Matt Bomer Lost Superman Role After Being Outed As Gay

“I went in on a cattle call for Superman, and then it turned into a four-month audition experience,” he explained. “I was auditioning again and again and again and flying out to New York and doing chemistry reads and flying out to LA and doing chemistry reads, back to New York, flying back to LA to do a screen test, and it looked like I was the director’s choice for the role.”

“This was a very early iteration of Superman, written by JJ Abrams, called Superman: Flyby, I think,” he went on. “It never came to light, but concurrently, on Guiding Light, there was a killer in town, and they needed somebody to pin it all on, and so my executive producer very kindly wanted to free me up just in case this job came through and said: ‘Hey, you’re going to be the killer, we’re writing you off the show, go with my blessing.’ I basically got fired but in a generous way.”

Matt then reiterated that he had good reason to believe that a life-changing project was on the horizon at this point, revealing: “I had signed a three-picture deal with Warner Brothers.”