The play debuted in 1968 and deals with a group of gay men who have come together for a birthday party in New York City. His work in "The Boys in the Band" helped him get ready to play Trainor. ![]() He says the change to the more sombre version was a result of how differently the directors approached the role.īefore taking on the role in Doom Patrol, Bomer was best known for playing Neal Caffrey on the cable series "White Collar," and for roles in "Normal Heart" and "Magic Mike II." The Carnegie Mellon University graduate has always had a passion for theatre, appearing in "Spring Awakening" and "Grey Gardens." Bomer was working on Broadway in "The Boys in the Band" when he got the call about "Doom Patrol." When the Doom Patrol was introduced in an episode of Titans (also on DC Universe), Trainor was energetic, enthusiastic and outgoing. "I really like both aspects of this because, to me, this is a character who, at the beginning of the series, hadn't found his voice at all and, over the course of the first season, it is really about him finding that voice."īomer's had to find two very different voices. It's a trickier task to be more withholding and withdrawn. "It's one thing to get to do a voice where you get to be big and more gregarious. "One of the challenges of the voice aspect of this is that it is a very reserved, internalized character whose pathos is very internal," Bomer says. The two actors get together anytime Bomer is on set to talk about the character, but most of the time Bomer records his lines and Zuk does the work in front of the cameras. Once the bandages go on, Bomer only provides Trainor's voice, while Matthew Zuk takes care of the physical part of the performance. When Trainor is shown in scenes before the accident that changed him, Bomer plays the character onscreen. "Doom Patrol" presents Bomer with an interesting acting exercise. It was the way the producers described the role as an all-American type character on the outside and, on the inside, one part Elephant Man and one part Montgomery Cliff that sold him on the project. ![]() Following the mysterious disappearance of The Chief, the reluctant heroes are called to action by Cyborg (Joivan Wade).īomer read comic books while growing up in Texas, but he was more of a fan of mainstream DC characters such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. The thing that connects them is each suffered a horrible accident that gave them superhuman abilities while at the same time leaving them emotionally and physically scarred and disfigured. ![]() The group also includes Cliff Steele/Robotman (Brendan Fraser), Rita Farr/Elasti-Woman (April Bowlby) and Crazy Jane (Diane Guerrero). Trainor is just one member of the Doom Patrol team, brought together by Niles "The Chief" Caulder (Timothy Dalton). He needs to find a way to accept all the parts of himself that were unacceptable in the past." "He eventually becomes what he has always felt like he was on the inside. "He's this guy who is a golden boy on the outside but, on the inside, has always felt like a monster," Bomer says. When the new Doom Patrol series started in 1987, at first it was understood that Larry was dead, and the negative entiry that had been his powers was now bonded. Then after a crash, he hides his disfigured face behind a layer of bandages as Negative Man. But it’s exciting to see that they are already expanding that world already as the filming of Season 1 is getting ready to happen.LOS ANGELES - A major attraction for Matt Bomer to take on the role of Larry Trainor - also known as Negative Man - in the new DC Universe series "Doom Patrol" is that he's a man who never shows his real face to the public.Īs '60s all-American test pilot Trainor, he could not reveal that he is gay. ![]() It remains to be seen what roles they will play in the overall story of Doom Patrol Season 1. The breakdown calls for the actor to have a German accent. If youre a fan of the Doom Patrol, then why not dress up as one of its most interesting characters, Negative Man Larry Trainor, also known as Negative Man. He is best known as Paraguay’s village cobbler, secretly is a scientist who is involved with conducting experiments. A founding member of the Doom Patrol, Negative Man first appeared in the pages of My Greatest Adventure 80 back in 1963. The character is described as a Caucasian German man in his 40s-60s who used to be a Nazi. She is described as a distant woman with two children and is now living with the fact that her husband died in a plane crash. Next we have Sheryl Trainor, a female in her 30s who is definitely related to Larry. Something else to know about him is that Bowers appears to be a LGBT character as he is described as having a romantic relationship with another male. Described as a blue-collar ground crew chief for the Air Force, Bowers was a witness to a horrible accident during testing. Now, let’s take a look at the characters they are casting, starting with John Bowers, who is a male of any ethnicity in his early 30s.
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