Lane was promoting the Mike Nichols film The Birdcage with Robin Williams in 1996 on The Oprah Winfrey Show when Oprah tried to get him to talk about his sexuality. "We had to discuss this beforehand and I said, 'I'm not ready to discuss whether I'm gay or not with Oprah. I can barely deal with meeting Oprah, let alone telling her I'm gay,'" the actor told The Hollywood Reporter's It Happened in Hollywood podcast. Lane ended up wiggling out of the question with the help of Williams.
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