For someone who says she enjoys being comfortable, Fern Sutherland has somehow found her life split between two confronting worlds – months spent training in Muay Thai boxing in humid, tropical Phuket, before plunging back into the chilly depths of a Kiwi winter to film the annual season of The Brokenwood Mysteries.
“Living my life in extremes seems to be something I like doing,” laughs the Taranakiborn actress. “It’s something Ivenoticed I’ve about myself – I like to put myself in really uncomfortable situations and really hate it at the same time.”
Fern, 36, says that pain is where personal growth comes from, which she agrees absolutely sounds like the kind of inspirational poster that would be on