Cody Fern Responds to Criticism of His Actual Australian Accent in 'American Horror Stories'

American Horror Stories fans had an issue with the way Cody Fern really speaks!

In episode six of the horror series, the 33-year-old actor plays a park ranger with an Australian accent.

As the episode aired, fans took to Twitter to criticize Cody‘s “accent” without realizing that he was speaking in his normal voice, since he was born and raised in Australia.

In a new interview, Cody responded to all the criticism.

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“I’m not fairly comfortable acting in my accent,” Cody admitted to TV Line. “So it was very strange for me to use my own accent.”

He continued, “I don’t have Twitter, but I’ve seen feedback from people within the company who are sending me little tweets like, ‘He should stick with his plain white-boy American accent’ and, ‘Who does this Harvard grad think he is trying to do an Australian accent? He’s not Meryl Streep!’ I’m like, ‘You all need to calm down.’”

Make sure you check out the trailer for the upcoming American Horror Story: Double Feature!