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Matt Bomer claims he lost Superman role because he’s gay: My sexuality was ‘weaponized’ against me
Superman on the big screen in the early 2000s, but he allegedly lost out on the role when he was outed as gay. “I went in on a cattle call for Superman, and then it turned into a four-month audition experience,” he recalled on the Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast episode released Monday.“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.”Bomer, who was let go from the CBS soap opera “Guiding Light” when he was auditioning for J.J.