DiCaprio will wear dress for movie

Leonardo DiCaprio has joked that he will wear a dress in his next movie.

The 35-year-old actor is in talks to play FBI founding director J. Edgar Hoover in Clint Eastwood?s upcoming biopic. Leonardo is excited about the role, not least because it will explore Hoover?s rumoured penchant for cross-dressing.

"I`m talking to Clint Eastwood about playing J. Edgar Hoover. Will I wear a dress?" he laughed. "Not as of yet. We haven`t done the fittings for those!

"This movie will really explore the secret life of a man who had his hand in some of the most sort of scandalous events in American history - everything from the Vietnam war and Dillinger to Martin Luther King and JFK."

Leonardo can next be seen on the big screen in Christopher Nolan`s psychological thriller Inception. He is extremely proud of the movie, but admits he found filming very difficult because he had to complete so many dangerous stunts.

"It was tough," he explained to E! Online. "A sequence in Morocco was pretty tough because I had to run through a crowd of people.

"I felt kind of like a pinball because I was bouncing from Moroccan to Moroccan and falling into various vending machines."

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