During their heyday, I was a big fan of the USA shows, so I’ve been drooling over Matt Bomer since…actually, since he was a Bryce Larkin on NBC’s Chuck. But I did love him in White Collar too! USA shows always had the most fun panels at Comic-Con. Anyway, before we even heard who was cast in Barbie, if you would have asked me who could have played Ken, Matt Bomer would have been in my top 5. Turns out Matt was thisclose to playing a Ken! During his recent appearance on The Tonight Show show, Matt shared that just like Dan Levy, Bowen Yang, and Jonathan Groff, he ultimately had to turn his role down due to other projects and the production’s strict Covid rules.
The Maestro actor appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday and revealed that he doesn’t regret passing on the Greta Gerwig-directed blockbuster, which hit theaters in July, after he’d initially auditioned to play one of the Kens.
“You made headlines this summer, which I think was very fun, for a movie that you were not in,” host Jimmy Fallon began. “Not many people do that. I mean, normally they’re in the movie.”
“I got really into it, actually,” Bomer, 46, recalled of the audition process. “I had some projects in development — I wasn’t sure if they were gonna happen, or when they were gonna happen — so I auditioned.”
Bomer said he donned “four different looks” for the audition that included “Malibu Ken” and “business suit Ken,” and had been “looking forward to” being in the film. But as the star explained to Fallon, 49, he didn’t take the role in Barbie because some of the projects he had in development “came to fruition” and he also would have needed to be away from his family for a year, “which was just too much time away.”
Asked whether he thought he should have done Barbie due to it now being “the biggest movie in the world,” Bomer replied, “No.”
“I mean, I hope I get to work with Greta someday — she’s phenomenal,” he added of Gerwig, 40. “But I think they made a perfect movie and it was cast perfectly, and I got to do Fellow Travelers and Maestro and spend time with my family.”
In November, Bomer opened up about his Barbie auditioning process to Vanity Fair. “I recorded it on my own, played a bunch of different Kens — and I dressed differently for all of them,” he told the outlet. “I recorded the lines of the other person’s dialogue on my recorder and then gave myself space to respond.”
[From People]
Hey, good for Matt that he has no regrets over ultimately choosing his family over doing the one of the biggest movies of the year. FOMO is real, but it’s also a sign of maturity to recognize your limits and be at peace with your decisions. Still, he would have made an awesome ‘business suit’ Ken. I really hope future Barbie extras or special features include all of the audition tapes of the well-known actors who weren’t able to be in the movie. I think those would be SO much fun to watch.
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