Li te grandi nan yon vil ti kanbrous ak pa t 'mete pye sou yon etap jouk twa ane ale.
Koulye a,, nan 24, Cody Fern te jete nan wòl nan plon te sitèlman anvi pou kouri nan Ostralyen nan sansasyon etap entènasyonal lagè Chwal.
Li ale san ki di ke li te frisonen yo te te ateri yon wòl rèv, men malgre levasyon izole l ', te chemen Fern nan nan li te anyen eksepte aksidan.
Li te de fwa vann tout sa li posede, vire desann yon likwatif ofri karyè antrepriz ak swiv santi zantray li nan ensèten manm.
Ane sa a, li te rive nan Sydney soti nan Western Australia san yo pa yon travay, yon kay oswa yon zanmi nan je je fèmen pouswiv sa li kwè li te fèt yo fè: zak.
“Mwen te li te ye depi m 'te sou sis ke mwen te vle fè yon aktè, men mwen te grandi nan yon vil ki piti anpil peyi ak li te jis pa yon bagay ki te posib,” Fern di.
“Mwen toujou kalite zongle tèt mwen ke li nan tout tonbe nan plas. Li te yon woulib enkwayab byen lwen tèlman.”
Sa ti vil te Southern Cross, sou 400km andedan soti nan Perth, popilasyon 700. tout lekòl Fern nan, soti nan ane 1-10, te gen sou 80 timoun. ansyen lekòl pansyon li, yon kondwi plis 90-minit lwen, te yon ti kras pi gwo ak sou 30 nan nivo ane li.
toujou, pa yon anpil nan fè kou atizay ale sou deyò, se konsa Fern te pran wout la akademik jouk li te kapab fè l 'kraze.
With a Bachelor of Commerce and an Honours in Strategic Marketing from Perth’s Curtin University under his belt, Fern knocked back an internship with Ernst and Young and signed on for a nine-month acting course.
His inner sat-nav was finally realigned and it felt so sweetly right.
“I’d wanted to do it my whole life and it was time to do it,” Fern di. “When I was at uni I got good grades and went on to do honours, but I kept thinking, ‘I shouldn’t be here’. Something just didn’t feel right.
“When I finished I decided that every decision I make from this day forward will be purely based on intuition and I’m not going to fight that.”
Fast-forward three years and Fern has landed his breakthrough role after a stream of masterclasses, night classes and appearances in plays and short films in Perth and Sydney.
He now joins an ensemble of 33 actors in lagè Chwal, taking on the lead role of Albert Narracott, the teenager whose beloved horse, Joey, is sold to the cavalry at the outbreak of World War I.
The National Theatre of Great Britain play has astonished audiences in London (pictured inset) and New York, winning five Tony Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards, and four Outer Critics Circle Awards. It features puppetry by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company.
It will make its Australian premiere, with a local cast, at the Arts Centre Melbourne on New Year’s Eve before going to Sydney and Brisbane.
“When I read the script for lagè Chwal I was in absolute tatters. The lady in the cafe came up and asked me if I was OK,” Fern di.
“It really is incredibly overwhelming and moving. I’m so excited and anxious to get started. I’ve tried to shut myself off as much as possible from the hype of War Horse and just thought, ‘OK, Mwen pral konsantre sou karaktè a ak konsantre sou istwa a ak konsantre sou ki sa mwen dwe fè '. Tout lòt bagay pral sèl lapli tonbe desann kòm lou kòm li fè sa.”