Haley Joel Osment Emotionally Shares His Admiration For “Sixth Sense” Costar Bruce Willis

It’s been 25 years since we were captivated by 10-year-old Haley Joel Osment’s chilling performance in The Sixth Sense . The famous line “I see dead people” haunted our dreams for years.

Haley Joel starred alongside Bruce Willis in the blockbuster film, while Bruce’s career was at its peak. While Bruce could have been too big of a star to worry about spending quality time with a kid, that wasn’t his style.

Bruce Willis Made Quite An Impression On Haley Joel Osment

He said that even though he was young and fresh, Bruce and director M. Night Shyamalan “really treated me as an equal.”

Bruce was a huge star but didn’t have a huge ego.

“To see someone like Bruce do that, that’s really been inspiring to me. That whatever position you have in the industry, everybody is on the same page.”

Haley Joel said that Bruce’s demeanor had a big impact on him as a child and has helped mold the kind of mentor he wants to be to young actors.

Bruce, now 69, was diagnosed with aphasia in 2022 and later learned he had frontotemporal dementia. While he has lost his ability to communicate, the impact he’s had will never fade.

“I carry with me a lot of the things that I learned from Bruce into the stuff that I do today,” he said. “It was one of the best experiences I’ve had as an actor.”

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