Still, something of the great outdoors must have stuck because Mr Bomer has just returned from a rustic vacation with his husband and kids at a lake in Canada – “kayaking, fishing, swimming, catching little critters”. “I still have that super-ego voice of all those Texas football coaches in my head any time I’m doing anything physical, so I can usually push myself solo pretty well.” “Twenty minutes and, if you do it right, you’re drenched at the end of it,” he says. As a busy dad, he likes the time efficiency of high-intensity interval training. He built a simple home gym in his garage and prefers to work out there rather than with a trainer. It just got a little crazy and your body is going, ‘What’s going on?’”
“There was a period there where I was losing 40lb for Normal Heart and then putting on 20lb for Magic Mike. This isn’t the first time Mr Bomer has had to dramatically change shape for a role. And he had to “lose a lot of weight” to portray a character with a congenital heart defect who didn’t eat during the week. He says he could hardly breathe in some scenes and had to practise the Alexander Technique in order to maintain good posture and deliver his lines.
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The double-breasted suits in this series were tailored to Mr Bomer’s ribcage in order to create the right silhouette. “What she did for menswear with Mad Men was pretty much a sea change in terms of men dressing up a bit more,” he says. Mr Bomer says “the pilot was the most expensive pilot Sony have ever made”, not least because of the flawless 1930s wardrobe, designed by Ms Janie Bryant, who famously created Don Draper and Roger Sterling’s razor-sharp looks. (“Oh my gosh! I had my Phil Collins phase, believe me.”) It is a sumptuous production. It did not stop him landing the romantic leading man role in The Last Tycoon, playing opposite Ms Lily Collins, daughter of a certain Mr Phil Collins. The artists that I want to work with don’t have stigmas anyway.” You want to be able to have complete freedom over your identity.” Does he believe he has missed out on roles since coming out? “I’ve had some rough experiences, but I’ve also been blessed with generosity of spirit and artistic openness that maybe some people won’t ever get to experience because of who I am, so I can’t complain.
“As an artist, the last thing you want is one label to identify you. “I think labels are a dangerous thing,” he says. He is, however, understandably keen not to be continually referred to as a “gay actor”, believing the label to be unnecessary and unhelpful, perpetuating the stigma. But his “first real acting role” was to spend several years as a young man growing up in a loving, conservative Christian family in Bible Belt Texas pretending he was straight. In a demonstration of his range, that same year he won a Golden Globe for his moving performance as HIV/AIDS sufferer Felix Turner in the HBO film The Normal Heart. But for Mr Matt Bomer, who plays Stahr in the 10-episode adaptation of Mr F Scott Fitzgerald’s unfinished novel, the opposite is true.Īfter making his name on US TV, most notably as a suave conman in 81 episodes of White Collar and then in 13 episodes of American Horror Story, Mr Bomer found international recognition in 2012 playing a ripped male stripper who drives women crazy in Magic Mike and its equally wild 2015 sequel Magic Mike XXL. That’s the experience of Monroe Stahr, the central character in Amazon Prime’s lavish new period drama The Last Tycoon, a wunderkind studio executive who ditches his Jewish name (Milton Sternberg) and heritage in order to metamorphose into a power player in the golden age of cinema. To become a star in Hollywood and realise the American Dream, you often have to adopt a persona and leave your true self behind. How the Magic Mike actor conquered Hollywood on his own terms.
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