Actor Nathan Lane told Vanity Fair that he was “too gay” to play a part in the smash 1996 movie Space Jam. The 69-year-old said he was in contention for the role but that changed after the film’s ...

E mmy award-winning actor Nathan Lane is known for his roles in a lot of projects. He was the voice of Timon in Disney's The Lion King, Albert Goldman in The Birdcage, and he rece ...

a role that eventually went to Seinfeld star Wayne Knight. However, Nathan noted that the film was one that he “didn’t really ...

Nathane Lane says the director of Space Jam thought he was “too gay” to play Michael Jordan’s assistant in the 1996 ...

“I was up for that part,” Lane told Vanity Fair. “Apparently the director [Joe Pytka] saw me hosting the Tony Awards and ...

Nathan Lane has claimed he missed out on a role in Space Jam because of his sexuality. The Tony-winner, 69, who shot to fame in The Birdcage – a 1996 comedy about a queer couple forced back in the ...

Nathan Lane says he was told he was "too gay" for a role in Space Jam, but he "didn't really care" about it anyway.

Lane said he had been hosting the Tony Awards in 1996 when Space Jam’s director, Joe Pytka, observed he was “too gay” to play Michael Jordan’s assistant in the film and cast Wayne Knight ...

Space Jam was an iconic movie in every respect ... The movie also starred Wayne Knight, Theresa Randle, Charles Barkley, Muggsy Bogues, Shawn Bradley, Patrick Ewing, and Larry Johnson.

I was told it did impact a movie that I didn’t really care about: ‘Space Jam.’ I was up for the part that the guy from ‘Seinfeld’ [Wayne Knight] wound up playing.” Even Lane’s (now ...