O Cody Fern i roto i te ao nei no te tau roa o Ryan Murphy i te omuaraa o teie matahiti i roto i te mau hara i te reira aamu: Te Assassination o te Gianni Versace ei David Madson, te hoe o Andrew Cunanan ’ te ati matamua s. Tauturu i te ohipa e faahaere Fern ’ s tera ohipa, e ua roaa iana i te hoe vahi i roto i te Murphy ’ s i te fare o te regulars, Landing iana i te tiaraa o te re o Michael Langdon — aka te Aniti — i roto i te mau aamu o te riaria rahi: Apocalypse. I teie po i mua ’ s finale, I te chatted i te tuiroo Auteraria no nia i tana ohipa working i te legends mai Sarah Paulson e Jessica Lange, anei e aore ra aita oia ’ PH hoi no te tahi atu tau o te AHS, Eaha te mea, mai te huru o te ahu e wig i te patu e i te mea ’ s i roto i te fare toa no te Michael i roto i te finale i te Apocalypse.
Eaha te huru no te hauti i te Aniti?
Ua riro te reira te haamaitairaa rahi roa ae no tou toroa ohipa roa. I rotopu i te reira e te Versace, mai i teie po te ff no te tahi mau tumu o te apocalypse, E oaoa roa e te mea tau i rave i vau ia.
Rahi na outou i te ite i te haere i roto i te tau mau ra?
Aita vau i ite i te mau mea atoa, Noatu e aita vau i ite i te parau tumu, tatou e itehia i te tahi atu mau taata e ite i te. Sa ua ite tatou e e mea papu maitai e, ua tupu te hoe apocalypse, Tera ra, ua itehia e, te hauti ra vau Michael Langdon e piti mahana na mua ae ua haamata maua i te pataraa. Tau ohipa matamua, i te interrogation i te Venable {Sarah Paulson). Na Ryan i parau mai iau ra, e au e e oomoraa i te maoro, blonde wig e, e farii au i te affinity no te capes. Ua haere atu oia i roto i te api i te feruri e, ua i roa i te protagonist.
O Cody Fern, e papu roa e, ma te hoe taime i te Hollywood. Te tuiroo Auteraria e roaa i te haapao maitai i te faufaa mau i roto i te teie pue tau mahanahana i tona tiaraa ei David Madson i roto i te Assassination o te Gianni Versace: Mau hara i te reira aamu, e i teie tau, oia i nia i te tahi e te tahi ua tupai Ryan Murphy ei Michael Langdon, te tamaiti o te Connie Britton e te mea rahi ra te ino i te gimp latex i roto i te tau mau no te mau aamu o te riaria rahi: Apocalypse. Mai te mahana pae hopea, e nehenehe atoa mataitai e a hio i te Fern i roto i te hopea o te pue tau o te mau tareta no te fare. Oia i te mau vahi atoa! Tera ra, e i te faatumu i nia i te mau uiraa faufaa rahi mau: Eaha te mea i rave teie meister riaria rahi no te Halloween, e eaha te mea tana i here i no nia i te parau no te hauti i te Aniti? Rahiraa o te taime i te wigs, i.
Eaha te mea ta outou i rave no te Halloween?
Aita roatu vau i i i te parade i roto i te L.A. na mua ae — e noa na te hoe anairaa roa ratou no te mau, mai te matahiti i mairi aenei ua farii au i te maa poisoning. Teie te matahiti ua rohirohi i te mea e te ua mai te, «Aita, i teie nei e, e ere i te taime tano no te reira. Ua hope noa aamu riaria rahi, e i tou nei aau e faai e eita e nehenehe tau e haere». Tera ra, mai hoa ua ani mai te mea e ua hinaaro vau i te haere, Ua parau vau, «E tuu i nia i te hoe tapoʻi hutiraa mataʻi e te rave i te reira.» No reira, ua haati Hollywood tooa o te ra i te tahi mau hoa e te ite i te no te rai mai i mua iau. E mea cool e te rahi e te mau taata e rave rahi. Ua au aita i faaohipa no te Halloween. E ia atuatu tatou i te reira i Auteraria.
