Haley Joel Osment Talks ‘Sixth Sense’ twenty fifth Anniversary (Unique)

Haley Joel Osment is celebrating a significant milestone this week as The Sixth Sense turns 25. 

The 36-year-old actor scored his breakthrough position reverse Bruce Willis in M. Night time Shyamalan’s 1999 psychological thriller, incomes nominations on the Academy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards and the Display Actors Guild Awards. Osment was 11 on the time. 

Talking with ET’s Cassie DiLaura on the purple carpet premiere of his newest movie, Blink Twice, Osment stated it by some means appears like “each” yesterday and greater than 20 years since The Sixth Sense thrust him into the highlight. 

“My reminiscence of it’s so sturdy,” he shared. “It was such a difficult position and one other intense expertise.” 

Osment added that he remembers “the day-to-day” of filming fairly effectively, in addition to the instant aftermath of its Aug. 6, 1999, launch. 

“I keep in mind me and my dad going to a newsstand the weekend it got here out to examine the newspaper to see what the numbers had been,” he recalled. “So it is a completely different time.” 

The anniversary comes amid a difficult season for Willis, who’s battling frontotemporal dementia. 

Requested how he retains Willis near his coronary heart at the moment, Osment had no scarcity of type phrases for his former co-star. 

“Oh, very shut,” Osment replied. “It was so great working with him and, I imply, I used to be so grateful to have had that have and to fulfill this man who was the epitome of a film star and a very nice individual.” 

In Blink Twice, Osment stars reverse Channing Tatum, Naomi Ackie, Simon Rex, Christian Slater, Alia Shawkat, Geena Davis, Adria Arjona and Kyle MacLachlan. The movie was written by Zoë Kravitz and E.T. Feigenbaum, and marks Kravitz’s directorial debut. 

The thriller is led by Ackie as Frida, a cocktail waitress uninterested in being missed who will get invited to billionaire tech mogul Slater King’s (Tatum) non-public island for what looks like a nonstop luxurious celebration. King is infamous for throwing lengthy, lavish events on his non-public island and Frida drags alongside her pal, Jess (Shawkat), to hitch in on the lavish festivities.

However Frida quickly finds out that paradise is not all that it appears after Jess goes lacking, and not one of the different partying vacationers appear to care — and even keep in mind that Jess was there regardless of assembly her days earlier. The darkish drama quickly turns into a literal struggle for survival.

“It is an intense thrill trip of a film, however Zoë simply put collectively an exquisite group,” Osment gushed on Thursday on the at DGA Theater Advanced in Los Angeles. “It felt like an important unit and we lived on the placement for probably the most half, so we obtained to spend so much of time with one another, too.”

Blink Twice hits theaters Aug. 23.

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