Haley Joel Osment on Bruce Willis and the twist of The Sixth Sense
On the twenty fifth anniversary of The Sixth Sense, Haley Joel Osment is exhibiting admiration for co-star Bruce Willis.
It’s been 25 years since Haley Joel Osment noticed lifeless folks in The Sixth Sense. While Osment had a small function in Forrest Gump prior, would go on to work with Steven Spielberg and later be a welcome face in motion pictures and TV, nothing may or will high The Sixth Sense. And so for the event, he remembers working with Bruce Willis and the film’s well-known twist.
Sitting down with Entertainment Weekly, Haley Joel Osment stated that Bruce Willis was all the pieces he had imagined and extra on the set of The Sixth Sense. “It was fantastic…It made a huge impression on me because that was the first gigantic celebrity that I’d worked with at an age where I was aware of his stardom. And he did everything in such a cool way, and had such charisma, and was the person that you want on set setting the tone for the sort of movie we were making, because things usually revolve around the No. 1 on the call sheet. It was a script that we all cared about so much and put so much effort into, and Bruce led the way on that.” That’s fairly superior to listen to, particularly since Willis was solely put in The Sixth Sense as a result of of the Broadway Brawler debacle. Osment additionally added that Willis continued his good graces even after filming wrapped. “Sometimes I would just come home from school and the answering machine would be blinking and it’d be him going like, ‘Hey, Haley Joel. Just saying hi.’ I need to find those old answering tapes. I know we preserved those.”
But let’s face it: it’s tough to speak about The Sixth Sense with out speaking about its ending, during which it’s revealed that Willis’ Malcolm Crowe has been lifeless the complete time, one other one of the “dead people” that Osment’s Cole sees all through the movie. But in contrast to in some eventualities, these inside the business had been fairly tight-lipped. “It’s also kind of remarkable that a lot of people read that script and the twist was not so widely known, and had not been spoiled by people who had had access to it before. We didn’t have to shoot any fake endings or anything like that to throw people off.”
Haley Joel Osment would go on to nab one of The Sixth Sense’s six Academy Award nominations, turning into the second-youngest Best Supporting Actor nominee ever, which holds to this present day. While the film would go dwelling empty-handed, {that a} horror movie was additionally nominated for Best Picture was nonetheless an enormous deal. (Go forward, name it a thriller if that makes you cheerful; both method, it was a uncommon feat at the Oscars.)
What do you suppose the fame of The Sixth Sense is 25 years on? Does it maintain up or was it very a lot of its time?
