I think it’s because there's quite a few of us now but because we’re less frequent than American actors - because Hollywood is the place to be for actors - and there's just a big rush when an Australian comes over just because there's less of them. I guess that's just how it is. Like if you pick a pink jellybean out of a jar of green ones it’d be amazing, but if you pick a green one, no one will care.

Callan McAuliffe

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I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.

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allowance swagger house

I like to sleep. I like to do nothing. Nothing is my favorite kind of something.

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my-favorite kind sleep

I don't like concrete jungles.

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jungle concrete-jungle concrete

I don't go for girls who have beach blond hair, that stereotypical girl thing. But, you know, whatever comes around.

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girl hair beach

I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

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flip wall running

You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.

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country america people

The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.

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guy stuff add

I'm not a big fan of training, at all. I really don't like it. I've done a few acting classes and I've just hated them. I think they train you to do something, and sometimes you might not be able to break out of it. Acting is lying, and lying is acting. So, I just prefer to read the script and do it my own way.

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class lying thinking

I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.

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effort theatre heart

I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.

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actors fields natural

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

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paradise fancy lost

I hate watching myself, as do a lot of actors.

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i-hate actors hate

Every country needs another country to make fun of.

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fun country needs

I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.

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girl i-like-you mean

I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.

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acting stupid people

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

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dialect accents respectable

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.

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guy people school

I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

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watching-tv people way

I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.

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tanks beautiful talking

Johnny Depp is really my favorite male actor. Ellen Page would be my favorite female actor. Both of them, just because of the diversity that Johnny plays in his roles and just the different characters that he morphs into, it's fantastic.

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