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So Leonardo DiCaprio and Armie Hammer shot a big ole kissing scene last week for the Clint Eastwood biopic J Edgar – a movie based around the former FBI director’s life - in which DiCaprio stars as Hoover, while Hammer plays his protégé and rumoured lover Clyde Tolson.

A source told E! News: “It was on Friday when they had their kissing scene, and it was very passionate”.

“[They did] more [takes] than Clint normally does, they wanted to make it right…It’s a more involved scene than just the kissing…It was so sexy.”

Screenwriter Dustin Lance recently responded to reports that Eastwood chose the film specifically because it didn’t have a gay angle, saying:

“I think [Eastwood is] referring to the fact that he’s not going into the stereotypes of who Hoover was because they are clownish, they are comic book and they reek of homophobia and he’s not going to do that. I agree with that. It won’t be going into anything that is a gay stereotype, especially that was used in that day to bash gay men. It won’t be going into that because it’s not accurate and it’s not true. It will deal with sexuality in a far more human, realistic way.

Sophie Taylor – Film Writer, Showbiz-i