Matt Bomer has signed up to star in the Netflix biopic on music icon Leonard Bernstein ‘Maestro.’
Bomer will take on the role of one of Bernstein’s former lovers, it is rumoured that Bomer will play a clarinet player with whom Bernstein had a brief relationship. Bradley Cooper leads the cast as Bernstein. Carey Mulligan is set to portray Bernstein’s wife and artist Felicia Montealegre.
Although the fact that Bernstein was gay was never revealed while he was alive, after his death in 1990 it was revealed that Montealegre acknowledged that he was gay and had sexual relationships with men.
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Cooper will also direct making the film his follow-up to ‘A Star is Born.’ He also co-wrote the screenplay.
Cooper told Variety back in January; “All wanted was to be a conductor since I was a kid, I was obsessed with it, asked Santa Claus for a baton when I was 8. Listening to music, falling in love with it and being able to really know every single moment of a piece, like Tchaikovsky’s ‘Opus 35’ in D major, this violin concerto. I could do it as if I know everything about it without really being able to speak the language, obviously.”
Filming on the movie will commence in May 2022.
