Dominic Cooper joins ridiculously good-looking 'Captain America' cast
Thankfully, Marvel has found an attractive young man in Dominic Cooper to join its "Captain America" franchise -- as Chris Evans in the lead and Sebastian Stan clearly aren't enough.
News comes from a Cannes interview that Cooper, star of "Mama Mia!" and "An Education," will join the ensemble playing a young version of Captain America's father -- who will age into "Mad Men's" silver fox John Slattery.
Cooper will join Evans' love interest Hayley Atwell, Samuel L. Jackson and Hugo Weaving in the film, slated for a 2011 release.
The London native is currently on a break from his real-life leading lady, Amanda Seyfried. How nice, he's keeping busy with work.
-- Matt Donnelly
Photo: Dominic Cooper at the Cannes International Film Festival promoting his flick "Tamara Drewe." Credit: Getty Images
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sounds like a beautiful cast. hayley atwell is hot and talented-looks like kate mera.dominic is awesome actor-cant wait til he gets a lead role-maybe with another excellent actress like kate, natalie portman, rachel mcadams-someone of the same caliber of talent that hes worked with before like amanda and kiera but where hes the lead-hes so deserving-hope this skyrockets him-they made good choice.
Posted by: guest | May 25, 2010 at 03:37 PM
He'll actually play Howard Stark (Tony Stark/Iron Man's father). Howard as mentioned in Iron Man 2 was one of the founders of SHIELD, seeing as Captain America will take place in WW2, Cooper would be playing a younger version of the Howard Stark we saw in Iron Man 2.
Posted by: Aaron | May 25, 2010 at 05:29 PM