“I see dead people“was placed 4th of the 100 best film quotes of all time by the American Film Institute. These fearful words were spoken in the mystery thriller The Sixth Sense from the then children’s actor Haley Joel Osment, who could hardly have guessed that they could have guessed him Practically world famous overnight would do.
In 2000, the then 11-year-old received one for his moving representation of the supernatural talented young Cole Sears Oscar nomination as the best supporting actor. Osment is still the second youngest actor ever, who has ever been mentioned in this category.
The starting signal for a glorious Hollywood career, as quite a bit at the time, quite a few experts. However, this did not happen, because the fame of Osments faded over the years.
Haley Joel Osment shot with Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Michael Caine before he disappeared under the radar
Bruce Willis, his rotary partner in The Sixth Sense, was not the first big star with which Osment was allowed to act in front of the camera at the time. He celebrated five years earlier When Tom Hanks’ son in the Oscar cleaner and cinema hit Forrest Gump his debut on the big screen. In 1996 he took on the role of whoopi Goldberg’s nephew in the flopped fantasy comedy Bogus.
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After the immense success of The Sixth Sense, committed director-legend Steven Spielberg Osment for the leading role in the sci-fi fairy tale AI-artificial intelligence, in which he embodied a robot in a boy form that developed real feelings. Again he was able to convince actively here, but it was supposed to remain his last big career highlight.
After the completely lost adventure film Löwen from second hand, in which he played on the side of the Hollywood greats Michael Caine and Robert Duvall The Osment, who was now matured into a teenager, first withdrew from acting.
However, his long-term professional break was a consciously made decision and not due to a sad fate, as some ex-children’s stars suffer from early fame and success. In an interview with the independent in 2019, Osment also came to this phase in his life:
I think it is sometimes expected that this darkness exists, but I think there are many more stories of people who have had positive experiences at work as children and have not experienced this kind of cliché. And that was the case with me.
Above all, his healthy environment helped him to mentally process Hollywood’s overwhelming force:
I know that I was very lucky because there were other children who might have had no parents who took care of them, or who worked on film sets where they were not protected. But that wasn’t my experience.
Haley Joel Osment wants to act again today
At the beginning of his career, his parents assured him that he could stop acting at any time if he was no longer fun, as Osment told Eonline. This desire seems to have packed him again about ten years ago, because Since then, the 36-year-old has been in front of the camera again more often.
For example, he was seen in films such as Kevin Smith’s weird horror comedy Tusk, the True Crime Drama Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile or most recently in the grandiose psycho-thriller Blink Twice. In addition, in several well -known series with guest appearances, he gave himself the honor, such as in Files X, The Boys and The Kominsky Method. Soon he will also be part of the game in season 2 of the Netflix series Wednesday.
It will be shown whether a big bang like The Sixth Sense will again be in Osments Vita in the future. But even if not, the former child star will probably not have any problem with it.