Haley Joel Osment

Wow, lots of Kingdom Hearts questions! I am a fan of the series too, so I am excited to see what they do with KH3. I only have about as much information as you all do at the moment; they are still making the game, and my part is one of the last steps in the process. I won't be involved until later in the year at the earliest. But I will let you all know if I hear anything more!

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Michael Caine is a is a gifted storyteller and hugely generous actor. He would regale all of us on the set with his many stories going back decades in his career. He wrote a very good book in the 80s about acting technique that gives you a good idea of what he's like in person. He is never afraid to share his experience and technique with a younger actor and I appreciated that very much.

it was unscripted....one of the many remarkable things about Duvall is his absolute dedication to the integrity of not only his own, but his costars' performances; he refused to get out of the lake and wear a coat when we did my coverage of that climactic scene and it was freezing and he is in his eighties. You can always count on him to give it his all, on camera and off camera.

I think the biggest determining factor was my parents. They made an enormous effort to keep me grounded and to make sure that I didn't slack off on school or the other aspects of my life that would be important whether or not my career went anywhere. My dad is a theater actor so he was a big influence in the way I focused on the work rather than the other "Hollywood" aspects of the business, and my mom, a sixth grade teacher, was adamant that I finish my education. I did graduate from NYU in 2011 and I'm glad she steered me that way!

I was also very lucky to work with directors and producers who treated young actors with respect and protected their welfare on set. Spielberg is very well known for caring about where his young actors end up. He sends personal holiday cards to my family to this day which is just mind boggling because his Rolodex must extend into the hundred thousands!

Thank you very much!

AI offered me the most in-depth preparatory experience of my career. Jude and I rehearsed with Steven extensively in the months leading up to filming. Jude also had the immense task of learning to dance expertly in a variety of styles; not only did he sit through three hours of makeup every morning, he was taking hours of lessons in Salsa, swing etc. (my makeup only took about 45 minutes...no prosthesis!)

We were excited to see (a semi-accurate) post about Tusk's wrapping in North Carolina go to #1 on Reddit last November! I think Kevin Smith has done an excellent job cultivating his fan base on social media and elsewhere (some of his talk backs go on for 8 hours!) and that was some evidence right there. We have a few more days of pick ups in February but Ive seen a cut and it's OUT OF CONTROL. I laughed and felt uncomfortable in the same proportion as when I watch David Lynch movies. Release will be second half of '14 I believe.

I'm in the former camp! I think that he and his longtime collaborators (Matt Piedmont and Andrew Steele, director and writer of Spoils, respectively) have an even more surreal sense of humor than what their work on SNL suggested. Matt has a directing style that works perfectly with Ferrell's sensibilities; it's almost a kind of performance art. I had a blast.

i suppose it will come out eventually.....Cinnamon Life

It certainly was a disturbing subject matter but there is something desensitizing (not necessarily in a negative way) about seeing the whole process of making a horror movie that prevents you from being too scared going forward. I like horror movies but I have trouble getting really scared anymore! There is a deleted scene from the Sixth Sense where I look out the window of the hospital and see an entire wing with horribly disfigured and mutilated people standing in each of the dozens of windows. I saw every single one of these actors going through makeup and that kind of eased the shock of it. I think Night wisely cut that out because we end up having a movie that isn't too gory and your imagination (the most terrifying force at work) takes over.

For that reason, it's things like The Road, House of Leaves, and The Shining that have the most enduring hold on me because they question your own sanity and send your imagination spiralling out into the worst regions you're capable of imagining.

I'm actually not sure if it's even on the DVD....internet: find it

When you get lucky, as I did getting to work on a series of amazing films, one of the drawbacks career-wise is that the image of you at 10 or 12 or whatever is burned into people's minds for a long time. That said, I'm proud that those films are still so beloved and that they stand a good chance of being watched for many years going forward. For an actor, however, it's important to keep diversifying your work and trusting that eventually people will see the span rather than just that moment in time.

Hahaha i was still a few years away from puberty at that point but Bruce's radiant manliness certainly cannot be denied. He was great to work with, and I wish I had been a little older at the time because apparently there were some pretty great Willis-DJed crew parties on the weekends at the Philadelphia Convention center.

Side note: that building was the setting used for filming a lot of movies in the 90s (including 12 Monkeys). People like JFK and Billy Graham spoke there long ago and it has since been demolished. It's weird to go by there now and think of everything that took place in that space. A very Sixth Sense theme!

