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Dominic Cooper on Captain America and what his mom will think of his new movie about Uday Hussein
Last week at Sundance, Lionsgate snatched up The Devil’s Double, Lee Tamahori’s fast-paced, mostly true thriller about Saddam Hussein’s son Uday and Latif Yahia, the decent man forced to be his body double. The movie is made by the riveting performance of Dominic Cooper (An Education, The History Boys) in both roles. Tamahori said he cast Cooper specifically because he didn’t want an A-list actor clouding audiences’ perceptions. But with this movie, along with upcoming appearances in Captain America and My Week With Marilyn, opposite Michelle Williams, Cooper will soon likely vault to a higher status. Vulture met up with him at Bing Bar on Main Street in Park City.
Have you been sitting through the screenings of your movie?
I sat through the premiere in that ridiculously huge theater [Eccles Theater, 1,200 seats]. It was terrifying, actually. I’ve never done a part of that size and I felt … I felt responsible, in a way. But it was very, very exciting. And there was an odd silence at the end. People did not know what on earth to make of these scenes that had played out before them.
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