tv Larry King Now RT January 20, 2014 9:00pm-9:30pm EST
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on larry king the lead joel osment is about is there a misconception about child stars i think if there is a misconception is that most of them come to a bad end and even nominated for an academy award that's right i remember jodie foster actually wrote me a letter when that happened that underlines the right way to go about it that you know it's kind of a bonus and not to take it too seriously and that the work is really the reason why we do this plus i played kristen wigs villainess on most of my scenes are with her and you're in a really good place when when you're in a scene with kristen way all next on larry king now. welcome to larry king now
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a special guest good to have him with us he's brought up hey been joel osment you know him of course from his breakout role in the award winning film the simpsons one of the best movies ever he's now grown up and starring in a mini series alongside kristen wig and tim robbins called the spoils of babylon as a six part series premieres january ninth at ten eastern nine center on i f c and to save you from doing the math haley is now twenty five years old wow. what was it i did have you to logic actors were kid actors and then grew up and lot of them had problems too much too soon you have a problem that way no i think i was lucky to have. great parents who never pushed me to do anything that i didn't want to and. you know just kept me focused on school and keeping a level i. and that really was something that kept me from running into some of the
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issues that you can in this business get the part this expense on our show rather than a week that's right over there and i think night night most of audition thousands of kids and i just happened to i guess catch as i meant what did you did you do a lot of stuff if you're just continue with schooling in the few years around the sixth sense i did a film with steven spielberg called a i and a lot of officials into artificial intelligence that's right and. you know if a few other films in there and just was was lucky to come across some really cool roles for the new school everything i did yeah and i graduated n.y.u. about. two and a half years ago the school yeah and i loved moving to new york now i'm going to school film i went to the experimental theater wing there so it was a tough decision between film and theater but i felt like i had enough on set experience that that would be that would be just something
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a little bit more different for me tell me about this mini series the eric john russians spoils a bubble on the weird part i'm told is there is no every genre. perhaps not in this reality in the it's a multi-layered reality i would say this is mideast explain this to me i'm told it's based on a book that doesn't exist yes i think we created an era john raj and then he created this series of incredibly knowledge or magic an epic stories and this hour one is about a texas oil dynasty and the multi you know the many generations of this family and their problems in the political and romantic intrigue that sort of is that the whole series of as just one movie that's this one i don't know how far this universe might expand the play by play. kristen wigs villainous son whose. father is sort of a mystery to him and he has sort of megalo maniacal designs on the company we're
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going to see a clip of that says the it is. this is the spoils of babylon eric john rushes the spoils above all it's watch. winston i want you to guide this company. you. keep going. back. this is a comedy yes i think you can probably tell how much fun was it fun to do oh yeah yeah we we just sort of got sid take the lid off of our you know wildest
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imaginations with these characters and we did the mini series takes place over a wide i think like fifty years or something so we all that's a go crazy with costuming and wigs a riot a called the spoils of babylon trailer a cross between a seventy blood spoof and a paul thomas anderson film. can you in a nutshell explain that it's it's very hard to put in something that small but it's kristen wig and told why are our star crossed siblings who use your own colon it's not really clear what our relationship you know and that's part of the mystery is that we're not sure who is whose father there's some adoption going on a very cold what was she like i love her or she had to work with i mean she's a rock star i would say you know and just most of my scenes are with her and you just sort of you're in a really good place when when you're in a scene with kristen way and you play an evil person as i do and that i think a lot of actors will tell you is
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a lot more fun you know i do i you know instigate all sorts of violence and trouble in this mini series the cast is you know these valves kilmore tim robbins tobey maguire michael. again. with one group fantastic and there was a cast where everybody was really happy to be there and sort of was getting to do were getting to do things that they probably didn't normally get to do on stage i mean just for example talking with wire i don't think people have seen him this wacky before and this off the wall so i he was certainly enjoying going in that direction and because of the relationship with will ferrell and funny or die there's a lot of other things sort of off camera and you know our e.p. k. got to be really creative so there's a lot of other pieces of this universe that one who does will play. i actually got not sure that i'm allowed to say because as you as you know he's not in the trailer so i think we're keeping his part a little bit under wraps until he's of he's a worker oh yeah yeah he's just. finds brilliant takes on even the most
