In an interview with GQ, Clint Eastwood and Leonardo DiCaprio under-emphasize the gay aspect of tyrannical FBI director J. Edgar Hoover’s reign in their upcoming biopic, J. Edgar, E Online is reporting. Considering that its screenwriter, Dustin Lance Black, won an Oscar for his screenplay to another gay bio, Milk, their comments sound very disrespectful. Sigh. Well, we still plan to see it. It comes out Nov. 9.
This “article” distorts the facts. It assumes that Black had a very gay script to begin with. Black has publicly stated he doesn’t know what was in Hoover’s heart, that is whether or not he was gay. Unless you have a copy of Black’s script which proves otherwise then Black’s remarks should stand: “It’s not difficult to find the script and the script that’s out there is the script that we’ve all been working on.”