‘J. Edgar’ Update: Ed Westwick In, Charlize Theron Out, Possibly Moving To ‘Alien Prequel?’
By Germain Lussier/Jan. 10, 2011 8:00 pm EST
But as the Oscar-winning director loses one actor, he gains another. Gossip Girl’s Ed Westwick has signed to play a “major supporting role” in the film as an FBI agent who is tasked with writing Hoover’s memoir. Read more about all of this after the jump.
According to Vulture, the news of Theron playing Helen Gandy in J. Edgar was such a major misunderstanding, the actress actually had to personally apologize to Eastwood for the confusion.
Back to J. Edgar. Westwick’s casting in this role illuminates even more of the subject matter in the film. The casting of Damon Herriman last month already seemed to give us an idea of what Dustin Lance Black’s script specifically entails and now Westwick’s role, which is described as follows by Deadline, does the same.
One assumes that means he learns about Hoover’s secret homosexual escapades with his friend played by Armie Hammer.
A clean cut operative with writing skill. Once Hoover discovers he can write, he conscripts Agent Smith to write Hoover’s biography, until Smith gets a little too close to the truth.
The intrigue never stops. Do you think Westwick is a good fit for J. Edgar? What about Theron leaving the project potentially for the Alien prequel?
