The LA Times has a fantastic interview with Armie, and you can read a bit of it below.

Since his dual performance in “The Social Network” as real-life Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Armie Hammer has vaulted onto the A-list — Hollywood suddenly can’t get enough of the tall, graceful 25-year-old who’s the great-grandson of oil magnate and baking soda tycoon Armand Hammer. He next appears as the Prince opposite Julia Roberts’ evil Queen in “Mirror Mirror,” and he’s about to set out for New Mexico to take up trick riding and gunplay as “The Lone Ranger” alongside Johnny Depp’s Tonto.

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The way you portray Tolson, he’s subtly assertive about his identity as a gay man, but he’s also repressed and controlled, as the times required. You ride the tension of those extremes. Did Eastwood direct you to do that?

I didn’t meet Eastwood until we started filming. It came from my research, which suggested that from childhood, Tolson was aware of who he was and was doing everything he could to refine and control who he became. He couldn’t control who he felt things for, so he controlled everything else. But he was also very smart and confident; he was a hotshot, and he could get away with things. Like putting on his FBI application that he had no interest in women — that was brazen, for back then.

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