Matt Bomer has been captivating TV fans with his steamy scenes opposite Wicked's Jonathan Bailey in the Showtime miniseries, Fellow Travelers. And soon, he'll be seen with Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan in the Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro. But, it is a project Bomer said no to that has people talking because fans of the Magic Mike XXL actor were shocked and confused that he would turn down one of the biggest projects on the 2023 film schedule.
The upcoming release Maestro is not the only big 2023 movie that Bomer was supposed to be featured in. In fact, he was set to join Margot Robbie's Barbie, Ryan Gosling's Ken and the rest of the Barbie cast in Greta Gerwig’s billion-dollar blockbuster centered on the iconic fashion doll. The actor detailed his Barbie audition process as a potential Ken in a November 2023 interview with Vanity Fair:
