I grew up in a town with just under three hundred people in Western Australia. When you think about being six hours outside the second most isolated city in the world, which is Perth, and then you think about the town that I'm from, which is called Southern Cross, acting is not a possibility.
— Cody Fern
It's so crazy to work with Ryan Murphy and then work in the David Fincher world with Robin Wright.
I don't get scared easily.
I just think that women make better actors; I just do. I think it's undeniable.
I would do anything for Ryan Murphy, absolutely anything.
I'm not a religious person, but I read the Bible many years ago.
I don't have a Twitter, so I don't know what's happening in that world.
To be in the same room as Claire Underwood is like a dream come true.
I told my agent that I wouldn't do TV unless it was Ryan Murphy, 'House of Cards,' or HBO.
Good acting is good acting, whether it's on stage, on TV, or in films.
I love everything about Benedict Cumberbatch because he's so intelligent and talented.
It's one thing to be supported in your career and another thing for your peers to embrace you and say, 'We believe in you.'
With 'Horror Story', it really was, 'You're going to run; you're going to jump off this cliff, and trust that that Ryan Murphy is going to catch you.' So I just ran head-on into it and jumped off the edge of that cliff.
When I read the script for 'War Horse,' I was in absolute tatters.
I'm a very positive person in my life. I'm very optimistic.
I went to uni, and I studied commerce on a scholarship, and that was crazy and wild in and of itself.
I grew up watching Kathy Bates, and 'Misery' is one of my favorite films.
One of my favorite films is 'Let the Right One In.'
I'm far more drawn to performances by strong women than I am to men.
I really don't want to offend anybody, but I find all forms of religious fundamentalism frightening.
I find the whole idea of religion overwhelming and frightening and not for me.
If people hate Michael Langdon, that's a good thing. I'm not going to debate that. I don't worry about making him likeable... My real focus in playing Langdon is making his intentions clear and how he operates and what his mission is and how he shapes the perception of who he is around people.
I love Robin Wright so much. She's one of my favorite actresses; she's incredibly powerful.
For me, I can't play a metaphor or a symbol.
There are people in positions of power that are righteous about what they believe: they're enacting out evil principles, but they don't believe that that's what they're doing.
I would want to do a role like the one Ezra Miller had in 'We Need To Talk About Kevin.' That is a real juicy role.
I'm dedicating myself to an art form that takes a lifetime to master.
With 'Versace,' after I had gotten the , it was two weeks of preparation before I started filming, and I had read Maureen Orth's book; I had been able to get a hold of photos and really start to inhabit the mind of David Madson.
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.
The thing about working on a Ryan Murphy TV show is that he has such an extraordinary collective of artists, so everyone is really like a family.
I think nerves are part and parcel of working as an actor. You can either work against them or you can embrace them, and I very much embrace them.
All of my role models as an artist have always been women actors.
What I can say, categorically, is that working with Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates will have been the most formative experience for me, as an actor, for the rest of my life.
After 'Versace' and 'American Horror Story,' if that was the end of the line, then I can go happy.
'Atlas Shrugged' shows when you have a singular vision of something and how quickly you can become attune to that vision and devalue others quickly based on their principles and ideologies.
I can say that working with Jessica Lange has been one of the most incredible joys of my life.
I have never had more fun in my life playing a character than I've had playing Michael Langdon. He's so delicious. He's so layered and complicated.
'House of Cards' I've watched since the first day.
I don't know how to play a character unless I love him.
People don't think of themselves as evil.
I remember watching Cate Blanchett in 'Elizabeth' and feeling like for the first time - even though that time period wasn't happening now - that I believed that role.
I grew up in a very small country town, so I was exposed to horses at quite a young age, but I used to cry and run; they seemed so powerful and so unpredictable.
I've tried to shut myself off as much as possible from the hype of 'War Horse,' and just thought, 'OK, I'm going to focus on the character and focus on the story and focus on what I have to do.'
I've known since I was about six that I wanted to be an actor, but I grew up in a very small country town, and it was just not something that was possible.
