Nathan Lane Looks Back on Filming The Birdcage with Robin Williams: 'He Was Incredibly Generous' (Exclusive)

Nathan Lane remembers his 'The Birdcage' costar Robin Williams as "the dearest and sweetest guy in the world, and so talented"

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00:00 It was an extremely happy experience and when Mike Nichols asked me to do it, I remember him saying,

00:10 "Nathan, I want only nice people on this movie." And I said, "Okay, I'm sure there are some nice

00:20 people in show business who would be willing to do this." And he did. He put together an extremely

00:26 nice group of people who were also very, very talented and led by Robin, who was, you know,

00:33 the dearest and sweetest guy in the world and so talented. He was incredibly generous to me.