Movieline's intrepid video correspondent Carly Steel was front and center at L.A.'s Geffen Playhouse last night for annual fundraiser Backstage at the Geffen, where, undeterred by his legendary ball-retracting glare, she cornered Clint Eastwood. She proceeded to grill the Hollywood elder statesman on the status of the Dustin Lance Black-penned J. Edgar Hoover bio he's recently been linked to, which he confirmed to Movieline was a go. But not before work was done on his current project, Hereafter -- his second outing in a row with Matt Damon, in which you learned here first the Invictus star plays a shy factory worker trying to suppress his ability to see ghosts. Click on for the video.
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