As part of the 12 Days of Deadpool, 20th Century Fox released two new photos of Colossus, while also revealing (via EW) the actor responsible for bringing the seven-foot metallic mutant to life.
Colossus, whom we've briefly seen in the Deadpool trailer, is voiced and partly motion captured by 37-year-old Serbian actor Stefan Kapicic. Although probably not a household name, the actor has appeared in some pretty popular shows, including 24 and The Event.
Speaking to EW, Kapicic explained the process that went into portraying Colossus, including how he honored the character's Russian heritage and why director Tim Miller actually used two different actors to play the part.
"Tim Miller’s idea of Colossus was to be bigger and stronger than everyone else, so for the motion capture they needed an extremely tall man. I’m 6-foot-4, but he wanted Colossus to be over 7 feet, so they used a stunt double to recreate his height, and he did very good job there. Tim also wanted Colossus to sound as close as possible to the comic book character’s background, so he had me to come in, since my voice was what he envisioned for Colossus, who has an authentic Russian accent. My character’s voice gives him the past history as Piotr Rasputin once you hear him speak. This made him the most authentic to the original idea of the comic book character.
We had been trying all sorts of depths, both vocal and emotional, while playing with variations of Russian accents to give a range to the role until we finally got what Tim wanted. Giving the voice and expressions to a character is giving it a soul. It is a specific type of acting and it must be precise as it has to bring a character to life. Colossus’ voice is not much different than mine as Tim loved my natural color and range of voice, so we kept it and worked more on the Russian accent. The best note I received was to be authentic."
Deadpool is set to open in theaters on February 12th, but a new trailer is expected to release on Christmas Day.
