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Bowie is full of tricks in new movie
Rob Singh, Evening Standard18 Oct 2006
After a hilarious cameo in TV comedy show Extras, David Bowie has taken on his first high-profile film role for a decade.
This is the first picture of the 59-year-old singer in The Prestige, a supernatural drama set in Victorian London, which had its Hollywood premiere last night.
Directed by Christopher Nolan, the man behind Memento, the film centres on two magicians (played by Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman) whose rivalry leads them to kill.
Bowie has a moustache and dyed hair to play inventor Nikola Tesla, who helps one of the magicians pull off the ultimate trick. The real Tesla was a Serbian-American who discovered the rotating magnetic field. Bowie's last big film role was as Andy Warhol in Basquiat in 1996.
In Extras, he sang about Ricky Gervais's hapless character Andy Millman. The song, Little Fat Man, is now a hit on video website YouTube.
• The Prestige is released in British cinemas on 11 November.
