Having been steadily making movies for seven decades, collaborating with Eastwood is a wide-open window.

Edgar, Eastwood’s 2011 biopic about the longtime controversial head of the FBI, for bringing them together.

Judi Dench Was Thrilled to Work for Clint Eastwood on ‘J.

Judi Dench as Annie Hoover, looking worried, in J. Edgar

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In between these films wasJ.

Edgar, prominently the first and lone collaboration between Eastwood andLeonardo DiCaprio, playing the titularJ.

The emotional crux ofJ.

J. Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio) sits in court behind a swarm of microphones  in J. Edgar

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Edgarlies with the budding law officer’s relationship with his mother, Annie (Dench).

“When he rang me up, my voice went up several octaves,“Dench toldFemale.com.au.

“Dench was Eastwood’s first choice to play Annie.

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There’s nothing like a Dame; these movies are Dame Judi Dench’s.

Edgaras the role of a lifetime, considering where the film sits within Eastwood’s filmography.

Regardless, the opportunity to work with such a master is never to be taken for granted.J.

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As an actor, Clint Eastwood understands the psychology of performers better than anyone.

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