We all know Haley Joel Osment as the boy who saw dead people in The Sixth Sense. But where has he been since? He's been at college and I just caught up with him to hear all about dorm life and his return to showbiz. Haley, I got to know you along with the rest of the world in The Sixth Sense. Take me back to what it felt like being world famous at 11 years old.

It was crazy. I mean, cuz cuz when we made that film, uh the script was of such a high quality, uh, you know, and and the sort of environment that we had on set suggested to us that it would be making something special. But the box office that it did and the awards nominations and everything, that that sort of came as a total surprise. I think even for night, who was very confident about how good the movie was, you know, having it stay at number one for six weeks and all those things was was a really wonderful surprise. So, in that environment when you're when you're not expecting it, you're just sort of along for the ride and and uh I I remember the whole period very clearly cuz it was just kind of madness, you know, that that movie was all over the place and uh, you know, and and for me it was something that, you know, we had a very personal experience on that I had, you know, really strong memories of and then it just sort of became this international thing.

And, of course, your phrase, your catchphrase from the film became a real phenomenon on its own. Did did you ever get tired of people saying, I see dead people?

No, it's, you know, it happened a lot at the time and and what just took us by surprise is that when we shot that scene, nobody was going, "Oh, that's the line." You know, it was it was an important line for the scene, you know, and if if you would really stopped and thought hard about what would the tagline, you know, what the tagline was was eventually going to be, we probably could have guessed it, but we just weren't even thinking that way. We were making the movie. There was a really excellent kind of rhythm and flow to the way that movie, uh, came together. And, uh, nowadays, you know, the places I see it pop up are you know, that Tiger Woods said it in that Chrysler commercial and my my one of my favorite players on the Dodgers, Yasiel Puig, appeared on the big screen during some like trivia thing in, you know, during the seventh inning stretch and said it. I was like, oh, so it's just it comes out at odd places now.

And you never get you can still identify with it?

Yeah, yeah.

So here you are at the top of your game and you say, you know what, I'm going to go to college. How does that happen?

Uh, I mean, my mom's a sixth grade teacher and my dad actually studied theater in college. They were both very pro college. I don't think there was ever really a question about whether or not I was going to do it. And, you know, I went to a high school that was a college preparatory. So the whole experience there was about getting ready for, you know, applications and, you know, thinking about it very early on, the experience. So it happened naturally. Um, and I didn't really think too hard about the, you know, the consequences for the roles that you're going to be getting and everything, cuz going to college for four or five years on the other side of the country, it it certainly takes you off of casting director's list and everything. And for me it was worth it because, you know, studying theater in college and having that social experience, um, which has helped me so much now, just have a really grounded private life and everything. Uh, I'm really I'm really glad that things turned out the way that they did.

Now, I'm excited to be here because arts and education really opened up so many doors for me and, of course, for our amazing guest today. You know, not many people can say that they've been nominated for an act for an Oscar, that they've worked with everyone from Kevin Spacey to Steven Spielberg and that they've starred in major blockbuster films like The Sixth Sense and AI. But all of this holds true for our amazing guest today. Give it up for Haley Joel Osment. Good. Hi. Nice to see you. Good to see you guys. Starting off with the bell. But, Haley, let's jump right into it. What was the biggest challenge of becoming a college student?

Um, there were a lot of them. Uh, it's really just and it was the cool thing about just like when you come here, even though you're living in the dorms and you have that kind of, you know, those training wheels that that college, you know, offers you as you as you adjust to a new city. I enjoyed the process of learning how to just, you know, run your own life and be in charge of your own thing and everything and it's just all the all the new experiences that you have in college are really uh, you know, it's just I think about it as one of the the greatest times in my life for that reason because it's when you become the person that you're going to be.

How did you rebound so quickly from being a student to becoming a movie star once again?

I had great, uh, you know, agent, manager and now publicist that, uh, you know, just really understood my thinking for going away to college and doing that and and trusted me and I'm really grateful for that because they, you know, put together some great work and it was just sort of reintroducing me to to the, you know, uh, casting directors and and people in in Hollywood and everything and I just got lucky because this is a really great time for comedy in particular and getting things like The Spoils of Babylon and Alpha House and, uh, I guess Tusk isn't necessarily a comedy, uh, but Entourage does have that feeling and everything. So I just got a series of roles that I think, um, I I was lucky for people sort of being willing to see me in a position they hadn't seen me before and in a type of role they haven't seen me before and and now having them come out, I think is sort of broadened people's, uh, experience with me beyond, you know, the roles I did when I was younger.

Your sister, Emily Osment has followed in your footsteps to become a very successful actress. You know, Emily was recently at the Young Hollywood studio in Los Angeles. Because we are Young Hollywood, you're young and hungry. I'm going to say young and and I'll have you describe them with one word. Oh, oh no. Okay. Okay. Your brother. Young and awesome. Oh, you behind that him too, which is totally. He's great. He really pretends like he doesn't like social media, but every time we're together he's like, "Hey, can you read?" Like, "Hey, did you take Can you take Can you send me that picture?" Well, on that note, how about we take a selfie? Let's take a selfie. Let's take a selfie. One, two,