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Mary and George is now streaming on the Stars app. Hi everyone and thank you for tuning into the 540th episode of the

Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter Podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg

and my guest today is a tremendously talented and dashingly handsome actor and producer who made his name on the USA Network drama

series White Collar between 2009 and 2014 and in films such as 2012's Magic Mike.

He later won Golden Globe and Critics Choice Awards

and was nominated for an Emmy for the 2014 HBO movie adaptation

of Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart. And most recently he has

garnered some of the best reviews of his career for his portrayal of Hawkins

Hawk Fuller, a closeted State Department employee in a secret relationship with another man spanning the 1950s

through the 1980s on the 2023 Showtime limited series fellow travelers on which he also

served as an executive producer, and for which he has already

won a Peabody Award and been nominated for Golden Globe SAG Critics Choice and People's Choice

Awards with an Emmy nomination likely to follow.

Matt Bomer.

Over the course of our conversation, the 46-year-old and I discussed his own journey as a gay

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