Though longtime Matt Bomer followers will probably at all times have a Superman-shaped gap of their coronary heart, he’s moved on.
Because the Golden Globe winner promotes his new Hulu homosexual sitcom Mid-Century Trendy, he just lately criticized an outlet that referred to his public outing as a “painful flip of occasions” that “misplaced him the title position” because the Kryptonian DC superhero.
“This dialog had nothing to do with Superman, so please cease portray me right into a sufferer narrative on your personal clickbait,” he wrote partly in a since-deleted publish on X. “I like my profession and wouldn’t change a factor about it. The dialog we had was a few lack of journalistic integrity, and now you’ve executed the identical factor. Please do higher. I want you the most effective at all times, Matt.”
Bomer, who publicly got here out in 2012, beforehand recounted auditioning for the aborted J.J. Abrams script Superman: Flyby, claiming that he even signed a three-picture contract with the studio at one level.
“I went in on a cattle name for Superman, after which it changed into a one-month audition expertise the place I used to be auditioning time and again and once more,” he informed THR in June 2024. “It appeared like I used to be the director’s selection for the position.”
When requested if his sexuality was an element within the studio’s reluctance to rent him, Bomer mentioned, “Yeah, that’s my understanding. That was a time within the trade when one thing like that might nonetheless actually be weaponized in opposition to you. How, and why, and who, I don’t know, however yeah, that’s my understanding.”
Final weekend, Bomer mentioned his position as homosexual, ex-Mormon flight attendant Jerry Frank in Mid-Century Trendy at Deadline’s Contenders TV, raving, “I can not inform you how liberating it’s to play a personality with out disgrace.”