Found Footage. 100%

We only pretended otherwise because of Blair Witch...

I hear some amazing stories from strangers with surprising regularity....things like kidneys being donated and family members being flown to bed-sides (!)....it never ceases to amaze me that a movie can have such a lasting effect on the public consciousness. There are a lot of very serious problems in this country but one thing we have going for us is how people are so often willing to make sacrifices to help one another. I've seen this just on this site, from lost dogs being returned to homeless people being housed!

I think I actually got to experience a "normal" childhood in ways most people don't expect. I went to a regular elementary school, high school, and went to university with only two work-related interruptions in those last four years. You are kind of thrust into the spotlight by being in projects like the ones we've mentioned at a young age but my parents made a tremendous effort to have a home life, education, and community that preserved the privacy and freedom kids need. It also delayed my involvement with social media until this very day (this reddit ama was my first ever tweet) and I think my desire to have almost absolute privacy protected me in my teens and early twenties (which may not have been the case if I didn't grow up that way). At 25 now I think I'm better prepared for public life in this industry.

So, short answer: no. :)

When big studio films come out you wind up seeing them like a dozen times in a very short period while you're doing publicity. For the Sixth Sense, we went to premiers in Japan, Germany, the UK, Spain, Italy, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. So I don't usually return after that except by accident! I don't have a problem returning to my own work (sometimes the things you hate about a performance can inspire you to fix the issue next time around) . I had a crazy experience in Cuba in 2011 related to this. I went (legally!) with one of my NYU professors (an excellent teacher named Catherine Coray--If you're in NYC, you may know her from the theatre festivals and workshops she runs there) and did workshops at a university outside Havana. They asked me to do a talk back there and I saw the Sixth Sense for the first time in a decade. Didn't recognize myself! I remember the experience of shooting movies very clearly but it's strange to watch yourself as a kid.

NYU is a gigantic school but the little part of it I attended was perfect for me. I was at the Experimental Theatre Wing in the Tisch School of the Arts and I loved every minute of it.

I will never forget walking in for the first session of KH2 and seeing that the producers had set up a bulletin board with a flow chart explaining the sequence of events in different universes and watching them almost struggle to sort it out. It wasn't that they weren't knowledgeable, they just were still unraveling the story for themselves and dealing with the huge amount of information Nomura-San puts out. That was when I personally realized how video games had reached the level of art.

Or maybe when I beat the Spirit Temple for the first time on N64....

thank you! I loved that show from season 1...I did not pick-up on the McIlhenny/Osment doppelganger situation until I read an interview where Charlie Day described Rob's being accosted on an airplane by a lady who refused to believe he wasn't me. I was thrilled to be asked to do even a promo. I thought about doing a cursory Ancestry.com search after talking to Rob and Kaitlin because both Rob and I have very very Irish ancestry.....but that probably would have been a bit creepy.

It was surreal sitting at the bar in Paddy's Pub after watching that show for years and years and years. The cast is the opposite of their characters, I might add. Such nice people.

I enjoy his "Troll Foot" selfies

no no quite the opposite: the experience was better than http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BebHkKHnqa4

It is weird to think that this is the character I've been with the longest! It's a great series though and I hope it goes on and on and on.....I did a play in Philadelphia a few years ago ( "Red" by John Logan) and we had a talkback after one Student Matinee....every single question was "WHEN IS THE NEXT ONE COMING OUT?" I enjoyed that.

Yes it was quite a stroke of luck. The casting agent just happened to see the Bigfoot Pizza Hut commercial I was in at the time (my first job) and she called me in. I have a pretty amazing piece of Forrest Gump movie memorabilia I might tweet on July 6 (the film's 20th anniversary).

oh golf handicap, I forgot: technically 11 right now but I fell way out of practice in college. The Chelsea piers triple decker robot driving range is fun but didn't keep me up to snuff---spending more time in LA these days so hopefully i can get my game back.

Pumpkin. My mom makes a killer pumpkin pie.

I used to catch fence lizards growing up in California with a bamboo pole and humane snare (only catch-and-release!) . Then I got serious at about age 8 and got a leopard gecko. They are great pets if you're into reptiles. This is true: I still have that same lizard (Pete). He's 18 years old and they live even longer.

