DEADPOOL: New Actor Cast As 'Colossus'; First Official Images And Character Details Released
While it was thought that Andre Tricoteux would be playing Colossus in Deadpool, some changes have taken place and a new actor has been found to bring the iconic X-Man to life. Details on that, his interpretation, and awesome new images can be found here...
Colossus isn't making his big screen debut in Deadpool, but it kind of feels that way. After all, the practically mute version we've seen up until this point has been underwhelming to say the least, and as the official images below prove, this new take on the X-Men character looks set to be the closest to the comics yet. Talking to Entertainment Weekly, Serbian actor Stefan Kapicic - who has taken over the role from Andre Tricoteux - had this to say about his version of Colossus. "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."
It sounds like it was always the plan to get a new voice actor in, and Miller clearly felt like Kapicic (who confirmed that he only finished working on the movie last week) was a better fit. Check out the new images below and be sure to let us know your thoughts on this news in the usual place.
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