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Nathan Lane talks about how Robin Williams protected him when Oprah tried to make him come out of the closet on live TV. Oh she was 100% trying to out him. Robin seemed like such a great friend to have. Oprah just rubs me the wrong way.
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![Robin Williams “[Jews] please support the United Goyim College Fund.” Then the director starts shouting at him not to say that on camera, tries to kick him out of the audition. He knew.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2023238841763570104/amplify_video_thumb/2023238738298474496/img/yYWqOn2ezBeroUA6.jpg)
![According to Terry Gilliam, Robin Williams' character in "'The Fisher King' (1991) is in many ways the closest one to Robin, just that range — the madness, the damage, the pain, the sweetness, the outrageousness. That was the role I think that stretched him to the limits." Gilliam considered the filming of this important scene in the movie to be easy as far as effects were concerned, but as for acting, it was very hard as Robin Williams was tearing himself out emotionally. About how Robin Williams approached the scene, Gilliam said, "The interesting thing about Robin in all of those scenes was that he always wanted to do another take. He felt he had even more anguish and pain to spill out of the character. And I had to really stop him. I had to say, ‘Robin, you’ve reached a point here, way beyond what we expected. We’ve got what we needed. Now you’re just hurting yourself. That happened a couple of times while we were shooting this scene. The most worrisome moment for me was after he’s been chased by the Red Knight, when he’s running through the streets, and then he comes to the river, where the teenage punks arrive and knife him. We had to do other things on that night shoot, too, and things were going very slowly. Suddenly, we realized that we had like an hour until the dawn [would arrive]. The last shot we had to do was Robin running at the end of this scene, in this hysterical state. You can even see the light ever so slightly beginning to come on the river in the background. But Robin was so angry because it was such a crucial moment, and he felt he’d been cheated of his ability to really give this moment his all. And Robin was an incredibly strong guy: When he’d worked himself into this state of madness for the part, nobody could approach him. The first assistant, the stunt guy … nobody wanted to get near him. They were terrified. So, I had to go up there and tell him, ‘Robin, what we have here is very good. And if we look at the rushes and it isn’t, I promise you I will reshoot it.’ And I had to hug him basically, and hold him. I could feel these muscles that were so tense and so strong, they felt like they could easily r!p my he@d off. But that’s what was so extraordinary about him — how he would commit everything and more to what he had to do." ("Terry Gilliam Breaks Down a Particularly Hard Night With Robin Williams on The Fisher King", Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2014) P.S: Remembering the great American actor, Robin Williams, on his 75th birthday!](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2079645082618311155/amplify_video_thumb/2079616394027814912/img/J_DjI2ZZNtKPv82n.jpg)
![Robin Williams found Good Will Hunting’s final line after 60 takes, and it wasn’t originally in the script, according to Matt Damon. “Robin would open the door and come out and find the letter, and I was right next to Gus Van Sant, next to the camera. “I would say – because we wanted [it to look like] Robin heard my voice – ‘Sean if the professor calls about that job, tell him I’m sorry. I had to go see about a girl.’ So I’d say that.” “And what was scripted was that he just takes a moment and realises I’m gone. But in true Robin fashion, we did like 60 takes. We just left the camera rolling… and he did something different every single time. “I remember when he said, ‘Son of a bitch, he stole my line,’ I grabbed Gus’s shoulders, and I felt him tense up. We both knew. We were like, ‘holy shit, what a line; how did we not think of that?’”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2067738747731583344/amplify_video_thumb/2067738621424099328/img/0najMJHrCqQVlnr-.jpg)