Din's Fire

This is something I look forward to digging into now that I'm on twitter. Here are some of the things I'm listening to right now: (I'll add throughout this AMA)

My Bloody Valentine - mbv Arthur Verocai - Arthur Verocai Little Dragon - Ritual Union Thundercat - Golden Age of Apocalypse Suburban Lawns - (good luck finding this one, I almost couldn't!) Joey Bada$$ - (lots, probably 1999 most frequently)

anything by Flying Lotus Tame Impala, Four Tet, longtime Radiohead fan, Le Volume Courbe, Broadcast (really underlining this band, often find people haven't heard of them. Tragically, Trish Keenan passed away a few years ago.)

stereolab, ultraista, Altitude Sickness

i'll surely be pestering the world with my playlist recs on twitter in the times to come...

ingMob, WuTang, Jdilla, Madlib, DamFunk, death grips

Michael Parks is in the film TUSK, which i just finished: at dinner one night in North Carolina I discovered that the "Charlie" and "Bill" and "Miles" he was referring to in a conversation about Jazz were Mingus, Evans, and Davis, respectively. He knew them as friends. The "Martin" that he referred to as an acquaintance was Dr. King. Michael Parks is an amazing man. We listened to Mingus' The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady in its entirety late one night in a tiny motel during shooting. One of those experiences you feel would allow you to die happy.

thanks for the recommendations!

yes, yes, yes and yes. great choices!

Before We Begin, Living Room, Accidentals are some of my favorites.

yes !

i will thanks!

Stanley Kubrick actually wanted a robot! but technology couldn't get to his level so they had to make do with me...

Kevin and Helen were equally inspiring and kind on that project---I've met Kevin Bacon and worked with his wife (Kyra Sedgwick) but we've never had scenes together. He's great too though, obviously. And a good guitarist. Does that put me one degree away from him or two?

oh god whoops you're right

typing too fast haha--if i edit that, is it considered bad form?

HD-DVD player...

It is. I saw a rough cut two days ago. Immediately knew my Mom and my girlfriend will both not be able to sit through it!

The Orwells - Remember When

I'm actually not sure how this came to be --It's all three of my real, birth certificate names.....in my personal life I'm just called "Haley"

thank you! was it Delion? I went by recently and it looks like a whole new store? Weird how different all the spots are along 8th st and waverly etc just a few short years since I was at NYU! If it was Delion, I feel like I went in there at 11AM five days a week during my break. Often I would be waiting for a bialy next to Spike Lee. I think he was editing "When The Levees Broke" in our building. Very nice guy.

now that would be a great AMA....has he done one?

sometimes people think I am the little Forrest who wore the leg braces! So I guess there were 2 mini-forrests in that film.

the number of times i have screamed "RI KUUUUUU"...

Kairi's great too....not playing favorites

Kairi's great too....not playing favorites

i think you'd have to ask Conan

I was at a press conference with Tobey Maguire last week and learned that he was also on Walker! a rite of passage...

he got to be a "cigarette smoking tough in a leather jacket" however. I died of AIDS.

A college friend of mine named Maya Erskine is on Betas....she is quite an actress----I don't think we will ever know if we were a hit or not because Amazon doesn't have to reveal it! Gary Trudeau said that they will not even be telling him. I broke from my custom and actually looked at our Amazon reviews and stars and there were around 10 000 and most of them were very positive so I feel good about a second season. I absolutely love that cast: Goodman, Matt Malloy, Mark Consuelos, Clark Johnson, Yara Martinez and many more who deserve a mention ; we all get along and have a lot of fun too which is always nice!

to clarify: Amazon does not release the data on how many people downloaded the show, but my impression is that many, many did!

the idea is that a bunch of actors in the 1970s were hired by eric jonrosh to make a miniseries that would not only rival the greatest works of television, but put Shakespeare, Dante, and Milton to shame. Modern viewers can probably tell that Jonrosh failed mightily in his aims....so my work as an actor was : Haley Osment playing Marty Comanche who portrayed Winston Morehouse in: The Spoils of Babylon

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Kevin loves movies so much....he is also one of the most easygoing and friendly guys you'll meet. I did an interview with him yesterday on his new show SPOILERS that was great fun--

In general I have a lot of mixed feelings about "FAME" and who we choose idolize and pick apart as a culture, but for me personally it's just one of the aspects of our industry and I don't mind people coming up and wanting to talk about a movie. People are almost always very nice about it.

