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Haley Joel Osment : An Actor Comes Of Age

This 12 minute 38 second special feature on Haley Joel Osment looks back at what Tim McCanlies calls Haley's " impressive body of work" . Featuring interviews with Haley Joel Osment himself and Tim McCanlies, this fascinating short feature reveals how mature and professional Haley is as an actor.

As Tim McCanlies himself says , " Haley is not just a kid who's been in a couple of hit movies ..... He's an actor , a real actor's actor . "

Charming, intelligent, articulate, always respectful and generous in his praise for his father, his director and his fellow actors, Robert Duvall and Michael Caine, it's obvious from this special feature that Haley Joel Osment is the consumnate professional , but more important than all that , he is unspoilt in spite of his fame and achievements as an actor , and is genuinely a good person.

As he himself says, " You've got to keep your record clean , because it's your responsibility to anyone who's ever to watch your film. It's something you sign on to when you work on a film , when you get into this business , that is something you take with the acting , the responsibility of a life outside of that, so I guess that, it's a little more pressure, but its good pressure, its motivation to do good things .... not that I wouldn't anyway..."

"Walter's transition in this story is really important to me as an actor and as a person ... " says Haley , " because as a person, I am growing up and I am going through a big transition in age, and being a teenager now, these changes happen very rapidly. "

"Walter's transition in this film , his fundamental aging, from a pathetic boy to growing up to being a man... all of that is really important to me because it starts a new chapter in acting and it begins a phase where I will be doing more mature roles. "

Having worked with and gotten to know what drives Haley Joel Osment , Tim McCanlies was confident Haley's future in films was bright. " Because he is very smart, because he's picked the right roles and will continue to do that, whether he ends up directing or being an actor , or both, in the future.... he is so smart and so together, that I don't really see him falling by the wayside like so many of these young stars do . "

Ending the interview, Haley's sincerity was evident when he said , " One of the things my dad has always taught me in the 11 years that I have been acting, is that the work is the reward.... and acting is one of the few things that you can do, that the work itself is what is enjoyable . The best part about it is that the work itself is the reward. It really is a phenomenon , and it's what makes acting so unique and enjoyable and so different from anything else you can do..... and I really felt that on Secondhand Lions. "


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