‘Sixth Sense’ star Haley Joel Osment reveals why he took a 15-year hiatus from acting
nypost.comHaley Joel Osment, now 36, gave a rare life update about why he took a long hiatus from the spotlight. “My parents used to say when I first started out in this industry, ‘If it’s ever not fun, you can quit tomorrow,'” Osment told E!
News in an interview published on Sunday.He explained, “And when I got to be college age, I got to go off and study theater and really think hard about whether I wanted to do this as my career in life.”Osment rose to fame starring as the troubled young boy Cole Sear in M.
Night Shyamalan’s “The Sixth Sense” alongside Bruce Willis. Osment won an Oscar nomination for the role when he was only 11.
As a child, he also appeared in “Forrest Gump” with Tom Hanks, “Secondhand Lions” with Michael Caine and Robert Duvall, and “A.I: Artificial Intelligence” with Jude Law. “It’s still a job that I really enjoy, despite all the uncertainty and the difficulty of being able to plan your life three to six months out,” he said.
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