Callan
McAuliffe. Photo: Ben Glass
Christine Sams, The Sun-Herald, reports
Sydney actor Callan McAuliffe will start filming new film next
week.
Young Australian actor Callan McAuliffe has been named as the star of a new Hollywood indie film Blue Potato, playing opposite Sara Sutherland (actor Kiefer Sutherland’s daughter).
Young Australian actor Callan McAuliffe has been named as the star of a new Hollywood indie film Blue Potato, playing opposite Sara Sutherland (actor Kiefer Sutherland’s daughter).
Seventeen-year-old McAuliffe from Sydney is a rising star in the
US and his new role has been reported by the industry bible, Variety magazine.
The film, which will be made by indie director Aron Gaudet,
explores the story of two teenage boys working on a potato farm. Sutherland
will play McAuliffe’s love interest in the film. McAuliffe also appears as the
young Jay Gatsby in the upcoming Baz Luhrmann film, The Great Gatsby.
He grew up in the Sydney suburb of Clontarf and started acting as
an eight-year-old, making occasional appearances in local television shows
including Blue Water High and
Packed to the Rafters.
He received his first big break in the US when he scored the
leading role in Flipped,
which was directed by Rob Reiner. But it was his appearance in the Steven
Spielberg produced sci fi teen genre film I
Am Number Four which brought him to the attention of Hollywood’s
heavy-hitters.
Filming for McAuliffe’s new movie Blue Potato begins in Maine, in the United
States, next week.
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