Back in March the rumor was floated that Clint Eastwood wanted Leo DiCaprio to star as J. Edgar Hoover in Dustin Lance Black’s screenplay about the former FBI director.
While discussing his upcoming Christopher Nolan thriller “Inception” today, DiCaprio confirmed earlier reports that he’s hard at work on a biopic of notorious FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
“I am talking to Clint Eastwood about playing J. Edgar Hoover who had his hand in some of the most scandalous moments in American history,” DiCaprio says. “Everything from the Vietnam war to and Dillinger to Martin Luther King and JFK. So, it’s about the secret life of J. Edgar Hoover.”