Ed Westwick has landed the role of Agent Smith in the upcoming biopic J. Edgar, which will star Leonardo DiCaprio as manipulative FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
Westwick (23), will play "a clean cut operative with writing skill and once Hoover discovers he can write, he conscripts Agent Smith to write Hoover's biography, until Agent Smith gets a little too close to the truth."
Ed is best known for his role as Chuck Bass in the CW show Gossip Girl”, as well as other film roles in “Children of Men”, “100 Feet”, and S. Darko: A Donnie Darko Tale”.
The film will be directed by Clint Eastwood and also star Armie Hammer (The Social Network) as Hoover’s secret lover.