Taahiraa i te hoe i roto i te faaineineraa i te no te hauti i te Aniti? E haapii mai nahea ia.
“Aita vau i ite i te hauti i te hoe huru o te taata maori ra, ua here au iana,” Te parau nei o Cody Fern ET no tona tiaraa ei Michael Langdon, te Aniti, i nia i te aamu mau riaria rahi: Apocalypse. “Aita vau i ite i te ino. E ere te tano iau… ta outou e nehenehe e hauti i te ino. Nahea e nehenehe au e hauti ino?”
E tae mai te fern darn roa i te opani i nia i te mau FX, o te, faahiahia, noa tona toru o te afata teata. Mai te mau parau no te tuiroo Auteraria, oia anae te mau ua i roto i te ohipa no te pae o te matahiti. I muri ae i te honing i tona chops i roto i te mau taata Auteraria, Ua tae mai oia i roto i te hiero no Los Angeles i te rave i tana mau moemoea Hollywood, Tera ra, aita te ohipa no te toru e te afa “iria” matahiti. Ua taui te mau mea atoa e o Ryan Murphy.
Te super-producer ay sa ng Fern ei David Madson i roto i tona mau FX mau, Mau hara i te reira aamu: Te Assassination o te Gianni Versace. “E, tau ohipa matamua mau i te toroa,” Te parau ia fern o te gig. Noatu e, ua pii oia i te reira hoe “nainai rii patururaa i te ohipa,” Ua navai te reira no te faaite i te Murphy, e ua horoa iana i te tuhaa breakout i roto i te tufaa api o te AHS. Fern, o atoa mau fetia i nia i te tau api o te mau tareta no te fare, Ua ohipa tamau noa mai taua mau taime.
No tona tiaraa ei Michael mai, Ua farii te tuiroo 30 matahiti te paari e te taioraa i te Bibilia i te Satanic, te hoe o te mau ravea hau atu i te anaanatae e ua faaineine oia i te haere i roto i te huru o te taata — Tera ra, aita te faufaa roa ae.
“Te faatere i te taata nei, o te reira mau mea e haere au no te, no te mea nahea e nehenehe ai outou ia hauti i te Aniti? No te au, E nehenehe e hauti au i te hoe parabole e aore ra, i te hoe tapao. Ua hinaaro vau ia hauti i te taata nei, e e te hinaaro nei au i te hauti i te taata nei e, e mai te au i te tahi e te tahi, i o i hinaaro, i o i te mau hinaaro, e te mauiui, o te here ia e te hinaaro i te here, e e mea nahea e haere atu vau no nia i te haere, e i te faufaa tumu ia o te ua,” Te faataa nei fern, Ua rave oia i te faaururaa no o mai nahea te oraraa o te arii vahine Elizabeth II, tei faaitehia i nia i te Netflix te korona e heheu.
“A feruri na i te fanauhia i roto i te hoe mea o te sinasabing isinulat ua tavini i te hoe tumu rahi ae,” te parau ra oia. “E mea nahea vau i te haafatata i o Michael i te iria, te matamua, Aita e maramarama e, ua fanauhia oia i roto i te hoe mea ra e o oia, e, aita oia i maiti. Te hinaaro nei oia ia haere i te molding iana iho i roto i te, e e ru noa te tahi atu mau taata i nia i te iana, e te vai nei teie mau titauraa e te mau weights e oia atoa i teie nei mau faaiteraa e aita oia i taa, mai ra e o oia o te enacting.”
Te tuhaa hopea o te hepetoma e ua ite i te taa ore o Michael i haere mai i te hoe upoo, i roto i te hoe tuhaa ino i roto i te o e laba oia i te hapa e “tahitohito” iana, Te faaite nei fern. “Ua paari au i roto i te hoe vahi i reira e haere i e e taata taparahi pohe i te mau mea, e mea rahi, e ere i te reira,” Ua farii te tuiroo o tona tamariiraa i, Noatu e, te parau ia tana iho mau hioraa aita i haere mai i roto i te hauti a ai i te faatia i te ohipa.
