Bruce Willis Left Voicemails for Haley Joel Osment in Years After ‘Sixth Sense’ Filming; Osment Would Get Home from School and Hear Willis ‘Just Saying Hi’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Haley Joel Osment joined Entertainment Weekly to reflect on the 25th anniversary of M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Sixth Sense” and remembered getting voicemails from co-star Bruce Willis in the years that followed the release of the blockbuster horror film.
Osment was just 10 years old when he starred in the film, which earned him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. “The Sixth Sense” was the second-highest grossing movie of 1999 with $672 million worldwide. “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,” Osment said. “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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