{"id":9743,"date":"2014-11-02T15:18:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T23:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviesharkdeblore.com\/site\/?p=9743"},"modified":"2014-11-02T15:18:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T23:18:31","slug":"haley-joel-osment-no-longer-seeing-dead-people-just-a-thriving-career-exclusive-11-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/interviews\/haley-joel-osment-no-longer-seeing-dead-people-just-a-thriving-career-exclusive-11-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"HALEY JOEL OSMENT no longer seeing “dead people”, just a thriving career – Exclusive 1:1 Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you hear the name, Haley Joel Osment, thoughts typically turn to a\u00a0 cherubic, fresh faced, yet fear-filled little boy who \u201csee[s] dead people\u201d in the streets of Philadelphia.\u00a0 Some may envision a smiling little boy named Forrest hopping on to a school bus as a doting father looks on, while others recall a young boy with a pet lion and all under the care of two \u201cSecondhand Lions\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 Although it may seem like it\u2019s been a while since we\u2019ve seen or heard from Haley Joel Osment, nothing could be further from the truth.\u00a0 Osment has been as busy as ever with various web series, voice work and school, and now, as a young adult in his mid-20’s, a plethora of new film projects.\u00a0\u00a0 During what many perceived as an \u201cout of sight\u201d time period,\u00a0 \u201cI was very busy in that time.\u00a0 It was just doing things that nobody would hear about.\u00a0 I was in New York doing theater and going to school and everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Haley Joel Osment at the Los Angeles premiere of “Tusk”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But now , Haley Joel Osment is very much back in the limelight.\u00a0 \u201c I\u2019m really happy and excited at this point, because all of that was a run up to what\u2019s going to be happening now.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s sort of learning certain things off on my own that I wanted to add to what I had being\u00a0 lucky enough to work when I was younger.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m grateful that people have been liking the work recently and everything and are accepting of it. \u201c<\/p>\n

Despite a meteoric rise to stardom as a child, Osment stayed grounded and focused, keeping his eye on the future and his education, particularly when as so often happens, childhood cuteness becomes teenaged unemployability.\u00a0 \u201cCollege, certainly, made it impossible to be out here looking for films for the four years I was there.\u00a0 And an unexpected development was that I just discovered that New York was the place for me to live.\u201d\u00a0 But it wasn\u2019t all books and academia in college as Osment was heavily involved in theatre and film department.\u00a0 \u201cThat was a great period, again, to work with people my age in college and everything.\u201d\u00a0 But on graduating, Osment fell right back into the constant hubbub of work he had as a child.\u00a0 \u201cOnce I graduated we had a couple really cool years come right out of the gate.\u00a0 Since the beginning of 2013, we\u2019ve just had a really fun run of projects and everything.\u00a0 And interestingly, a lot of them have been revolving around comedy, which is sort of new for me, [although] \u2018Forrest Gump\u2019 aside, some of the first stuff I did as a kid was three or four years of network comedy, \u2018Thunder Alley\u2019 and all of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Haley Joel Osment as “Forrest Jr.” in “Forrest Gump”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On being reminded that he also did comedy in a little show called \u201cMurphy Brown\u201d, Osment studiously notes, \u201cIt\u2019s different when you\u2019re a kid and a sitcom is different from a film.\u201d\u00a0 Jumping ahead to the present and his career trajectory which now includes web comedies, shows like \u201cAlpha House\u201d and even films like \u201cSex Ed\u201d, Kevin Smith\u2019s deliciously irreverent \u201cTusk\u201d or his upcoming \u201cYoga Hosers\u201d, all of which feature Osment in key roles, \u201c[W]ith these, it wasn\u2019t so much stepping away from drama and studio films.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a really good time for comedy right now.\u00a0 When I was in college, a lot of people were doing \u2018UCB\u2019 and starting there. Now, everybody has their web series.\u00a0 So, it was a time when people were really trying to generate a lot of comedy material and that was a world I became comfortable in.\u00a0 Something like \u201cThe Spoils of Babylon\u201d wouldn\u2019t have been made ten years ago. . .It\u2019s just a time where people are willing to accept odder hybrids of comedy and everything. That\u2019s really exciting for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adding theatre to his repertoire, one has to wonder if that \u201clive connection\u201d or \u201cimmediacy of reaction\u201d has emboldened Osment\u2019s skill set or make him now yearn for one performance medium over the other.