“Taua ohipa ra i te taatoaraa o te te faahemaraa muri o te Mesia, Ua ite outou. No reira, e aita haapeapea iau i te mau,” te parau ra oia i te hoe ata. “E e papu roa e, aita te hauti iau iho. Te vai nei te mau mea au i roto i te ohipa, Tera ra, i muri iho, ua i te huru o na atoa e haere. E outou e taeahia i te feruriraa te mau mea. E o te mau mea o te reira. Ua farii outou i te hauti i roto i teie basileia taa e te vahi tei reira outou, aita outou, no reira, te vai nei te mau aua. E ite outou i, Aita tau nei taparahi pohe i te mau hapa, no reira, ua maitai noa.”
I te pae aui i te ape i te reira e piti noa o te tau, Ua teases te fern e tuaro e nehenehe e tiaturi atu no te tere i te Apocalypse. “Ua haere mai tatou i te haapii mai e, e ere i te mea rahi e Michael e amo i te, Tera ra, te mau ra te ati roa i te taata iho na te hoe pupu taata taa e ra. E noatu te mau taa rahi atu a, na te Cordelia,” Ua parau oia, hinting i te vai ra te hoe parau tohu, eita e nehenehe e apehia. “No reira, e papu roa e, e faaamu i roto i te mau mea ta tatou e te hio, e te auraa o te parau-tia o Michael i te haereraa i mua no nia e mea nahea oia i te haere no te hoi mai i te Cordelia. E nehenehe e horoa i te au atu i te rahi roa.”
Fern puohuhia no te hamaniraa i te AHS i te hepetoma hopea, faʻi e faarue i te huru o te taata i te manao “te hiaai o te varua.” “Huru o ua fatata hoi down i earth, e i reira e i te hoe faanahoraa, Ua ite outou? Especially because I so loved playing Michael and I so loved being in his skin. So it’s tough,” te parau ra oia. “But you know, I will say, I’ve had the most extraordinary year of my life. And I’m so grateful for it, and I’m so overwhelmed by it.”
“Look, if Ryan asked me back, I would be thrilled. I mean, Ryan is such an exceptional artist and human being. I want to work with him again and again and again and again, so if I had that opportunity, I 100 percent will jump, but I’m focusing on the present,” Fern muses. “Whereas normally I would be worrying about what the future is going to bring, I’m just bathing in this moment right now, and it’s been the most glorious moment of my life. So I’m incredibly fortunate and just so grateful.”
O Cody Fern te paraparau nei i te papai vea i te Hollywood no nia i te embodying i te Michael Langdon i te anthology FX riaria rahi e te teases hoe “mea oaoa” faaoti i te, Apocalypse.’
O Cody Fern aita i ite oia te hauti ra te Aniti ia tauraa matamua oia i tana ohipa i te mau aamu o te riaria rahi.
Ua fati i te tuiroo te hoe ohipa i nia i a Ryan Murphy i te tahi atu mau FX, Te Assassination o te Gianni Versace: Mau hara i te reira aamu, e i noa puohuhia pataraa i nia i te hopea o te pue tau o te mau tareta no te na te fare o te Netflix. E piti mahana na mua ae i te upoo parau i roto i te faanahoraa i nia i te vauraa o te pue tau no te riaria rahi anthology AHS, tei topahia te ioa i te Apocalypse, Ua ite aera o fern ua hauti oia i te hau atu i te taata i te “roa, blonde i te rouru e te affinity no te capes” when he saw the name of his character in the new script: Michael Langdon.
AHS viewers first met Michael Langdon in season one’s Murder House. Michael was a 3-year-old who had been prophesied to be the Antichrist, the son of the devil who would bring about the end of the world. Seven seasons later, Murphy returned to that mythology with the crossover season of Apocalypse, which has tied together Murder House and season three’s Coven with the end-of-the-world plot. By design, mystery still swirls around the man at the center of the season as it barrels towards its conclusion.
