http://news.bostonherald.com/entertainment/movies/general/view.bg?articleid=1379500&srvc=home&position=alsoLots of actors talk about the physical rigors of playing a certain part — months of training, hours in the makeup chair, etc. — all done for the love of the role.
Leonardo DiCaprio kicked that up a notch. He endured “five, six or seven hours daily for two weeks” of having old-age prosthetics applied. He also took a 90 percent pay cut from his usual $20 million salary — all to play controversial FBI director J. Edgar Hoover in Clint Eastwood’s biopic “J. Edgar.”
“He was a crockpot of eccentricities — and we couldn’t fit them all in,” DiCaprio said. “You couldn’t write a character like J. Edgar and make it believable.
“One of the most powerful men in the country and he lived with his mother until he was 40 years old. Yes, he was a mama’s boy and incredibly repressed emotionally. Power was paramount to him and holding onto that power at all costs was the most important thing in his life.
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