\u00a0 When it comes to \u201cTusk\u201d and the story genesis in podcasting, Osment is thoughtful, noting that with capturing the essence of podcast, theatre has proved an invaluable tool for \u201cthinking on your feet\u201d equating it to \u201cmaking sure that your voice hits the back wall when you\u2019re performing in a theater.\u201d\u00a0 Expounding, Osment points out, \u201cTheater, and having gone to college and studying theater, which was just a wonderful experience, theater acting and film acting just sort of inform each other.\u00a0\u00a0 There\u2019s things that you learn about detail.\u00a0 On a film set, the fact that you do a couple of takes to prepare yourself to hit it that time on camera [is one side of the coin], whereas, in theater, you have to sustain emotion over many performances over many hours on the night, and for weeks or maybe months. It stretches you out in really fun ways and it can sometimes even be hard to predict which tools from each will suddenly become useful.\u00a0\u00a0 One thing I noticed on [\u201cTusk\u201d] was the importance of physicality which you learn in theater.\u00a0 Your whole body\u2019s always important, but in theater, it\u2019s always visible to everyone and in this one, I\u2019m always finding detail in that. Even our action chases and everything, it\u2019s important to be mindful of the character\u2019s physicality.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Haley Joel Osment as “Teddy” in “Tusk”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s obvious just in listening to the timbre and tenor of his voice as he speaks about it, that \u201cTusk\u201d is a film he not only thoroughly enjoyed being a part of, but holds dear, especially when talking about his character of \u201cTeddy\u201d and his relationship with the character portrayed by Genesis Rodriguez.\u00a0 \u201cTeddy\u2019s a kind of a stoner [laughing].\u00a0 There\u2019s this funny dynamic\u00a0 where he steps in and becomes Genesis\u2019 guy, but he\u2019s too afraid to fly,\u00a0 too afraid to hold or fire a gun.\u00a0 He was, initially, supposed to be unable to drive, but it turned out Genesis couldn\u2019t drive the set car, so I had to drive that one out of necessity.\u00a0 It\u2019s this kind of guy who\u2019s the counterbalance to Justin Long\u2019s character and has more heart and everything, but isn\u2019t completely sure of himself. And he\u2019s thrust in sort of this high-stakes situation where has to sort of pull it together and be brave.\u201d\u00a0 The character development for Teddy \u201cstarts with that podcast.\u201d\u00a0 But then, \u201csometimes, just the clothes they give you helps.\u00a0 They give you this stupid sweater with little rings on it and everything that seems like guys who hang out in their garage and smoke weed every day all day. . .There is this turn where they get plucked from this comfort zone and thrust into this sort of frightening scenario. That was a lot of fun to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

While many may be surprised at the extensive literary references, texture and profound subtext running through \u201cTusk\u201d, Osment was not.\u00a0 \u201cI was really happy to see that.\u00a0\u00a0 Kevin always has something to say. . . I just loved how focused it was. . .Things just all got layered on top of each other and has this really cool structure where we start off with the podcast, which is where what generated the idea for the movie. And we contrast that with someone of Michael Parks\u2019 generation where it\u2019s all old-world tradition and storytelling.\u00a0 The podcast doesn\u2019t even really make sense to him. That\u2019s sort of integrated into the sort of morality of what Justin Long\u2019s character does and the immediacy of what he does and how he exploits people to get famous and everything.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t surprising to me, because I know how smart Kevin is.\u00a0 I\u00a0 was really pleased that that was how the movie would be. . . Oddly enough, it was a walrus, but [Smith] found the right thing for what he wants to say! [laughing]”<\/p>\n

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Haley Joel Osment and Genesis Rodriguez (l. to r.) in “Tusk”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Given Haley Joel Osment\u2019s legacy to date, and in light of \u201cTusk\u201d and watching Justin Long be transformed into a walrus, one has to ask:\u00a0\u00a0 What\u2019s scarier or funnier?\u00a0 Seeing dead people or seeing Justin Long as a walrus? [laughing hysterically] \u201cI guess it hits you on different levels.\u00a0 With \u2018The Sixth Sense,\u2019 it was more personal with people, because everyone has that thing of people died and things you want to say to them or something.\u00a0 With Justin, the walrus is sort of a visceral \u2018Ughh\u2019 sort of thing. And it\u2019s such a perfect choice of animal, because if you turn him into a chicken or a lion or something, it wouldn\u2019t have the same [effect].\u00a0\u00a0 There\u2019s just a grossness to it!\u00a0 This animal that has certain anatomical similarities to a human being, but is not.\u00a0 It\u2019s more of a nauseating thing, whereas \u2018The Sixth Sense\u2019 was spiritually upsetting.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Haley Joel Osment as “Cole Sear” in “The Sixth Sense”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Reflecting back to his first reading of \u201cTusk\u201d complete with reading about the walrus transformation and on to discovering a petrified walrus penis hanging on a wall, the ridiculum and hilarity isn\u2019t lost on Osment.