Haley Joel Osment would “come home from school” to Bruce Willis voicemails in years after ‘The Sixth Sense’: “Just saying hi!”
nme.comBruce Willis in the years after The Sixth Sense.Osment appeared in the 1999 film when he was just 11-years-old. While he had been acting since 1994 in Forest Gump, it was his role in M Night Shyamalan’s film that brought him intense media attention after he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role.Osment has revealed how Willis supported him not just when the film came out, but in the years following the film’s release.Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Osment, who is now 36, explained: “I heard from [Bruce] a lot after it came out in those subsequent years.
He’d leave voicemails at the house from time to time, just checking in.“He would just call out of the blue, so sometimes it was in the lead up before travel.
We went to Japan together twice, if I remember correctly, to open Sixth Sense in different cities. So he would call ahead of that, and then 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.
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