June 19, 2012 07:06 PM PDT

Matt Bomer has been a unequivocally bustling man. The White Collar star has a film opening shortly – we might have listened of a small “independent” plan called Magic Mike – though he isn’t forgetful his TV roots.

In further to his heading purpose as criminal male Neal Caffrey on a clean-cut USA Network hit, Bomer found time during his interregnum to film a guest mark on a decidedly opposite uncover – a low-pitched comedy Glee – giving him dual shots during an Emmy nomination. Here, a actor talks to TVLine about a Emmys’ insusceptibility to USA Network shows, his favorite moments from White Collar‘s many new deteriorate and stretching his comedy muscles. He also reveals since large shade success won’t ever stop him from donning Neal’s impeccably stylish suits.

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TVLINE | Do we see something like Magic Mike and a flourishing film career as a certain or a interruption to your Emmy chances — as good as to White Collar‘s future?
It’s always good to get your face out there, generally if you’re operative with somebody like [Magic Mike director] Steven Soderbergh. we don’t cruise that hurts. we positively don’t cruise it’ll harm a show. The good thing about removing to do a wire array is we’re on for 6 months and we’re off for 6 months. I’ve been perplexing to use my interregnum to work with filmmakers like [In Time director/writer] Andrew Niccol and Steven Soderbergh that we unequivocally trust in, in smaller roles, rather than holding a lead in something large and studio and splashy – not that Magic Mike hasn’t turn studio and splashy. [Laughs] But when we sealed on to do it, it was a $5 million eccentric movie. we don’t cruise it’s a bad thing to go out there and plea yourself as an actor.

TVLINE | We don’t have to worry about we withdrawal White Collar any time soon, right?
No, we cruise White Collar my home base. I’m so propitious to get to play a impression that’s unequivocally multifaceted and a writers take risks on and never get into a undisturbed routine with. They’re always severe themselves and, thusly, me as an actor. As prolonged as they continue to do that, I’m happy. we adore my pursuit on White Collar. we won’t be withdrawal it any time soon.

TVLINE | USA Network shows tend to be created off when it comes to Emmys, since they’re deliberate lighter fare. Do we cruise that’s a satisfactory characterization?
I don’t cruise it’s satisfactory because, to me, they are thespian shows with elements of humor. As prolonged as that doesn’t get overly quirky or too hokey, that’s a approach life is to me. we don’t know anybody who walks by life all a time in a doldrums, constantly critical and morose. But that’s turn what we generalize as drama. I’m unequivocally propitious to get to work on a uncover that has elements of humor. But when you’re comparing that to – we won’t list anything privately – a lot of a shows that are flattering many true play a whole time, it runs a risk of being categorized as something else. But we don’t unequivocally cruise it is.

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TVLINE | Neal Caffrey has to be one of a funnest characters to play.
He is. It’s so rare, generally as a younger actor, to find a purpose where it’s not usually one-dimensional and it’s not usually a batch heading man. He is smart, intelligent, slick. He has beauty underneath fire. He’s glorious underneath pressure. He’s on point. He’s banishment on all cylinders. But during a same time, he’s unequivocally a 4-year-old. He has terrible incentive control. He creates unequivocally undiscerning decisions, generally when it comes to anything romantically-inclined. He is a destroyed regretful to a fault. … It’s a genuine dream of a purpose to get to play. More and more, as we play a purpose over a years, we come to find so many things in my life that we suspicion were fatuous or stupid during a time, that we might have complicated or review about or practiced, led adult to this event for me.

TVLINE | Like what? Is there something specific?
Everything from dance classes during conservatory assisting me memorize quarrel choreography to being spooky with a Rat Pack for a duration time to amatory a aesthetics of a ’60s suits and European films like La Dolce Vita and [actor] Alain Delon and Le Samouraï. So many small particular things prepared me for this part. Playing athletics, personification a lot of opposite sports, going to play school…. we was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, so we finished adult being flattering normal during everything. But for a purpose like this where they’ll chuck a kitchen penetrate during we in a 25th hour, it helps to have been kind of average, if that creates any sense. [Laughs]

TVLINE | When we put on those suits and travel a streets of New York, what goes by your head?
[Laughs] Whatever I’m personification in a scene. we spent weeks in my backyard before we shot a commander reckoning out what Neal’s travel was. Finally, we got his strut down after a while, that infrequently looks like a equivocal caterer limp, we know. [Laughs] It’s one of those situations where a habit totally informs a impression and how they reason themselves in a universe and a tools of multitude he maneuvers in. He’s a peacock in a way. He’s not fearful to make eye strike with any of a ladies walking by. It’s a complicated updating of a overhanging ’60s.

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TVLINE | Looking behind during Season 3, do we have a favorite Neal impulse or episode?
I have a couple. One was removing to be destined by [co-star] Tim [DeKay], who stepped behind a camera for a initial time [for Episode 15, "Stealing Home"]. It was a genuine dream partnership to get to work with him in a opposite way. And we unequivocally desired a culmination since it was this buildup of so many things; [creator] Jeff Eastin assembled it unequivocally well. To have that stage where Neal goes before a cabinet and testifies about since he should have his leisure was unequivocally fun to get to play. And afterwards a prolonged shot that a network unequivocally courteously let us have where he’s usually sitting on a plane, and there are a thousand things using by his mind, though he doesn’t contend anything. He’s usually looking out a window. Scenes like that, [which] you’ve built adult to for so prolonged and afterwards get to play unequivocally simply rather than over-explaining or carrying to over-act or over-talk it, are unequivocally fun to do.

TVLINE | Was that an actor’s dream? You got a monologue, basically, and afterwards this extensive method that’s usually a camera on your face.
It’s intimidating. But you’ve been vital in [the character's] boots for so prolonged that half of a pursuit is guileless not usually that we know accurately what’s going by his mind, though also that partial of your pursuit is to get out of a approach and let a assembly put what they wish we to be meditative into your head.

TVLINE | You and Tim DeKay have some of a best chemistry on-screen and off. What’s your secret?
I review it to dual kids who usually strike it off on a stadium and they come over for a play date and we have to call them in 5 times for cooking since they don’t wish to stop playing. Tim has an extraordinary clarity of amusement — he creates me giggle a lot — and he understands my clarity of humor. From a initial time we review together, we totally accepted what he was bringing to a impression of Peter Burke, and we cruise he accepted what we was bringing to Neal. It was this yin-yang that felt unequivocally easy and not forced. For me, that was unequivocally critical in terms of carrying a long-term dynamic.

TVLINE | You did a guest mark on Glee during your hiatus. Was it critical to we to do something drastically opposite from White Collar?
Yeah, it was. Cooper Anderson was usually such a fun role. [Co-creators] Ryan [Murphy] and Ian [Ian Brennan] and [writer] Michael Hitchcock unequivocally gave me a present of a role. we had Eric Stoltz as a director, who’s all about removing a extract out of each stage and carrying a many fun possible. It was unequivocally critical for me to flex opposite muscles and get to do comedy.

TVLINE | What was a many beguiling partial of a process: a comedy, a dancing or a singing?
My master category stage since we accepted so many about this guy, who was so unfortunate for validation from anyone. It was fun to erect this waste temperament he had where he parses out a things he wants to hear and trust and afterwards commits to them with comprehensive conviction. Having a joining to learn these kids that a best approach to lift off a thespian stage is to “point as many as possible” and afterwards make that guileless was not usually challenging, though impossibly fun.

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