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 Dominic Cooper
Interview by: Rocco Passafuime
Dominic Cooper is one of the world’s more relatively unknown actors. He is focused not so much with image or money, but the perfection of his craft in the patient hopes that he’ll soon enter a much wider realm of possibility and success. For two years, Cooper has been solely known in the world of theater for his work in the very successful English play The History Boys, which he has done not only in London’s West End, but on Broadway. Now, Dominic is cast in Alan Bennett and Nicholas Hynter’s film adaptation of the successful play as class stud, Dakin. When he first learned that playwright Alan Bennett was planning to put together a film version with himself as screenwriter, Cooper jumped at the opportunity take part. He revealed, however, that the initial reading for him and his fellow cast mates did not go very well. “Alan thought we were all terrible,” he recollects. “He must have trusted Nick so much as his director as they worked together so many times that Nick managed to persuade him that we were wrote for it.” Once Dom got the chance to prove himself, he said he found the transition from acting the character on stage to on film a welcome challenge. “It was scary,” Cooper reveals. “But I think it was the most comfortable situation you can be in as an actor, having done it for a year, knowing it that well, and having such faith and trust in your director. It was a time to be able to really experiment with the work on a set that you felt so comfortable on. Such wonderful writing, in a way, lent itself to the screen because you could become much more intimate and delicate with those moments that you had.” Dominic was comfortable doing an adaptation of a play he had worked on stage for two years straight because he learned such a great deal while playing his role. “It was so rewarding,” Cooper recalls. “We discovered stuff continually. On our last performance, we were discovering new moments, new laughs in the scenes. We wouldn’t have been able to do it for that long if the writing wasn’t that way.” Dom went into great lengths to explain the difference between acting The History Boys on stage and in front of the camera. “As an actor, on stage, and in front of a live audience, I learned is just the tiniest of moments that you put into a phrase or into a bit of dialogue and how that changes the reaction of an audience,” he explains. “What was difficult about making the film was making that choice there and then, deciding which way you were going to do it. We didn’t do many takes of scenes. We did a few scenes in the space of one day. We had to completely trust Nick that he knew the performances that well that he could choose the correct one.” Dom expressed that there was much ... |
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