The Birdcage got here alongside. I assumed maybe due to the success of that, it’d result in different movies, however then it did not. It actually did not. I mentioned to my agent, ‘I assumed extra would occur after The Birdcage.’ He mentioned, ‘Possibly if you happen to weren’t so open about your way of life, it might have.'”

    Fortunately, Lane removed that agent shortly thereafter. Subsequent up for him is Mid-Century Trendy, a Hulu unique comedy sequence that is described as a gender-swapped model of Golden Women, which stars Lane, Matt Bomer, and Nathan Lee Graham as three homosexual males who resolve to stay collectively in Palm Springs, the place the wealthiest of the three lives together with his mom. All 10 episodes of the present’s first season drop this coming Friday, March 28.

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    Area Jam


    Launch Date

    November 15, 1996

    Runtime

    88 Minutes






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