Interview with Callan McAuliffe
August 30, 2010 by Mike Gencarelli
Aussie breakthrough Callan McAuliffe might wear his heart on his sleeve as the lead in Rob Reiner’s “Flipped,” but it’s unclear if he’ll even have a human heart in “I Am Number Four.”
McAuliffe has just wrapped the highly anticipated Stephen Spielberg/Michael Bay feature which is directed by D.J. Caruso, but he’s still not saying whether he’s an actual teen or an alien pretending to be a teen in the movie.
“I’m not going to tell you,” he says to PopcornBiz frequent inquiries. “The whole plan is the aliens are trying to blend in.”
So there is an attempt to keep the actual alien identities secret during the run up to the film’s autumn release. The action story centers around a group of aliens who escape from their mortal alien enemies only to find out they are being hunted down on Earth.
Callan says he is in a very different world from “Flipped,” where he happily planted a tree and talked about his feelings.
“There will be no planting of trees in this next film,” he laughs. “And I definitely get the chance to kick some ass.” Look out bad aliens.