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monday in sort of situation when you made six cents did you know that it was going to grab the public as much as it did you know the b.m. being with just while but when you got that script as a nine year old what did you think yeah my my hollywood knowledge wasn't so developed when i was nine and i mean it was something that really grabbed you even being a kid it was i had read a lot of scripts for a nine year old and that was one that sort of stuck out of bruce willis oh yeah yeah what was it like to be known you know and i guess i got used to it quickly because i started very early i did force come was my first film when i was four and we made that with a kid i was but i was really used to being on a set early and i was accountable environment for me and i guess just when you were a kid other than doing interviews and things like that there wasn't. the sort of and off screen hollywood experience that i had i still went to school and what
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about your classmates how they preach or they were excited by it but a lot of the films that i did weren't really aimed at children so i. think that they didn't see him that many of them no i mean when i did the sixth sense i don't think a lot of ten year olds on the green allowed to go in the theater for the allens you know when you look at young shows today like justin bieber miley cyrus their problems. and a lot of the early stars of past who worked in movies grew up with a lot of problems the directors treated them differently they would there's a great story in boys town the making of boys was a scene in which a kid really cries bad because his friend runs away and they got the kid to cry by telling him that his grandfather died but they lied and they created a great scene and you see those problems occurring shame early sure i mean it's a lot of pressure it's a and. you know i but i honestly believe that there are more positive outcomes
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and there are negative ones obviously we hear about the really terrible stories more than we do the good ones but a lot of the people that i've worked with just just recently in this mini series and are people who've been acting for a long time and working in california the laws are very strict you know protecting your school time and how you're treated on you know and i think a lot of those bad stories come from times before you really protected children on the way to you what do your parents do my mom is a sixth grade teacher and my dad is an actor and is that why you won't be a big push you know it was it was almost sort of an accident my my family's from alabama originally i was born in california and they moved out here because my dad was running a theater on santa monica boulevard and i was just spotted at a cattle call. they were taken polaroids of kids at ikea one day and they called me in for a cattle call thing for commercials and the forrest gump casting agents all the first commercial i did for big foot pizza pizza and it just sort of went from there
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so it's kind of an accident because you like it right away i did yeah and i know what my dad did even as a little kid knew that he. you know he did plays and and my mom being a teacher always really focused on magination you know that sort of thing so this that seem to be a logical extension they feel your success i think they they had the same concerns that you know you mentioned about what happens to kids in the business so they always were telling me you know if it isn't fun and you don't want to do it anymore you don't you know you can go back to school it was never something that they pushed me to do and i think that yeah i mean very early on it was very much driven from what you know my desire to keep doing this and keep you know i'm even nominated for an exam you order that's right always like i was crazy and that was yeah i remember that night very well and just even at a young age knowing that i think a really good you know actually i remember jodie foster actually wrote me a letter when that happened that underlines the right way to go about it that you
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know it's kind of a bonus and not to take it too seriously and that the work is really the reason why we do this and that and what my parents are saying sort of i think is the reason that i was able to keep a level head and with all that craziness going on when you doing scenes with like bruce willis was easy to be comfortable but he helped you a lot certainly yeah easy is a very good the only ones you know yeah yeah yes we had sort of a one on one in that movie i guess the secret is out now. but yeah no use really fun to be around love this is love being around kids there's a hell of a movie thank you. is there a misconception about child stars. i think if there is a misconception is that most of them come to a bad end i think that the the real situation is that most of them either act a little and go back to you know lead normal lives outside of the public eye or you know have career is you know long good careers even if they're not with the intent
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spotlight that you get as a kid so did you work while you were doing more you a little bit yeah it was it was. almost to conserve. sort of program there is academic classes too so that the workload was really big but i still did a play on broadway and one independent film i wanted to do a role where we did david mamet's american buffalo you're an american buffalo yes you play i was bobby and allen who starred in that. was john leguizamo and cedric the entertainer whose picture i saw on your wall in the green room i know you talk to the wall itself the chinos that's right and robert they've all gone back and yeah it would moments yeah you like the language oh i do yeah and being a theater student it was it was a great great opportunity up next she's back with a vengeance we'll talk about haleigh's many upcoming projects right after the break .
