Nathan Lane on Ari Aster's "Divisive" Beau Is Afraid, Winning an Emmy and His Musical with Seth 

The Steve Martin talkshow technique.

He’s one of the all time greats

He’s a raconteur’s raconteur

Him and Martin Short come loaded for bear.

Nathan is on fire here.

I need 80 minutes of him and then another 100 for the same low price!!

Maybe that's why he's retiring from the stage? Have they announced a replacement for James Corden yet…?

Eight years ago Seth Meyers helped me through some hard times… but throw in Nathan Lane and dang… happiest ever!!! Too funny!

Baranski: "It needs.....a lot.....of work" Which is not a 'No'.

If this thing ever gets made, it's going to be GLORIOUSLY weird ❤

So glad they are fulfilling my dream of having Marc & Scott work on this!

I love that I read it as Cicāda Cicâda. Ps, idk if those are the right symbols.

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😀🐾

Or does it become a play about trying to create the play? Script by Charlie Kaufman?

I want it. Cicada, Cicada. I don't care if it's developed as a short movie, or if they perform it for the audience on Seth's show, or even as animation.

I’d love to see it done like “Animal Flubs.” I think that would work if the Graphics department behaves themselves. 😉

*Cicada!Cicada!

@@Tao_Tology yes. Cicada! Cicada! Thank you for the correction.

I would have thought it was Crocs, but even Nathan at his most relaxed has standards

😂

I thought the same thing

Robin Williams prevented Oprah from unconsensually outing Nathan as gay at a time when he could’ve lost a lot of work.

@@gab.lab.martins Robin was a truly lovely person…I had several interactions with him when I worked at a video store.

I didn't like it. It was extremely "art schooly" and the story telling muddled in its long run time

@@thesmellycatjazz still can’t tell if I liked it or hated it yet I need answers 😭😭😭

Beau is Afraid made my mental illness hurt

@@thesmellycatjazz I loved it. What do you mean by "art schooly"? Lol

@@thesmellycatjazz you got filtered lol

Absolutely! I have been boycotting planes since 2013, but for Cicada, Cicada....

Good god are people really shitting in the theater aisles of broadway?

@@HH-gv8mx no. There are more frequent bouts of a lack of decorum, with audiences returning to the theatre post-pandemic with a sense of entitlement that hasn’t been seen before. But, it’s still unclear if this troubling behavior is temporary or if the Theatre world must adjust accordingly and find ways to more effectively curve these disruptive people.

@@mctheplaywright too many things have changed for the negative post pandemic. People have turned into feral heathens. Colleges have gotten lazy and decided to take your money and do everything online so you have no FaceTime with any human beings in your class, not the professor, not any students. You can’t even get on a plane anymore without worrying about the people around you, someone might bite you. .and now animals are getting into the theatres and taking shadoobies in the aisles 🤮

I saw him in that play too. He was amazing!! I still remember his hilarious Harvey Fierstein impression.

@@withalittlehelpfrom3 He is a brilliant actor.

The cast of this movie is so good! I loved Richard Kind as well, half his performance was through a phone but he even gave that so much character. And the iconic Patti LuPone!

@@coopercalled The phone call was hilarious. “Stop the humiliation” lol. I was overjoyed to see it was Richard Kind.

Wish this was playing near me 😢 Road-trip time 😂

Martin short

Steve Martin

It should be called "Nathan Lane DOES Broadway"

So What's with the Medusa Sequence,?.. How does that fit in with the Entirety of the Vibe and the Script (and the Consistency) of the film ,?.. (For Starters. .?...)

​@@drumbum3.142 Can you be more specific about what you mean by the Medusa Sequence?

@@Travmann777 Absolutely. . ... .. Towards the (Very End) of the Film, when Parker Posey gets turned into stone - ala Cronenberg style; After/During (Possibly Orgasmic) Congress with Beau.. What.. Purpose does this .. Particular Scene "Serve"; within the context of the Script ,? Most of this film.. ... Seemed to Be Realistic and/or Plausable.. If for No Other reason, (showing) the perspective of one who is (mentally) Unstable. I do Not mind (one bit) saying i Looked it Up; the.. Conclusion of the Intimate Exchange/Scene - so to speak; to see if it was .. (really) a thing. Didn't Find Squat on it. Though if.. ... there IS .. Research and/or Episodes and Examples of this Happening.. I Am All Ears. . This (Coition) Scene (Especially as it reached its Plateau and Climax, and Immedeatly what followed); didnt seem to fit, nor sync; with the (overall) story. (For me) it was like they brought in an idea.. ..a detail from a House of Wax Film. (?) 🤨🤔😐🤷‍♂️ What's aforementioned Scene's "Purpose" and Function within the Story ?. (And if need be I can and will Gladly rephrase that question again differently if need be.)

@@drumbum3.142 OK that’s the scene I thought you meant (she does go into rigor mortis fast huh?). To premise my general feelings, this entire movie has nightmare logic, and to that end, nothing to me really stood out as not fitting in. Here are some random thoughts on the scene! It fits his character. He’s a virgin, and that fact has been hammered down on us throughout the film (the play sequence, the cruise sequence, everything with him as a child). Him losing his virginity to someone in his mother’s bed on the night of her funeral I feel is a culmination of his journey. He is attempting to cut the connection to being only his mother’s son, and attempting to transition into being an independent adult (SIDE BAR, there were some MAD Oedipus vibes in this film. He indirectly kills his father via his conception. His mother laying in bed with him as a child. Fucking Parker Posey in his mother's bed). But of course here comes one of the major themes of the film: guilt. Whether or not his mother is really there, she’s a symbol of the guilt that he feels constantly (in part due to never living up to her insane expectations). The entire film is him reacting to the things happening around him to his detriment; isn’t it interesting that one of the first real decisions he makes is INSTANTLY cut short by his mothers sudden re-appearance? I didn’t bother thinking of anything in this film in terms of reality VS delusion. We never leave the heightened state of reality the movie takes place in. I took it in more like an expressionist painting. Whether or not Beau is actually guilty, he feels guilty, and that feeling just washes over you throughout the movie. For me, this scene shows that Beau is truly doomed. He can try to escape his mother, he can try to grow, but that nagging guilt will always be there. He’s a broken person, and as we know the guilt WILL take him.

@@drumbum3.142 Beau thought he had a Cardiac problem that will cause him to die after an orgasm, turns out he didn't but the woman he was sleeping with did. There are examples of this happening in real life although extremely rare. The woman freezing was through rigor mortis, the speed although exagerated for comiedic effect.

Potato, tomato, cicada, cicada Let's put the show on anyway!

'Cicada!Cicada! : May the town never stop being a-buzz'

He could replace James Corden! 😉

I've always thought Mouse Hunt is pretty underrated. Hard to watch films you can REALLY enjoy with your kids often - that's one of the good ones.

Doorman.