\u00a0 \u201cI would compare that moment to the first scene.\u00a0 I think Kevin [Smith] and Quentin [Tarantino] are in the same world with what they think is funny and the excitement they get\u00a0 in making movies.\u00a0\u00a0 That great scene in \u2018Inglorious Basterds\u2019 where they\u2019re very serious and they have a long talk in France and then Christoph Waltz goes \u2018Do you mind if I smoke?\u2019 and he pulls out this stupid clown pipe? [In acting] there\u2019s this thing where you go and you\u2019re serious and they kinda throw this, \u2018What about this? What about that?\u2019 at you.\u00a0 Reading that in the [Tusk] screenplay, initially, that made me laugh and I sort of knew the thing that [Smith] was after, that you\u2019d have this serious undertone, but never leave it completely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finding that balance of drama or gravitas and humor in a script has great appeal to Osment.\u00a0 \u201cEven in a movie like \u2018Schindler\u2019s List,\u2019 Steven [Spielberg] has humor all over that movie. If you\u2019re keeping people in this horrible, dark place for the whole movie, it\u2019s impossible to get through. I would even say that in the worst situations, people do find humor. Most people do find levity.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that you need a punch line in every joke in every movie, but I do say that movies that feel the most complete, from a cinema going experience, have those moments of humor. With Kevin [Smith], some of his intelligence, no matter what he\u2019s dealing with, there\u2019s something he\u2019s going to find funny to pull out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having worked with the cream of the crop in television and film from Robert Zemeckis to Steven Spielberg to M. Knight Shyamalan to Barnet Kellman, and with directing on his own horizon, Osment finds that \u201cEach director really has their own way of running a set.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been so lucky.\u00a0 I can\u2019t think of a bad experience with a director, but they all have their own ways.\u00a0 As somebody who\u2019s interested in doing that someday, you have a certain atmosphere you want on the set.\u00a0 You have a certain way of dealing with your actors.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that does any one thing better than the other.\u00a0 It\u2019s just that you can see how a director\u2019s individual personality and artistic approach defines how a set runs.\u00a0\u00a0 With Steven [Spielberg], it\u2019s this epic scale of five stages running at once; the way he could manage the revolutionary CGI that they were doing at the time, but also think about the story and incorporating the Kubrick influence and what they had started there.\u00a0 It was amazing to see someone manage something that big. On a film like [\u2018Tusk\u2019], it\u2019s much smaller.\u00a0 There\u2019s a little bit more detail and we\u2019re pulling it apart and all these long takes and everything. I feel lucky, as an actor, to have lived through both of those experiences and I know that many more are possible, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Haley Joel Osment as “David” in “A.I. Artificial Intelligence”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So just when will Haley Joel Osment make his movie behind the camera?\u00a0 \u201cUnfortunately, some things in the film business are contracting.\u00a0 Less movies are being made in town than there used to be. Paradoxically, it\u2019s also never been easier to get your act together, and if you have a small amount of money, and make something if you\u2019re realistic about how many time jumps and CGI you can have, if you\u2019re realistic about a budget, you can really get it done.\u00a0 So, for me, ever since college, there\u2019s been things I\u2019ve been interested in making.\u00a0 I just want to find the right time and circumstance. And what\u2019s been nice is that I\u2019ve been too busy in the last two years to get beyond just the drawing board.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, as he sits here at the ripe old age of 26, with an eclectic and successful body of work already to his credit, what is the greatest gift that acting has given Haley Joel Osment?\u00a0 \u201cExperience. . .That was another thing about college.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t just about what you\u2019re learning in class.\u00a0 Being that age and having a life where it\u2019s not just in L.A working on film sets, where I had real things happen to me in a community of people that weren\u2019t just trying to make movies and everything, that experience helps the acting.\u00a0 But from an early age, I got to go places and meet people that you\u2019d be lucky to spend years trying to stitch all those things together.\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s the biggest thing I\u2019m grateful for, because it just threw me into these situations that I wouldn\u2019t have found myself in had it not been for this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Michael Caine and Haley Joel Osment in “Secondhand Lions”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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