HALEY JOEL OSMENT in "Pay It Forward".

Haley Joel Osment together with Kevin Spacey & Helen Hunt in a drama with an
-i guess- possible idea to change something for a better world; to learn the spirit of charity...

The book author from "Pay it Forward", Catherine Ryan Hyde in a "YouTube" message to me, about Haley Joel Osment:

I met him twice. But that's not quite the same as knowing him. My impression is that he was
very polite and had a good head on his shoulders.

And at H.J.O.'s internet page
( http://www.kidactors.com/haley/ )
Catherine Ryan Hyde wrote:

I first heard the name Haley Joel Osment in 1999, shortly after the release of his breakout film, THE SIXTH SENSE. Thing is, I heard it everywhere. Casting was in progress for PAY IT FORWARD, the film based on my novel of the same name, but I was not involved. I was just keeping my fingers crossed. I started getting calls and e-mails from friends who said, You have to see The Sixth Sense. You have to see this kid act. You wont believe how good he is. They have to get him as Trevor. Tell them to get Haley Joel Osment. I saw the film. I couldnt believe how good he was. But it wasnt my job to cast the role of Trevor. I could only hope.

A month or two later, I heard that Mimi Leder, the director of PAY IT FORWARD, had a meeting with Haley. On November 19th it was official. Haley was by then a respected celebrity actor, and I was lucky enough to see him portray my vision of the 12-year-old who changes the world.

Behind every sudden success is a long road spanning many hard years. I knew that Haley Joel Osment didnt come out of nowhere to co-star with Bruce Willis in THE SIXTH SENSE. I had seen him in the T.V. sitcom THUNDER ALLEY, and playing Tom Hank's son in the hit film FORREST GUMP. I had also seen him in BOGUS, the 1996 film that starred Haley alongside Whoopi Goldberg and Gerard Depardieu. Or maybe its more accurate to say they starred alongside him. The movie revolved around Haleys character; he was on screen for almost the entire film. BOGUS could well have been his breakout film. But somehow it was THE SIXTH SENSE that got the attention of almost everyone on the planet. A supporting-actor Oscar nomination followed, and woke up the one or two who might have been left over. When he was first cast in PAY IT FORWARD I would say, Haley Joel Osment Pause. the kid from The Sixth Sense. Then the praise would flow. By the time PAY IT FORWARD premiered, I just said, Haley Joel Osment. There was no time to say more before the praise started. There was no need.

But the story goes back further--all the way back to a shopping trip Haley took with his mom when he was only four. They passed a video screen test-people in search of new talent. Haley asked his mom if he could give it a shot. He stood in front of the camera and read some lines. Soon after, he got a call for the Pizza Hut commercial that launched his career.

In addition to his early movie work, he also did TV guest appearances on MURPHY BROWN as Murphys son, Avery, and on ALLY MCBEAL as the dying boy who sued God. He also completed two made-for-TV movies, THE LAKE, and CAB TO CANADA.

When I first met Haley, we were on the set of PAY IT FORWARD. The Las Vegas shooting had wrapped, and the cast and crew were shooting interiors in a version of the McKinney home built on a Hollywood sound stage. The E.P.K. (electronic press kit) crew was on the set that day, and after my own interview I was invited to watch Haleys. A little crowd gathered, just listening to him--and being impressed. How could someone so poised, so articulate, so calm and professional, be eleven? He seemed almost like a grown man in a kids body. By the time I left that day Id watched him chase Kevin Spacey back and forth across the set, Id watched him jump onto Kevins back declaring, I am Leech Boy, and you cant shake me off. (Not entirely true-he ended up hanging head-down from Kevins waist before it was all over.) I watched him take off on his bike across the lot. Before Kevin Spacey left to chase him in a studio golf cart, he said of Haley, Hes a forty-year-old midget. Im not sure which impresses me more-that Haley has an intelligence and professionalism far beyond his years, or that underneath it all he is a genuine, spontaneous, fun-loving kid.
Since then weve seen him blow everyone out of the water yet again as the non-human David in Stanley Kubricks A.I., the Steven Spielberg-directed drama about artificial intelligence. From the minute they showed his face on screen, I had goosebumps. The real challenge of this role is that David began as a machine with no emotions at all. When his mother programmed him with a series of random words, he was nothing but emotion, and his love for his mother became the driving force of his existence. Yet whether he played artificial intelligence with or without emotion, I was always able to see that in his face. He never just played the role as a human boy. Can another Academy Award nomination be far behind?

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[cyunfan2011]

非常好啊

[GoldenAUroranias]

@cyunfan2011 : 谢谢你! H.J.O. is the best!

❤ to China!

[candyglazed]

we watchedthis at school

[GoldenAUroranias]

@candyglazed : ... & I'm sure you like this movie, right?

Best... MH. ツ

[Pilotpatty1]

Haley Joel has so much personality!

[GoldenAUroranias]

@Pilotpatty1 : ...& so much talent! This & many other very nice features of him makes him very likeable!

[PeaceLoveALEXw]

I LUV this movie but i wish the boy didn't have to die!

He was so sweet!

[Coolskyii]

Thank you~

[ktlovesnickj]

Beautiful close up of his face at 1:05

Has sexy eyes!!<3

[nirvnafan]

He has so much personality!

[koopatrev]

hes so cute

i wish he was born in 2000 so hed be 11 by now

[arboschool]

great movie - a emotional soundtrack - haley joel osmont is a great actor

[lulabearlove]

i love this movie and the book so much, but the ending made me so upset that i wrote a letter to the author of the book and she responded and she justified it for me:) i love this movie SO much! but they changed the book waayy to much:/ hes so good at crying in all his movies:)

[lulabearlove]

i love this movie and the book so much, but the ending made me so upset that i wrote a letter to the author of the book and she responded and she justified it for me:) i love this movie SO much! but they changed the book waayy to much:/

[GlobalAndy]

HES STILL ALIVE

[candyglazed]

It was sooo sad Trevor died at the end. :( lol