Although longtime Matt Bomer fans will likely always have a Superman-shaped hole in their heart, he’s moved on.
As the Golden Globe winner promotes his new Hulu gay sitcom Mid-Century Modern, he recently criticized an outlet that referred to his public outing as a “painful turn of events” that “lost him the title role” as the Kryptonian DC superhero.
“This conversation had nothing to do with Superman, so please stop painting me into a victim narrative for your own clickbait,” he wrote in part in a since-deleted post on X. “I love my career and wouldn’t change a thing about it. The conversation we had was about a lack of journalistic integrity, and now you’ve done the same thing. Please do better. I wish you the best always, Matt.”
Bomer, 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.
“I 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,” he told THR in June 2024. “It looked like I was the director’s choice for the role.”
When asked if his sexuality was a factor in the studio’s reluctance to hire him, Bomer said, “Yeah, that’s 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’t know, but yeah, that’s my understanding.”
Last weekend, Bomer discussed his role as gay, ex-Mormon flight attendant Jerry Frank in Mid-Century Modern at Deadline’s Contenders TV, raving, “I cannot tell you how liberating it is to play a character without shame.”
