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" J. Edgar&amp;#039;s make-up effects have been defended by Armie Hammer. The actor - who plays J. Edgar Hoover&amp;#039;s right-hand man Clyde Tolson in the biopic - shrugged off press criticism of the film, describing its make-up as &amp;quot;incredible&amp;quot;. He told USA Today: &amp;quot;The make-up, for what it was, was incredible. It was prosthetic make-up, done in the way you would have done that make-up 50 years ago. It&amp;#039;s a throwback. It&amp;#039;s nostalgic.  &amp;quot;No one does make-up like that anymore because it doesn&amp;#039;t look the best, because it&amp;#039;s not the cheapest and it&amp;#039;s not the fastest. Clint [Eastwood], could have done it in CGI, and any other director immediately would have done it in CGI because it would have been easier, cheaper, the whole thing.&amp;quot; Hammer&amp;#039;s character ages from a man in his 20s to a man in his 70s during the course of the movie. He went on to liken the make-up process to the effects used in classic horror movies such as Frankenstein. &amp;quot;Clint&amp;#039;s people and the people who did it are the very best at what they do. But it&amp;#039;s an old way of doing make-up. I don&amp;#039;t think many actors will get the chance to do that ever again. The fact that I even got a chance to participate in something like that was awesome.&amp;quot;  J. Edgar, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role, is released in the UK on January 20, 2012. &amp;amp;gt; Leonardo DiCaprio: &amp;#039;I hope I&amp;#039;m not recognisable in J. Edgar&amp;#039;&amp;amp;gt; Leonardo DiCaprio &amp;#039;took 90% pay cut for Clint Eastwood&amp;#039;s J. Edgar&amp;#039; Watch a trailer for J. Edgar below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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