Matt Bomer Will Star Opposite Bradley Cooper in Netflix's Leonard Bernstein Biopic MAESTRO
Matt Bomer is set to star alongside Bradley Cooper in his upcoming Leonard Bernstein biopic that’s set up at Netflix titled Maestro. Bomer will take on the role of one of Bernstein’s lovers described as “a clarinet player with whom Bernstein had a brief relationship.”
Cooper not only stars in the film but he’s also directing it from a screenplay that he co-wrote with Josh Singer. Bernstein, who passed away in 1990 at age 72, was married to artist Felicia Montealegre and they had three children together. But, after Bernstein’s death, his wife acknowledged that he was gay and had sexual relationships with men.
Carey Mulligan is set to play Bernstein’s wife in the film. Cooper has been working with the Bernstein family for three years developing the film and will tell the “complex love story of Leonard and Felicia, a story that spans over 30 years–from the time they met in 1946 at a party and continuing through two engagements, a 25 year marriage, and three children: Jamie Bernstein, Alexander Bernstein and Nina Bernstein Simmons.”
To give you an idea of their “complex relationship,” the report shares that at one point, “Bernstein left Montealegre for a male radio station manager in 1976 but returned to the marriage the next year to care for his wife after she was diagnosed with lung cancer.”
When previously talking about the film, Cooper shared: “AII 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.”
Cooper will start shooting the film in May.
Source: Variety