Acting is not child’s play, although Haley Joel Osment It didn’t seem like anything else. The Angeleno debuted at the age of four, in an advertisement. The casting director had a habit of asking young candidates what was the greatest thing they had ever seen. Many mentioned a skyscraper and the luckiest or most inventive, a whale. Haley Joel Osment He replied that, in his case, it was a movie screen. That gave him his first role.
For at least a decade, Haley Joel Osment had a slice of Hollywood to her name. He was the king of children who wanted to be kings. He worked for Spielberg and Shyamalan, he faced Kevin SpaceyTom Hanks, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe or Bruce Willis and he was one of the youngest performers to be nominated for an Oscar. But something happened. It’s still not very clear what. Maybe a movie theater screen was too big for him after all.
This is how Haley Joel Osment has changed
Michael Caine It deprived him of a historic triumph by winning the Oscar for best supporting actor. Haley Joel Osment, who had just worked with Maureen O’Hara on a television film, was placed under the orders of a young director with a resonant name: M. Night Shyamalan.
In The sixth sensea film notorious for its unpredictable outcome, Haley Joel Osment surprised everyone. The viewer was used to children with self-confidence, who did not shy away from the cameras. But there was something more about Haley Joel Osment. He had real talent.
Steven Spielberg He was one of those who thought so and, two years later, he made a film with Osment. It was titled AI Artificial Intelligence and it is, perhaps, the actor’s best role. In this ultra-modern version of Pinocchio, Haley Joel Osment was unable to grow up.
They had designed him to be, eternally, a child. And they did it so well that they succeeded: although he is now 36 years old, when we think of him, we don’t see the plump, prematurely aged man that Haley is today. We see a child.
Although she has had minor problems with the law, Haley Joel Osment’s file does not explain why she suddenly disappeared from the movies. Or, rather, why the great child actor Haley did not give way to a great actor named Osment. Yes, there are movies and series on his resume, and this same year he has sneaked into the shyamaniana Blinks twicebut none of this is an answer.
Gone is the brief glory that Haley Joel Osment enjoyed when, perhaps, he was too young to appreciate it. Although, as his character did in AI Artificial intelligenceit is possible that he too exchanged a few hours of complete happiness for a lifetime of silence.
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