Fans seem to agree: American Horror Story`s Michael Langdon, played expertly by Cody Fern, is TV`s sexiest Antichrist. That may be a relatively small category, but there`s no denying Langdon`s allure. When we got the chance to speak with Fern about the role, we couldn`t help but ask him: How does it feel to be anointed as a sex symbol?`Oh, I don`t know what to think about that,` he said, chuckling. `I don`t have a Twitter, but I do find--people have read things out to me, and I do find them alarming and funny and generous. I can`t think about that stuff, you know, because I`m just doing what I`m doing, and how people are receiving it is how they`re receiving it.`However, Fern admitted that he `built a lot of sexuality into Langdon.` He said he and Sarah Paulson, who plays three different characters and also directed an episode this season, discovered that side of his character together.`We found Langdon`s temptation in that scene when she goes to kiss Langdon,` he said. That was also the first scene he shot as the character. `This woman who has clearly no intimacy in her life, whose body is broken and fractured and whose soul is wavering between the real world and the dark places, and she reaches out to kiss Langdon, and he tells her she`s not getting into the Sanctuary--I mean, that was a very powerful moment for me on set, to understand that, wow, Langdon can twist anybody. I wanted to build that into every scene in the outpost.`From that point forward, he made sure that side of Langdon was evident in every scene, even the darkest points in the story. `The way that he enters a room is creating desire in people,` Fern said. `When Venable is waiting for Langdon to come, everybody`s sitting in a library, and Langdon enters--he enters, he doesn`t look at anybody but Venable. He circles around the entire room, he takes the position, and everything is sexual. The way that he has her move out of the way. The way he begins his conversation. The way that he sees a mass ...
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