Imagine being a straight man acting as a gay man pretending to be a straight man. And now you know one more reason that Nathan Lane is a great actor.

Funnily enough, The Birdcage was the first movie I ever went to see in a theater. My mother, my aunt, and my two cousins all went. At the time, I was a bit too young to fully realize what ‘gay’ and ‘straight’ men other than boys kissing boys.

This video features one of the funniest parts of the movie, when Robin Williams is trying to get Nathan Lane to act like a tough straight man because their son’s girlfriend’s parents are coming to meet them…