DiCaprio and Eastwood Talk About Hoover’s Sexuality, Cross Dressing

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DiCaprio and Eastwood Talk About Hoover's Sexuality, Cross Dressing
Written by: Bridgette P. LaVictoire on November 7, 2011.

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Clint Eastwood have decided to open up about a rather sensitive issue with regards to the making of the movie J. Edgar. The biopic of the first head of the FBI has had some controversy surrounding it, especially about Hoover's cross dressing and his possible homosexuality. They opened up to The Hollywood Reporter.

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With regards to the cross dressing, the two stated that "Along the way, people accused him of that. But nobody knows how accurate it was. Evidently the woman who accused him of that, her husband had been sent to the slammer by Hoover. So you don't know how much was vengeance."