You are listening to the three questions with Andy Richter and today I'm very excited

to have a fixture of yet you pick a medium and he's a fixture painting sculpture. Let me get my sculptures out.

I'm talking to Nathan Lane today. Hello Nathan, thank you for being here. Hello Andy, thanks for having me.

Does it seem like everyone now has a podcast except me, but I'm happy to be on your podcast. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, no, they actually I will I think podcast podcasting's best friend was the pandemic.

Absolutely. Yeah, one of the funny one of the things that I loved was you know so many people are you know they keep publicity at an arms link and they you know when they kind of maintain a mystique and you know and then two months of being locked at home and even the biggest stars were like get me on the camera.

Well, be on the computer. I need to be on the internet and to be seen. I mean because it was just hilarious how many big main hole were all of a sudden. Oh my God, look, there's you know there's Jessica Chastine so much of my career has been built on maintaining my mystique. Yeah, how that's so true. I you know I the I guess was was Mark Marin really the mother ship the first hot deal. What was that?

Hot deal. What was the first podcast? He wasn't really like the first first, but he got in very early on the ground floor. There's a there's a couple other guys in comedy in LA here like a guy named Jimmy Pardo had a podcast very early.

Another guy named Scott Aquaman. He started the company. Oh, so I'm sure because I mean I started going on podcast because I knew these guys before I even knew what a podcast was. Yeah, and I learned my lesson going on Mark Marin's.

Which was still pretty early because I talked very frankly about my family because I thought they're never going to hear this and they heard it.

Well, his name sort of the most famous podcast for a while. Yeah, yeah, which actually segues nicely into what you're one of the things you're here promoting is that you are in the new film, Bo is afraid.

The new I asked her a 24 film and I saw that movie in a screening and I loved it and you were great in it and and but I can all I could think was is are he asked her mother still alive.

Like is she going to see this because it is it is about it's like if I'm if your mother concocted your worst nightmare for you and then made you live it for three hours because it's the most anti mother movie I've ever seen in my life.

It's fantastic. Well, yeah, his mother is alive and well and they seem to have a good relationship.

As he described it to me, it's sounded perhaps a little passive aggressive, but nothing happens in this film.

Yeah, I mean, you know, only Ari and his therapist could tell you what he's really like.

I'm not quite sure, but it's yeah, it's certainly a massive piece of filmmaking. Yeah, Joaquin is just phenomenal is.

Yeah, it's a yeah, there's he does so much acting so much wonderful perfect acting standing and saying nothing just looking hurt and confused.

That's 90% of the movie like what? And that says a viewer.

There's a lot of people will be like what? Well, this for people that don't know it's it's a full any movie. It's a it is it's surreal. You cannot take this movie and think that this is meant to be reality.

This movie is a long nightmare. Right. A very enjoyable hilarious nightmare. I mean some glad you found it funny because you have a great sense of humor.

And so I'm makes me happy to hear you. I don't know if he intended it is such, but to me it seemed mostly a comedy because there's just so much stuff that's so absurd.

No, I think that is what he was intending, but it's a very twisted mind. Well, yes, he and you know, he'll say that midsummer was a laugh riot.

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