Dominic Cooper found latest role challenging
'Mamma Mia!' and soon to be 'Captain America: The First Avenger' star Dominic Cooper found it difficult portraying Saddam Hussein's son and his doppelganger in new thriller 'The Devil's Double' - because the two men had completely different personalities.
He said "It's quite a horrible part. It was a difficult challenge, trying to understand who this guy (Hussein) was and why he did such unbelievably terrible things, and then to play this innocent guy (Yahia), who he forced at gunpoint to be his body double."
Yahia, who wrote the book the film is based on, was recruited to pretend to be Hussein from the age of 12, and was even made to undergo painful cosmetic procedures to enhance the likeness between the pair.
Cooper insists the roles have been his toughest to date - because he struggled to grasp how the two men could have grown up to be so different.