The Normal Heart's Mark Ruffalo, Julia Roberts, Matt Bomer & Jim Parsons Team Up on the Cover of EW

Larry Kramer’s heartbreaking and passionate drama The Normal Heart will lead a small screen revolution on May 25, when a new adaptation directed by Ryan Murphy premieres on HBO. The TV movie features a seriously star-studded cast, including Mark Ruffalo as Ned, Matt Bomer as Felix, Julia Roberts as Emma and Jim Parsons as Tommy. The quartet is making a splash on the newest issue of Entertainment Weekly, which will hit newsstands May 9. “It’s such a rich, important, cool part of American culture,” Ruffalo told EW of the groundbreaking AIDS drama. “It’s as cool as the hippies; it’s as cool as the civil rights movement. It has its heroes. It has its f*cking drama.” The cover also includes a collection of shocking statistics: Did you know 60 percent of young Americans living with HIV today don’t know they’re infected? To find out more, pick up the new issue of EW, then catch The Normal Heart on HBO.