Nathan Lane

you know, perhaps being attracted to other young men but not being able to show any of that.

And that's, you know, but I got involved.

The social activity was being involved in the drama club and putting on plays.

Yeah.

Oh, God, I've told this story so much, and my poor mother, I feel guilty now, but it's become a famous story, unfortunately.

Oh, totally.

You know, you have to understand, this was not a sophisticated woman.

She had her prejudices.

God knows.

Well, sure.

You know, but I think – look, I think what happened is they went to a wedding.

My mother, of all the people in her family who are all drunks, she did not drink.

But if she went out, she might – she would order one thing, a whiskey sour on the rocks and she would sort of nurse it through an evening.

But I think maybe this one night at the wedding, she had two and they had sex and, you know, the future hope of Broadway was born.

Anyway, so what was the question?

Okay.

So we had been living in Rutherford together in this tiny one-bedroom apartment.

And – or I slept on the – this is the most uncomfortable couch in history.

And –

I had done a production of Guys and Dolls, a non-equity production of Guys and Dolls at a dinner theater in Meadowbrook, New Jersey, where I played Nathan Detroit.