{"id":9954,"date":"2025-04-11T05:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T05:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/9954\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T05:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T05:19:12","slug":"matt-bomer-slams-victim-narrative-sexuality-cost-him-superman-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/9954\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Bomer Slams “Victim Narrative” Sexuality Cost Him Superman Role"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAlthough longtime Matt Bomer<\/a> fans will likely always have a Superman<\/a>-shaped hole in their heart, he\u2019s moved on.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs the Golden Globe winner promotes his new Hulu gay sitcom Mid-Century Modern<\/a>, he recently criticized an outlet that referred to his public outing as a \u201cpainful turn of events\u201d that \u201clost him the title role\u201d as the Kryptonian DC superhero.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis conversation had nothing to do with Superman, so please stop painting me into a victim narrative for your own clickbait,\u201d he wrote in part in a since-deleted post on X. \u201cI love my career and wouldn\u2019t change a thing about it. The conversation we had was about a lack of journalistic integrity, and now you\u2019ve done the same thing. Please do better. I wish you the best always, Matt.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBomer, who publicly came out in 2012, previously 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 point.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI went in on a cattle call for Superman, and then it turned into a one-month audition experience where I was auditioning again and again and again,\u201d he told THR in June 2024. \u201cIt looked like I was the director\u2019s choice for the role.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen asked if his sexuality was a factor in the studio\u2019s reluctance to hire him, Bomer said, \u201cYeah, that\u2019s my understanding. That was a time in the industry when something like that could still really be weaponized against you. How, and why, and who, I don\u2019t know, but yeah, that\u2019s my understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLast weekend, Bomer discussed his role<\/a> as gay, ex-Mormon flight attendant Jerry Frank in Mid-Century Modern at Deadline\u2019s Contenders TV, raving, \u201cI cannot tell you how liberating it is to play a character without shame.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although longtime Matt Bomer fans will likely always have a Superman-shaped hole in their heart, he\u2019s moved on.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,5763,6760,4169,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-9954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-lgbtq","11":"tag-matt-bomer","12":"tag-superman","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114317647670392161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}