Nathan Lane on losing roles after starring in ‘The Birdcage’: “I was too gay to play the part”

In the beginning I never really pursued film. I always thought theater was a more interesting place to be, because you learn more about acting that way. Movies were just to pay the bills so I could keep doing theater. Then ‘The Birdcage‘ came along. I thought perhaps because of the success of that, it’d lead to other films, but then it didn’t. It really didn’t.

I said to my agent, ‘I thought more would happen after The Birdcage.’ He said, ‘Maybe if you weren’t so open about your lifestyle, it would have.’ And he was an old queen telling me this. So I left him. Mike Nichols sent me to CAA. But no, there weren’t a lot of opportunities.

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