Playwright Larry Kramer wasn’t immediately sold on Matt Bomer playing Felix, a gay man dying of AIDS, in director Ryan Murphy’s HBO adaptation of Kramer’s play, The Normal Heart.
“I said, ‘I really believe in Matt Bomer,'” Murphy recalls in the upcoming June/July issue of Out magazine. “And Larry said, ‘But he’s so beautiful! Is he too beautiful?'”
Then the two men met. “I was pretty starstruck,” Bomer said. “It was like meeting one of the Beatles.
