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"  For Matt Bomer, making the HBO film The Normal Heart was the culmination of his entire career. In the film, which came out last month, the actor played Felix Turner, a New York Times reporter who covered the AIDS health crisis in the early &amp;#039;80s. The performance scored Bomer a Critics&amp;#039; Choice Television Award nomination, and it&amp;#039;s a good thing he flew all the way from the New York set of White Collar just for the night to attend the ceremony, because he won. Still, while Bomer was grateful to be honored, he was more grateful to have finally gotten the sort of role he&amp;#039;s always dreamed of. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m on cloud nine and so thankful and so grateful,&amp;quot; Bomer said. &amp;quot;And mostly just happy for the film. It&amp;#039;s a story that I&amp;#039;ve loved for so long and to be recognized tonight is a dream come true. I read the play for the first time when I was 13 and for it to be given the voice it was given by HBO is the culmination of so many people&amp;#039;s work. It&amp;#039;s the best scenario we could hope for.&amp;quot;  When asked how long he&amp;#039;s been waiting for a role like this one, Bomer, who has appeared in flicks like Magic Mike and In Time, was quick to answer. &amp;quot;My whole career,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s so rare. I think I became an actor because I read plays like this by Brecht and Shaw. Plays that educated me and challenged my influences and enlightened me. Suddenly you go out into the professional world and you&amp;#039;re thin-sliced. You&amp;#039;re categorized and it&amp;#039;s rare that you get a chance to be a part of something like this that hopefully has some type of social resonance. I&amp;#039;ve been waiting a long time. I just prayed every day that I would tell their story as truthfully as possible.&amp;quot; Since the release of The Normal Heart, the actor has gotten a lot of feedback, both from those who experienced the AIDS crisis firsthand and from a new generation who is just learning the back story now. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s been really varied,&amp;quot; Bomer told us. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s an older generation who&amp;#039;s wanted to share pictures and stories with me, and it&amp;#039;s been such a unique and distinct privilege for me to get to hear them and be present with them and what they want to share. And there&amp;#039;s a younger generation that expresses that they didn&amp;#039;t really understand what was going on. They kind of knew about it, vaguely, but didn&amp;#039;t understand just how harsh and unjust the situation really was.&amp;quot; Going forward, Bomer really hopes to find more gigs like this one. &amp;quot;I have some jobs I have to finish,&amp;quot; he admitted. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m obligated, contractually or morally. And then after that I really hope I get to select roles that pay homage to getting to be a part of this one.&amp;quot; But will he be in the sequel to Magic Mike, which is coming out next year? &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s the game plan,&amp;quot; Bomer said. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m here right now but maybe in a month or so I&amp;#039;ll be working on some dance moves.&amp;quot; Related: Taylor Kitsch Wants You to Know He&amp;#039;s Not Tim Riggins Anymore Related: Matt Bomer: Catch Him If You Can "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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