161. Nathan Lane Returns: The Safest Thing You Can Do Is Take a Risk

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

Mygirlfriendsboyfriend, Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Sleepwalkwithme, Iraglass, Comedy, Thankgodforjokes, Thenewone, Mikebirbiglia, Dontthinktwice, Birbiglia

4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week, the great Nathan Lane returns to Working it Out. Nathan recounts moments from his legendary career — discussing what it was like to work with Mike Nichols, Elaine May, and Robin Williams. He shares what he likes most in a director, who he’s jealous of, and what he remembers of twenty-something year old Mike. Plus, an incredible story about working with Joaquin Phoenix on the film Beau is Afraid. Nathan’s new highly-anticipated series, Mid-Century Modern, drops March 28 on Hulu. Please consider donating to: https://broadwaycares.org/

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Who is someone you're jealous of?
0:10.0	Well, that's not fair.
0:12.1	To ask someone in show business that?
0:15.0	Well, let me get out my list.
0:25.6	Music Let me get out my list. That is the voice of the great Nathan Lane.
0:28.4	Nathan Lane returns.
0:30.1	But this time to the studio.
0:31.9	This is as excited as I have been and nervous for that matter. Even though Nathan's my friend for many,
0:39.6	many years, I'm just in awe of his talent. You might know he presented my very first off-Broadway
0:45.7	show, Sleepwalk with me in 2008. He has been a huge, uh, guiding light in my career and in my life. And one of the great American actors, he is in a new
0:58.1	series called Mid-Century Modern that comes out on Hulu, March 28th. I am thrilled about it.
1:05.7	We talk about that today. We talk about all kinds of acting roles he's done over the years, and man, does he have
1:12.9	great stories. I just love, love, love this episode. By the way, thanks to everyone who has come out
1:18.3	to my final shows leading up to six shows at the Beacon Theater. I've been working recently
1:27.3	with my director, Seth Berish,
1:29.3	and our set designer, Bay Wolf Barrett, who brilliant set designer did Old Man in the Pool,
1:35.7	and the new one. And actually, all my shows are lighting designer, Aaron Kopp. We just have a great
1:40.1	artistic team for this show at the Beacon Six shows March 16 through 22. Thanks to everybody
1:48.0	who came out in Northampton and Burlington. I'm doing a few shows in Los Angeles at Largo and I appreciate
1:56.0	it so much. I love this chat with Nathan today. We talk about Robin Williams. We talk about
2:00.7	the Birdcage and Mike Nichols
2:02.7	and a film, two films that he was in that I love.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.