Stefan Kapičić (; born 1 December 1978) is a Serbian
[ actor best known for his role voicing ]Colossus
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in the Deadpool franchise. He is also one of three members of the Council for Film Industry of Montenegro
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Early life
Kapičić was born 1 December 1978 in Cologne
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, West Germany
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, the son of Slobodanka "Beba" Žugić, a Montenegrin actress, and Dragan Kapičić
Dragan Kapičić ( sr-cyr, Драган Капичић; 7 August 1948 – 24 June 2024) was a Serbian professional basketball player and executive.
Club career
Kapičić played with Crvena zvezda, in his hometown of Belgrade, in the Yugoslav ...
, a retired Serbian basketball player. His father played for Saturn Köln during that time. At three years of age the family returned to SFR Yugoslavia
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. His grandfather Jovo Kapičić bought him his first comic book when he was six years old, which sparked what he called an "ongoing love" in a 2015 interview about his role in ''Deadpool
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''Entertainment Weekly
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''. He studied acting at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade
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. He speaks Serbian, English, German
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and Russian
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Career
Kapičić played the role of his own father in the 2015 film '' Bićemo prvaci sveta'' (''We Will Be World Champions'') about the Yugoslavian national basketball team
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which won the 1970 FIBA World Championship
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By 2015, Kapičić had accumulated more than 80 roles in television, film, and theater. He made it to the second round of a secret casting process for the X-Man Colossus
Colossus, Colossos, or the plural Colossi or Colossuses, may refer to:
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in the superhero film ''Deadpool
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'', learning what the production was only after he passed that round. Working with first-time director Tim Miller in Los Angeles, Kapičić did 120 takes during his third call of auditions, stretching the session an additional eight hours beyond its intended four-hour duration, before flying back to Dubrovnik, Croatia to perform ''Romeo and Juliet
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''. Kapičić, a self-described "comic book geek" who considered Deadpool
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one of his favorite characters, was especially delighted when he learned he won the role, taking over from Daniel Cudmore, who had played the role in the ''X-Men'' films. Kapičić was selected because Miller wanted his version of Colossus, who is Russian in the comics, to have a Russian accent. The 6-foot-4 Kapičić portrayed the 7-and-a-half-foot tall character through a combination of voice work and motion capture
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, completing filming in mid-December 2015, eight weeks before the film's 12 February 2016 release date.[
In 2023, he appeared as Olgaren in '' The Last Voyage of the Demeter''.
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Personal life
In December 2015, Kapičić became engaged to Croatian actress Ivana Horvat. They were married in 2017.
Filmography
Film
Television
Serbian dubs
Video
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games
References
External links
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1978 births
Living people
21st-century Serbian male actors
Serbian male film actors
Serbian male television actors
Serbian people of Montenegrin descent
Male actors from Cologne
Male actors from Belgrade