Brandon Routh still mourns short-lived “Partners”

Since he burst on to the movie scene in the title role of Superman Returns in 2006, hunky Brandon Routh has had the attention of gay fans.

But his connection to that fan base has only grown since then as he has played gay characters on an episode of Will & Grace, in the movie Zack and Miri Make a Porno (his boyfriend is played by Justin Long and I loved them together) and on the short-lived CBS sitcom Partners.

‘I’ve been happy and honored to play the characters that I’ve played and really truly wished I could have played Wyatt (on Partners) a lot longer,’ he tells xfinity.com in an interview posted Thursday (12 February).

On Partners, which lasted less than one season, he played the sweet, slightly dim and very hunky live-in boyfriend of Michael Urie.

‘I had such fun with that character and working with the fabulously talented Michael Urie and David [Krumholtz] and Sophia [Bush] and Max [Mutchnick, co-creator] and David [Kohan, co-creator] and everybody,’ he says.

‘That was one of those that still, we were on the right recipe and such a good family.’

He would like to see all 13 episodes of Partners made available on DVD or digitally.

‘I get people all the time at conventions a lot say, “Oh, Partners was so great.” A lot in Canada because they got to see, I think they might have gotten a few more episodes than we (in the US) got to see. I hear from people on Twitter in South Africa where they got to see all 13 episodes, they released all of them there.’

Routh is now a regular on The CW series Arrow as Atom and says of his staunchly loyal gay fans: ‘I appreciate the support from everyone.

‘Thankfully, the world, society, is coming to a more rational thought process about sexuality.’