Matt Bomer Talks 'White Collar' Revival & Playing Queer Roles With Dark Stories
06.06.2024 - 20:45
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Matt Bomer opened up about reviving White Collar and some of the heavy roles that he’s played.
The 46-year-old Fellow Travelers actor participated in a roundtable conversation with fellow drama stars for The Hollywood Reporter.
During it, he was asked about plans to bring back his old series, which concluded its initial run in 2014.
He also revealed if there are any roles that he would not like to play again, prompting him to reflect on some of his heavier projects and the queer roles that he would like to play moving forward.
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Talking about White Collar, Matt said that he was excited by the idea of reuniting with his castmates.
“A lot of that is just about the joy of getting to work with that cast again. We were all so close-knit, and we still text at least once a week and we go to dinner all together as a group once a year,” he said. “When you get a job like that, and everybody can appreciate it because they’re at a point in their career where they’ve been around enough and had enough people tell them no or ‘You’ll never be this or that,’ we all were just really grateful for the experience. And we’ve been through a lot of loss together. The experience of just getting to create with those people again would be the most appealing thing to me.”
On the topic of previous roles, he said, “I needed to just come out from under the cloud of repression with certain characters between Maestro and Fellow Travelers and some other roles I’d done.”
He continued, explaining, “I feel so blessed, honestly, to have an opportunity to play some of the more nuanced LGBTQ roles at this point, and they are so diverse in how they’re written and how they’re brought to the screen, but if I was going to go in