“At the end of the play each night there’s some closure. Making the film took a heavier toll even than performing the show eight times a week. Donald is looking to the horizon for something beyond all this and there’s nothing there – it’s uncharted territory.” My favourite line is when Michael asks what time it is and I reply: ‘It’s early.’ I feel that’s true for the movement and where these men were it really was early in their development. “It’s about this moment right before that explosion, that revolution, and in a way the characters feel like they’re going to be trapped in this play until something changes. “It all takes place a few months before Stonewall,” he points out. The self-pitying tenor of some of the characters may sit uneasily with our fluid and unabashed times but Bomer believes the play’s importance comes from capturing an age before queerness was clearly defined, let alone accepted. We need to see access for everyone.” And then? “May the best actor win, I guess.”
But I do understand the need for equal opportunity and access to roles for people across the LGBTQ spectrum. “Everyone just played everything, really. “I’ve been doing theatre professionally since I was 17,” he says.
Not that Bomer thinks such roles should be played only by gay performers. That production, which went on to win the Tony for best revival of a play, was a minor breakthrough: it boasted an entirely out gay cast, the same one that has been reunited for the film version. The actor wasn’t familiar with the play, or with William Friedkin’s 1970 film version, before he was cast in the 50th anniversary Broadway run in 2018. “But I think there was definitely something about me there which Reid was riffing on.” “I don’t really know if I use the same meditation techniques that Ken does,” he laughs. That reference to meditation can’t help but call to mind the Oprah-quoting, reiki-practising stripper Ken, whom he played in the two Magic Mike movies.
“I’ve already been up a while, making breakfast, getting the kids settled into ‘Zoom school’ and trying to get my meditation in.”
#MATT BOMER AND SIMON HALLS INTERVIEW TV#
“I wish,” he smiles, exuding the faintly weary graciousness of someone whose appearance has been attracting comment since long before he was named sexiest man on TV in 2011. Presumably, Bomer just tumbled out of bed looking that way and plonked himself in front of the webcam. He is video-calling from the bright attic room of the home he shares with his husband, the Hollywood publicist Simon Halls, and their three sons a rubber plant yoo-hoos over his shoulder. The 42-year-old actor even has a sunny disposition, despite it being not yet 10am in Los Angeles. M att Bomer looks too good to be true: zinging blue eyes, dark shirt partially unbuttoned, glossy black hair a mere kiss-curl away from Christopher Reeve-era Superman.
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