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Videos || BY || 11 18 2011 1:40 PM

Exclusive: Dominic Cooper Explains How He Pulled Double Duty in The Devil's Double

Need a break from fluffy features depicting vampire weddings, cross-dressing Adam Sandler and dancing penguins? Look no further than The Devil's Double, Lee Tamahori's biographical drama about sadistic psychopath Uday Hussein (son of Saddam) and his body double, both played by Dominic Cooper. Ahead, the film's star discusses the difficulty of playing two characters in one fast-paced production.

Festivals || BY Jen Yamato || 01 28 2011 4:30 PM

The Devil's Double: The Outrageous, Over the Top Iraqi Scarface You've Been Waiting For

Tired of those run-of-the-mill biopics and staid Iraq war dramas that avoid sensationalism out of respect for their subjects? Want a peek into the orgiastic, debauched, ultra-violent underbelly of Saddam Hussein's Iraq? Director Lee Tamahori brought all that and more to an unsuspecting audience -- and conjured his own comparisons to David Fincher's The Social Network, naturally -- with The Devil's Double, the guiltiest thrill of Sundance 2011.