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Matt Bomer Says He Lost Out on Playing Superman After Being Outed as Gay

Matt Bomer was allegedly supposed to play Superman in J.J. Abrams' 'Superman: Flyby.'

Bomer even exited CBS soap opera “Guiding Light” amid the audition process for “Superman: Flyby.” “On ‘Guiding Light,’ there was a killer in town, […] so the executive producer, very kindly, wanted to free me up just in case the [Superman] job came through. Instead, Bryan Singer’s “Superman Returns” was released in 2006 and starred fellow soap opera alum Brandon Routh as the titular superhero.

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