Matt Bomer has a natural charm that often shows up in the characters he plays

Matt Bomer has taken on challenging roles that have allowed him to reveal other layers to his leading-man abilities.

In the 2014 TV movie The Normal Heart , Bomer played a closeted New York Times reporter who started a relationship with Mark Ruffalo just as the AIDS crisis was starting.

He lost 50 pounds for the role and earned his first Emmy nomination for Fellow Travelers .

I feel like the best actor should always get the role, however they identify themselves or whether they choose to identify themselves.

I was lucky to work with Diahann Carroll on White Collar , who was the first woman of color to have her own prime time drama series.

The actor says he's grateful that we're in a time where he would even get to see the script and have an opportunity to play the role.

There was a long time in my career that I was really always trying to chase a perfect take, and just get it right. Then I realized that life wasn’t that way and I got to work with a lot of great artists like Bradley Cooper and Mark Ruffalo who are always finding something new in a scene. That sounds like a nice place to be. Sometimes you just come home hot with shame and just exhausted, but it’s what makes the work interesting to me..