“I just wanted to talk about finally [I] got a big part in a movie, and I didn’t want to make it about my sexuality,” Lane recalled.
“And I certainly wasn’t ready to go from table-to-table and tell them all I was gay,” the “Lion King” actor and New Jersey native continued.
However, while he knew that Winfrey, 69, wasn’t trying to out him on purpose, he recalled what he mentioned to “Good Will Hunting” star Williams prior to the interview. The famed media mogul wound up asking questions that did leave an opening for the “Gilded Age” star to talk about coming out in the future.
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