The duo star in the new Paramount+ romantic, political thriller series. <\/p>
Doom Patrol\u2019s Matt Bomer and Bridgerton<\/a>\u2018s Jonathan Bailey<\/a> star together in new Paramount+<\/a> series Fellow Travelers, which is based on the novel of the same name and chronicles a volatile romance between two very different men in McCarthy-era Washington DC.<\/p>\n Bomer plays opportunistic and cynical DC power player Hawkins Fuller, while Bailey plays the more idealistic Tim Laughlin, and, according to executive producer Robbie Rogers, who spoke exclusively with RadioTimes.com<\/a>, the duo had \u201celectric\u201d chemistry with one another from the off.<\/p>\n Explaining how they both became involved with the project, Rogers said: \u201cI\u2019ve known Matt for some years now just personally, and obviously I have watched his career. I loved him so much in The Normal Heart. So we all knew he could play Hawk, and when we sat with him you feel his presence.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, he\u2019s incredibly handsome, smart, but also has this vulnerable side to him that plays really well in the \u201980s. He has this mystery, and you\u2019re not quite sure what\u2019s happened over the course of his life but you can you can feel that in him when you when you meet him in the \u201980s. So he came in really early, he\u2019s been an executive producer, helped us sell the show.\u201d<\/p> Rogers continued: \u201cAnd then Jonny came on in the casting process. I had met with Johnny for My Policeman<\/a> and I\u2019m obsessed with him as an actor. He\u2019s such a great guy, and most people here in the States know of him from Bridgerton.<\/p>\n \u201cBut when I met with him with Michael Grandage for My Policeman, I could feel a youthfulness and an excitement and an energy that felt very much like Tim. So eventually, you know, Ron [Nyswaner] and Dan [Minahan] met with him and fell in love with him. And then they had a chemistry read, which was quite electric, I would say.\u201d<\/p>\n Rogers also explained how sex and power intertwine in the series, with Hawkins taking a dominant role over Tim in both the political and personal realms, as well as in sex scenes between the pair.<\/p>\n