It has taken many, many years for Larry Kramer’s play The Normal Heart to come together as a feature film but finally it is happening with Ryan Murphy as director.
The movie details the rise of HIV/AIDS in New York’s gay community in the 1980s and won a Tony Award last year for best revival of a play.
(Kramer famously slammed Barbra Streisand who held the rights for many years and she has defended herself against his harsh words)
Mark Ruffalo had already been announced in the lead role of Ned Weeks and now comes word that White Collar hunk Matt Bomer will also be in the cast.
Bomer will portray Felix Turner, a gay fashion journalist who becomes Weeks’ boyfriend and contracts the disease. Bomer will be stepping into the shoes that won John Benjamin Hickey a Tony Award last year.
Bomer, whose star is rising higher than ever, also has a role in the male stripper film Magic Mike to be released in June. That’s a face – and body – we want to see on the big screen!
Other Normal Heart cast members just announced: Alec Baldwin as Weeks’ brother, (Not yet OUT) Jim Parsons as a gay activist and member of gay men’s health crisis group and Julia Roberts as one of the only doctors in New York talking the new disease seriously.
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