Travis Fimmel

He was the world's leading male model before becoming an in-demand leading man. But the Black Snow star would rather be at home on the farm.

It was, she says, “a huge piece of work, and we were all like, ‘are we crazy to do this?’” [Karl Quinn](/by/karl-quinn-hvecw)is a senior culture writer at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via There’s the odd moment in which the inexperience shows, but on balance the answer would have to be no, they were not crazy. A show like Black Snow can’t really capture the full complexity of the continuing and broken lines of blood and culture. Her ancestor was kidnapped and brought to Australia to labour in the fields, which meant his brother became chief of Tanna. Her lineage goes back to a chief of Tanna – but that doesn’t mean she’s next in line to the throne. And the scripts are great, it’s a real whodunit sort of story.” It’s one of a half-dozen projects that we’ll see him in over the next year or two; his struggle is clearly not with finding work, but knowing what to make of it. [Airlie Beach](https://www.traveller.com.au/airlie-beach-queensland-travel-guide-and-things-to-do-nine-highlights-h27wo1) is one of my favourite places by far in the world now,” he says. But there’s method in his madness, even if there’s also a fair bit of madness in his method. I never wanted to be the only person talking in a room, and I still don’t. Fimmel’s latest stab at that is in the Stan series Black Snow, in which he plays cold-case detective James Cormack.