REPORT: 'PASSION' ADDS DOMINIC COOPER TO CAST
UPDATE: COOPER NOT PART OF CASTBRITISH ACTOR LISTED MATTER-OF-FACTLY IN GERMAN REPORT FROM BERLIN FEST
MediaBiz reports from the Berlin International Film Festival (which ended this past weekend) that the German-Swiss distributor Ascot Elite Entertainment Group has picked up the theatrical and home distribution rights to
Brian De Palma's
Passion. What is particularly of note in the article, however, is that it includes British actor
Dominic Cooper as a cast member of
Passion, along with
Rachel McAdams,
Noomi Rapace, and
Karoline Herfurth. Cooper would presumably be playing the male character who becomes a sort of pawn between McAdams' CEO and Rapace's deputy. Cooper made a
big splash last year playing dual roles as
Saddam Hussein's ruthless playboy son,
Uday Hussein, and his body double in
Lee Tamahori's
The Devil's Double. That film was widely compared to De Palma's
Scarface. Its cast also included
Ludivine Sagnier, who starred with
Kristin Scott Thomas in
Alain Corneau's
Love Crime, on which De Palma's
Passion is based.
(
Big thanks to Lindsey for finding the Media Biz article!)