Matt Bomer is setting the file straight—and doing it with the identical poise and style that’s made him a fan-favorite for years.
Whereas some longtime supporters should still dream of him hovering throughout Metropolis in a cape, Bomer has formally moved on from the Superman that would’ve been, and he is extra centered on celebrating his current.
The actor, now starring within the Hulu comedy Mid-Century Fashionable, not too long ago addressed a resurfaced narrative that claimed he misplaced the Superman position on account of being publicly outed.
One outlet referred to it as a “painful flip of occasions,” which didn’t sit proper with Bomer. In a since-deleted submit on X, he gave the story somewhat truth-lasso remedy.
“This dialog had nothing to do with Superman, so please cease portray me right into a sufferer narrative on your personal clickbait,” he wrote.
“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 completed the identical factor. Please do higher. I want you the very best at all times, Matt.”
Bomer, who publicly got here out in 2012, beforehand shared that he had as soon as been severely thought of for a Superman reboot.
In June 2024, he informed The Hollywood Reporter about his audition course of for Superman: Flyby, a model of the movie scripted by J.J. Abrams that finally by no means took off.
“I went in on a cattle name for Superman, after which it was a one-month audition expertise the place I used to be auditioning repeatedly and once more,” he recalled.
“It appeared like I used to be the director’s selection for the position.”
When requested instantly if his sexuality performed a job within the studio’s choice to go on him, Bomer was candid.
“Yeah, that’s my understanding. That was a time within the business when one thing like that would nonetheless actually be weaponized in opposition to you. How, and why, and who, I don’t know, however yeah, that’s my understanding.”
However as a substitute of wanting again with bitterness, Bomer is all in regards to the right here and now—particularly, his position as Jerry Frank, a homosexual ex-Mormon flight attendant, in Mid-Century Fashionable.
Talking in regards to the position to Deadline, Bomer couldn’t assist however gush. “I can not let you know how liberating it’s to play a personality with out disgrace,” he mentioned.
