I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.

Life and career
McAuliffe is a native of the Sydney suburb of Clontarf New South Wales. McAuliffe stars as young Gatsby in a film adaptation of The Great Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann. In 2012 he starred in the Australian television Movie Underground: The Julian Assange Story as one of the teenage Assange's friends involved in the International Subversives.

Callan McAuliffe (born 24 January 1995) is an Australian actor known for his roles as Bryce Loski in the American feature film Flipped and also Sam Goode in I Am Number Four. He will also star as young Gatsby in the 2013 film The Great Gatsby. Callan McAuliffe is also the Youth Ambassador of Wolf Connection a non-profit organization based in [California] which rescue wolves and wolf-dogs and also a youth education and empowerment program.