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Apr 18, 2023 55 min

Nathan Lane: Don't Call Him an Entertainer!

from The Great Creators with Guy Raz

Nathan Lane has been called "the greatest stage entertainer" of the 2000s. But as you'll learn in this episode, that compliment rubbed him the wrong way... and motivated him to take on a wide range of complex, nuanced, "scary" roles on stage and screen. Nathan talks to Guy about performing singing telegrams as a young man, making it to Hollywood as part of a comedy duo, working with Mel Brooks on "The Producers," and the process he goes through to embody a character on stage. Links from the show: Stack & Lane comedy duo routine on Norm Crosby's Comedy Shop in 1980 Actor George C. Scott (Patton, A Christmas Carol): IMDb The NYT profile of Nathan that motivated him to pursue more challenging roles Nathan playing Roy Cohn in Angels in America The Producers (2005) movie trailer

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