Cody Fern didn’t know anything about his American Horror Story: Apocalypse character. Well, almost nothing. He knew he’d be wearing a luxurious wig.
“What wig? [Laughs.] The discussion about the wig was the first thing I knew about the character. I found out that’d I’d be playing a character in American Horror Story back in October, but I didn’t know who it was going to be until days before filming,” Fern told E! News. He knew he’d be working with Sarah Paulson and that’s pretty much it.
“I didn’t know who I was playing, I just knew he would have long, Dorian Gray-esque hair and would love capes. That’s all I knew. The discussion about the wig…I don’t remember having a discussion in which it was to match Connie Britton, but I know there was to be elements of other characters imbued into him, but I didn’t know which, because it was so under wraps…[Ryan Murphy] Ua mau roa no nia i te hinaaro i te reira wig. E mea rave i roto i taua wig ra o Ryan,” Ua parau oia i te hoe ata.
Taata — e ia Fern — i teie nei ite e, e hauti oia i te Michael Langdon, te tamaiti i te mau aamu o te riaria rahi: Mau taata taparahi taata fare Vivien (Britton) e o Tate (Evan Peters). Billie Dean Howard (te hoe o te Paulson te mau taata e rave rahi teie pue tau o te AHS: Apocalypse) Predicted Michael Langdon, te Tamaiti a te Varua, e riro te Aniti. Te ora nei oia i nia i taua fa, anei taata mai iana te huru e aore ra, aita.
Cody Fern ua ofati i te mau aau e ua tupu te i tana ohipa ei David Madson i roto i te «te Assassination o te Gianni Versace: Mau hara i te reira aamu.» Tera ra, i teie nei ua mai-faahou-hia faau ai e o Ryan Murphy no te «mau riaria rahi aamu: Apocalypse,«i roto i te o ua hauti te demoni te Michael Langdon, e nehenehe e haava oioi wavutu o te, e tapea i te mau aau o te feia i roto i tona huru i te flick mai i tona rima.
Te parau ia fern i muri ae i te rave i te ohipa i te Murphy i nia i te «Versace,«te producer prolific ua ani iana ai oia e i muri iho e vai ra no te mea ua ite oia e ua hinaaro oia i te iana i nia i te «Aamu riaria rahi». Tera ra, aita oia i parau Fern papu tei oia e ia hauti i te reira iho.
«[O Ryan] sa birika mai iau i te huru o te taata i te maoro i te rouru Dorian-esque, e i te mana e rave rahi atoa ra te moni rahi o te mamae,«Fern parau mau. «Aita vau i ite e ua hauti au i te Michael Langdon tae roatu i te hepetoma na mua ae ua haamata maua i te pataraa».
Te taitai tumu, Te tamau noa nei te fern, Ua e Murphy parau iana oia e ia rave i te ohipa i te «maere te mau vahine,” and the two had a “gush session” about Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates. He also “pitched me as the good guy in the scenario and the hero in the scenario,” which Fern found funny because he actually thought the villain would be more interesting.
“But how it all shakes out in the end, I’m playing both of them, in a way,” he says.
The Australian actor broke out this year in the role of David Madson in Ryan Murphy’sMau hara i te reira aamu: Te Assassination o te Gianni Versace. Next, Fern has a starring role in the upcoming Kevin Spacey-less season of Te mau tareta na te fare. He’s also writing and directing a feature film, produced by auteur filmmaker Xavier Dolan.
How do you approach playing a real person in Versace versus a fictional person in Te mau tareta na te fare?
“My process is ever-changing. It has to alter and adapt. Playing David Madson inVersace—from the moment he enters the screen, he’s pleading for his life in one way or another. So it was a very intuitive, emotional, raw experience. Tera ra Te mau tareta na te fare, you are working within the Te mau tareta na te fare realm, there’s a style and rhythm and structure to the show, where everybody is operating in this realm of sex and power and status, and there’s a game being played in every single scene.”
Is it true you almost quit acting before getting the breakout role in Versace?
