Sloboda Micalovic on 18 Years of Marriage and Her Accent
Serbian actress Sloboda Micalovic opened up about her 18-year marriage to fellow actor Vojin Cetkovic, from small quarrels and her Leskovac accent to their age gap and raising twin daughters.
- Sloboda Micalovic and Vojin Cetkovic have been married for 18 years and rarely discuss their private life.
- The actress says her husband corrects the Leskovac accent that resurfaces whenever she gets upset.
- She sees their 10-year age gap as an advantage rather than an obstacle.
- The couple raises twins Mila and Vera strictly and in unison, "like a small army."
Sloboda Micalovic has offered a rare glimpse into her marriage to Vojin Cetkovic, revealing details of a life together that has now lasted eighteen years. The couple, familiar to Serbian audiences both on stage and off, seldom speak about their private life, so every comment she makes travels quickly across social media.
The actress does not pretend everything is always smooth. When they argue, she says, something surfaces that many would not expect from a poised woman of the theater: her native accent from Leskovac.
What happens when they argue?
“When I’m upset, the accents become noticeably different and short. When Vojin and I argue, he corrects my accent,” Sloboda said. She admits her speech has shifted since she settled in the capital.
“I’m in Belgrade more than in Leskovac now, and I’m the worst version of myself because I speak a bit incorrectly, mixing in that Leskovac accent,” she added with a smile. Rather than a source of tension, that quirk seems to have become a small household joke, something that disarms them mid-argument.
For an actress who built her career on precise diction, admitting that anger brings back her hometown speech feels almost tender. It shows that behind a well-rehearsed couple stand two people who know each other down to the smallest verbal habit.
The age difference, long a topic of public speculation, has never been a problem for her. Quite the opposite.
A ten-year gap as an advantage
Sloboda and Vojin are separated by a full decade, yet she does not see it as an obstacle. “The ten-year difference between us is beneficial. I understood this from my youth because I grew up surrounded by my grandparents, who had the same age gap,” the actress explained. The model she watched in her own family, she says, she carried into her own marriage.
Most of the attention, naturally, goes to the daughters. Twins Mila and Vera are growing up with parents who share the same view on discipline, and Sloboda makes no secret of the fact that there is little leniency.
“We both understand that having twin daughters requires us to be firm. They’re like a small army that needs discipline,” she said. A united front and clear rules appear to be their formula for peace in a home where, by all accounts, both the love and the arguments run loud.
Eighteen years together, two daughters, and an accent that gives her away only in a quarrel: it is a rare picture of stability on the Serbian scene. And what about you, does your partner correct you precisely when you’re at your angriest?
