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8 Great Double Performances From A Single Actor

It's quite difficult for an actor to convincingly play one movie character, with all their faults, tics and foibles. Even the greatest actors in the world don't always get the complexities of a performance right, even with all their attention focused on the part. Imagine the difficulty, then, of one actor facing down the challenge of playing not one character, but two, in the exact same goddamn movie.

4) Dominic Cooper In The Devil’s Double

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The Devil’s Double made just a paltry worldwide total of $4.8 million, on a budget of $19 million, when it was released back in 2011. It makes sense – the film’s ‘star,’ Dominic Cooper, isn’t really a star, and certainly not someone to bank a whole movie on.

What audiences missed though by giving this bizarre Uday Hussein sort-of-biopic a wide berth was a turn by Cooper that by all means could have made him into a star.

Or, rather, two turns – Cooper plays both Hussein and his body double Latif Yahia, the Iraqi soldier who bore a likeness to Saddam’s son and was forced into the sociopathic playboy’s employ as his professional lookalike.

Lee Tamahori’s movie is an uneasy mix of black comedy and true-to-life horror, but Cooper excels as the innocent, cynical Yahia, and the unpredictable Uday, a monstrous figure he plays like a spoiled child who was never required to grow up.

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