“You’re always going to lose out when you’re new in town, have no credits, and you’re not 22. So I just started to get worn down. People didn’t know where to place me as an actor. They wanted me to play the boy next door and I refused to play that, because it’s antithetical to who I am and what I want to do. I wanted to work with Ryan Murphy because he’s a visionary and a trailblazer in terms of telling stories about minorities and sections of societies that people don’t want to look at. So I flew from London, went to the audition jet-lagged as hell, and I got the role. Everything changed.”
Gianni Versace gets title billing in the current season of Ryan Murphy’s anthology series American Crime Story, but the story belongs to his murderer, Andrew Cunanan. A serial killer who targeted gay men, Cunanan was already being pursued by the FBI in connection to four murders before he shot Versace in the head outside his beachfront villa in South Beach in July 1997, and while the season opens with the famed designer’s death, it quickly spins back in time to track Cunanan’s bloody path to Miami. In last week’s episode, Cunanan, played by Darren Criss, killed Lee Miglin, a closeted married man who was a longtime client of Cunanan’s escort services, and tonight introduces David Madson, Cunanan’s ex-boyfriend and second victim, who is portrayed by the Australian newcomer Cody Fern in his television début. “If you know Ryan’s work, you know that Ryan is not going to just give you the assassination of Gianni Versace,” Fern says. “That doesn’t interest him so much as the context around it and how it got to this point. He finds ways into stories that nobody else does. I don’t know where it comes from, but he understands human nature in a way that most people don’t.”
The newcomer on growing up in the Australian outback, playing Jennifer Garner’s son, and his next role on Mau hara i te reira aamu.
Based on Joy Nicholson’s 1997 best-selling novel of the same name, Brendan and Emmett Malloys’ sophomore narrative feature, The Tribes of Palos Verdes—with Karen Croner’s capable script that exchanged several directors’ hands during its nearly two decades in development—is the story of a family in crisis, set against the spectacular backdrop of coastal Southern California.
The Masons just relocated to an affluent Palos Verdes, planting roots in an idyllic clifftop residence overlooking the Pacific surf. But as our teenage protagonist Medina (Maika Monroe) informs us in voiceover, there was trouble brewing long before the family arrived in this paradise. At 16, she’s an outcast who relies entirely too much on her effortlessly charismatic twin brother Jim (O Cody Fern). Medina and Jim take to the waves every chance they get—their mastery of the surfboard a reprieve from their doomy lives at home. Consider their manic depressive mother Sandy (Jennifer Garner), who grows pathologically dependent on Jim when her follow-your-bliss husband Phil (Justin Kirk) extricates himself from her “black hole moods” to be with their young, bubbly real estate agent (Alicia Silverstone). In fact, Medina and Sandy are so thrown off-balance by this adjustment from heartland Michigan to a rigid and superficial world that keeping them on an even keel takes precedence for Jim, even as he slips deeper into his own drug abuse—a seismic disaster-in-wait.
From small mining-town Southern Cross, WA-born and raised Cody Fern looks set to take Hollywood by storm after winning the Australians in Film’s sixth annual Heath Ledger Scholarship in Los Angeles.
Fern was inspired to pursue acting after seeing Ledger in the 2006 film Candy where the late WA actor played a heroin addict.
“He’s an inspiration, in particular because I come from WA where he is a legend but personally and professionally – it means the world to me to win this scholarship,” Fern said.
Twenty-five-year-old Fern remarkably only stepped on to a stage five years ago. He graduated from Curtin University with a bachelor of commerce.
Fern has since appeared in numerous plays including as Romeo in Perth’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Romeo and Juliet in 2011 before moving to Sydney and landing the coveted lead role of Albert Narracott in the Australian production of War Horse in 2012.
He has just signed with an LA agent and manager and has auditioned for a number of feature films with his “dream role” being playing opposite Meryl Streep or Daniel Day-Lewis.
His prize includes a $10,000 cash fund, a two-year scholarship at Los Angeles’ Stella Adler Academy of Acting and Theatre and mentoring opportunities with industry professionals and the AiF.