After 25 years, Haley Joel Osment is fondly remembering his on-set expertise with Bruce Willis.
The Oscar nominee just lately mirrored on his “implausible” time as a toddler actor working with Willis on the M. Evening Shyamalan film The Sixth Sense (1999) and the way their behind-the-scenes friendship endured through the years.
“I heard from [Bruce] lots after it got here out in these subsequent years,” he advised Leisure Weekly. “He’d go away voicemails on the home once in a while, simply checking in. He would simply name out of the blue, so typically it was within the lead up earlier than journey. We went to Japan collectively twice, if I bear in mind accurately, to open Sixth Sense in numerous cities. So he would name forward of that, after which typically I’d simply come residence from college and the answering machine can be blinking and it’d be him going like, ‘Hey, Haley Joel. Simply saying hello.’
“I want to seek out these outdated answering tapes. I do know we preserved these. I do know his daughters somewhat bit, however I’ve not spoken to him because the information of his well being lately,” added Osment.
In 2022, Willis’ household introduced his retirement after he was recognized with aphasia, which progressed to frontotemporal demential the subsequent yr.
Haley Joel Osmont and Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense (1999). (Buena Vista/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
In The Sixth Sense, Willis performs little one psychologist Dr. Malcolm Crowe, who tries to assist younger Cole Sear (Osment) as he’s visited by ghosts. The movie earned six Oscar nominations, together with Finest Image and Finest Supporting Actor for Osment.
“I had labored with Tom Hanks earlier than on Forrest Gump and different large title actors, however at that time I used to be sufficiently old to have seen plenty of Bruce’s motion pictures, which added plenty of pleasure to it,” he recalled. “And that’s one thing that lasts your whole profession, the place you get to work with individuals who you’ve loved watching in different issues. And it made an enormous impression on me as a result of that was the primary gigantic movie star that I’d labored with at an age the place I used to be conscious of his stardom.”
Osment continued, “He did all the pieces in such a cool approach, and had such charisma, and was the particular person that you really want on set setting the tone for the form of film we had been making, as a result of issues often revolve across the No. 1 on the decision sheet. It was a script that all of us cared about a lot and put a lot effort into, and Bruce led the way in which on that.”
