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Matt Bomer Dishes on Donning\u00a0the Red Cape and Almost Being Cast as Superman 15 Years Ago:\u00a0AUDIO<\/b><\/p>\n

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Before he was making audiences sweat with his stripping abilities or apprehending dangerous white collar criminals, Matt Bomer was a little known daytime television soap opera actor. But what you may not know is that Bomer’s career could have played out much different way as the actor came this close<\/em> to being cast as the Man of Steel in a scrapped Superman film written by J.J. Abrams and directed by Brett Ratner.<\/p>\n

During a recent appearance on Josh Horowitz’s Happy, Sad, Confused<\/em> podcast, Bomer opened up about suiting up for the role back when he was around 23-years-old.<\/p>\n

\"flyby\"“I screen tested with Amy Adams in the tights,” said the Magic Mike XXL<\/em> star, who went on to reveal that both Paul Walker and Brendan Fraser also tried out for the role. “Thankfully Brett chose me for the project…it was maybe a month of ‘Okay this is going to happen’ and then it just slowly fell apart.”<\/p>\n

Unfortunatly, the project never took flight again after falling apart and the red and blue mantle passed on to Brandon Routh in Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns. <\/em>Warner Bros later rebooted the franchise again with Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel <\/em> in 2013 and a sequel titled Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice<\/a> <\/em>is due next year.<\/p>\n

Related, “18 Reasons Why Henry Cavill is the Sexiest Superman Yet”<\/a><\/em><\/h6>\n

Also of note from the interview – Bomer talks about what it was like being cast in The Normal Heart<\/em>, the HBO film based on the Larry Kramer play he read growing up in rural Texas.<\/p>\n

Watch the interview below (Supmerman talk starts around 26:45)<\/p>\n

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