Cooper as Latif Yahia (left) and Uday Hussein (right) in The Devil's Double (Photo credit : Sofie Van Mieghem)
Far removed from supporting roles in the likes of An Education, The Duchess or song-and-dance fare a la Mamma Mia!, graphic gangster flick The Devil's Double is strictly, indisputably Dominic Cooper's movie.
As much as it owes to director Lee Tamahori's frenetic, super-slick style and the visual trickery it took to allow Cooper to play two roles, the based-on-true-events story of a soldier named Latif being plucked from the front lines to serve as Uday Hussein's body double (or fiday which translates to "bullet catcher") is brought to life thanks to the 33-year-old Brit's substantial talent, on display here as he creates two compelling, distinct characters and appears in nearly every frame of the violent, abrasive, absorbing film about one man extinguishing himself to become someone he despises.
We recently caught up with Cooper while he was in Toronto to talk about The Devil's Double and found out why he became obsessed with the film's story and how it was oddly freeing to play a sociopath.
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