Background
Stefan Kapičić was born December 1, 1978 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, to Montenegrin actress Slobodanka Zugić and Dragan Kapičić, retired Yugoslav and Serbian basketball player.
Stefan Kapičić was born December 1, 1978 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, to Montenegrin actress Slobodanka Zugić and Dragan Kapičić, retired Yugoslav and Serbian basketball player.
He studied acting at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade.
He speaks Serbian, English and Russian. 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-Manitoba Colossus in the superhero film Deadpool, 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 Montenegro to perform Romeo and Juliet.
Kapicic was a last minute replacement for Andre Tricoteux, and was selected by Miller in part 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 voice work, completing filming in mid-December 2015, eight weeks before the film"s February 12, 2016 release date.
In December 2015, Kapičić became engaged to Croatian actress Ivana Horvat.