I saw a fellow young actor, Jack Gleeson from Game of Thrones, speak very eloquently about this at Oxford Union

I'm sorry for that! Morticians get an unfair rap----just ask the Fishers...

I saw an interview with a mortician in LA Weekly or something years ago. His response to one question has stayed with me. They asked him if seeing all the ways people die made him afraid of accidents and the like. He said No, in fact it made him feel more at peace with his imminent death because it really can happen at any time--HOWEVER, one common accident that really upset him and changed his driving habits was seeing small children that had been run over in parking lots, since they were shorter than the mirrors. So look over your shoulder when backing out of that space!

I saw the excellent Kubrick exhibit at LACMA last year and they had one room dedicated to AI---it featured a bunch of drawings Kubrick had commissioned in the early 1990s and it was thrilling to see that Steven had perfectly captured what Stanley had envisioned 20 years ago. Kubrick was never going to direct it; he told steven it should be "A Stanley Kubrick Production of a Steven Spielberg Film," and I think Steven was absolutely true to everything he had planned with Stanley, even if some aspects (like the robots at the end) exposed him to criticism that it was "sentimental" or that the designs recalled Close Encounters. I think people would be surprised if they knew the details of who-added-what during the development process because Stanley was becoming a (little) bit more hopeful and Steven was exploring darker territory than people were used to. Usually the children don't get buried under a glacier for 2000 years in Steven's films!

There were rumors at the time that I was connected but they were untrue. Rowling was (rightly) adamant about the actor being British from the beginning, and I was already shooting AI. Side note: Dan Radcliffe is a terrific guy. Great on stage too.

Having Michael Caine say what he said was one of the great honors of my life. That category was pretty special that year, as I worked with Law and Caine in the years following the nomination. Tom Cruise was also very kind to me and my family throughout that award season, as was Michael Clarke Duncan. RIP: he was a lovely guy and great actor.

Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Lakers, LA Kings, New York Football Giants (since before those super bowls! just beat the bandwagon)

Glad to see Kershaw will be around for a good while!

thank you so much! I will tell her!

lots of fun---i'd definitely like to go back sometime----his fans probably already know this but he has some serious cars in the studio/garage...I recognized one from Seinfeld's great new show (same make, not the exact car)

Lot of very solid, basic Pizza places in my neighborhood in nyc....where I get creative is the sauces....banana ketchup, habanero, many obscure types of BBQ sauce. A homemade BBQ chicken pizza can be pretty great--

no apology necessary!

It was crazy, but being a little kid meant that I wasn't suddenly going to Hollywood functions etc....I was just going to school. That was probably a good thing.

I did understand the ending....we had something like 2 or 3 weeks of relaxed but thorough rehearsal before shooting and that can really make the difference. Some actors and some movies benefit from consciously avoiding rehearsal, so that the material is fresh ....but most movies would benefit from studios recognizing rehearsal as a worthwhile investment in the actors....another great book on movies was written by the wonderful Sidney Lumet.....he casually mentions a MONTH of rehearsals at the start of 12 Angry Men or a film like that. That doesn't happen very much these days. When people watch films from the 1970s (and other decades of course) and go "wow, why isn't acting that good in most movies today? (very generally speaking. a point to the contrary: 2013 was an outstanding year) I would argue that it is frequently because of the lack of rehearsals. Many of those extraordinary supporting actors in movies like Dog Day Afternoon had long careers in theater and were used to massive preparation before performing it onstage or onscreen. That's why even the smallest little parts are so full of life.

wrong! :) I thought Unbreakable was terrific, and though Night did a lot of films in the same genre as the Sixth Sense, he really has amazing range as a director and I expect we'll see that play out as his career goes on.

working on it...

sent them the info, waiting on that blue icon...

thanks for the tip! the resources here are just boundless

as a kid, my favorite was stegosaurus....now with the wisdom of a few more years: no one messes with a velociraptor

My parents moved from Birmingham AL to Los Angeles in the early 80s so my dad could run a theater on santa monica boulevard----it started there and once i was randomly put into a commercial and things sort of took off, my sister followed soon after with commercials and other things of her own. I don't think anyone planned it this way but it has worked out very well and Emily has done fantastic work in her own right! she is working in the Caribbean right now on a series for Sony/Crackle