“This is an important movie, and a really good one.”
Matt Bomer and his husband, Simon Halls, bought out a movie theater in Bomer’s Texas hometown so that anyone who wants to see “Love, Simon” can watch it for free.
“This is an important movie, and a really good one,” Bomer wrote on Instagram Thursday of the coming-out story. “I know you’ll love it so come watch for free this Sunday! #loveislove.”
The 40-year-old actor bought out the AMC Spring 10 theater, located in the town of Spring, for the 4 p.m. screening on Sunday.
“Love, Simon” stars Jennifer Garner and Josh Duhamel as parents to high school student Simon, played by Nick Robinson, who struggles to come out as gay.
Bomer told Out magazine last year that coming out to his parents was incredibly difficult given their conservative Christian values.
“There was radio silence for a long, long time, at least six months,” he said. “And then I came home and we had the blowup that I’d always feared. But we got that out of the way, and we got down to the business of figuring out how to love each other. I would say within a matter of years we started to figure it out. It was a struggle.”