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you're going to see haley joel osment in the upcoming premier of the spoils of babylon which if you understand it you'll write a celeb or you know what it means but he's got a lot of things working on you were going to kevin smith film called tusk that's right that that is a it was it was shift oh it was great we've we've been trying to work with each other for for some time this is a murder a comedy about two guys with a pod cast to get involved in a really sort of touchy situation and one of the guys i had the i mean justin long have a fictional podcast and we get into some trouble you're also in the world made straight independent comedy that's a drama actually that was based on the two thousand and six book and that's jeremy irvine and no wiley that's a drama b. and b. comedy is me him her right yes yeah and you played gave last year and ceci pence
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that's right i did do you worry at all about offending the gay community and that we yeah i mean i am very sensitive to the. lack of roles that there are for you know for gay characters out there and everything so i certainly thought about it but i felt good about doing it because the character was not the butt of the joke that he had his own you know reasons for being the way that he was and had his own sort of part of the story that that made him sympathetic and three dimensional character and the filmmaker was gay as well so her view with this movie was not. pick fun did you have gay friends oh certainly they object at all no i the response was overwhelmingly positive and we did you know out in all of the gay film festivals and everything i was i was very happy that they appreciated the role and like them they feel like doing independent films i do yeah it's you know it's harder and harder to get these tiny films made without an obvious you know foreign
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distribution plan and everything but a lot of the most. groundbreaking work and sort of you know opportunities to play unusual characters comes through the independent river garbus in the world to get a movie made and yeah i mean even more these days you know that the there's this thing called the grid that agents have which show all the movies being made in the roles in them and i was talking to someone that made it seriously and i said east it was a wreck like this in two thousand and now it's like this with films being made you anything you won't do. hard to think of something off the top of my head you know in terms of playing a role you will do nude scenes really depends on the i wouldn't be looking for one but i think that i wouldn't rule it out it would be a first edition you were five right yes what is your vision for it was just saying the line that ultimately said on television which was big would be an understatement talking about a pizza in front of a white wall. that's all i had to say it would be enough to say it would be an understatement yes only additions nerveracking they can be. some of them are more comfortable than others and it just depends on how much preparation you've had to
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do if it's a last minute thing that can be nerve wracking but if you have the opportunity to really come in there prepared and memorized and having thought about the character actually enjoy the process do you read criticism or. not usually you know you usually hear about the positive and negative responses so you know the internet can be kind of a minefield with sort of searching for a building that your services are now did you know that you did well in the sixth sense i mean when you finished that did you know. yes and there's a thing i thing that actors will tell you that. the only way you can really know is you know within yourself though there are people who tell you good things and bad things in the only you can only trust that third eye that you have of knowing if you're really satisfied with the scene needed you want to do more theatre certainly yeah i mean it's hard to the process and the experience is so different between film and theater that i would love to keep mixing it up going forward do people recognize you in your different look even when you were not right to people
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recognize you or not it does it surprises me because i don't even recognize myself in those spec then but yeah people i get it's just amazes me how the sort of wide attention that film got you know that still today people remember it how do you think the crucial you think the public will react to the spoils of war on i think hopefully the confusion will be put to rest once you see the story laid out the way that it is but as the clip the more confused i thought yeah i think once you once you start you know following this story the plot will make sense and it's just it's so crazy i think people really enjoy going on a journey here don't have a facebook page no my my online presence is pretty much twitter none of those no i mean i'm not saying that i wouldn't going forward because it seems to be the primary way that people keep in touch why have you resist that hailey it's really never been in my personality you know i. you know i i think it has something to do
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with you know living in new york city a lot of my relationships are face to face you know i don't i don't really spend a lot of time on the phone at all so yeah it's there's a lot of good about it but you don't text you text i don't. impress you know how do you feel about this obsession with social media i mean there's there's good and bad aspects of it you can if you have you know a job or something that takes you far away from family and friends it's a obviously a wonderful way that you just heard lies on and through to but yeah there's a lot of i mean the attitude seems to be negative online a lot. when you have the benefit of being anonymous when you're you know right in that room i'm ok we have a lot of questions for you on social media cody joe brown on facebook do you ever see good advice from veteran actors you work with about how to proceed in the business with the business side of the not as much with the craft itself i mean i've had amazing opportunities to work with you know all the way to robert duvall
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and michael caine recently just people who've had decades and decades in the industry with film called second hand lions in two thousand and three or i missed that and michael caine i missed that michael caine shipped to me got to see this movie it's yeah you know people talk to me about that movie a lot and the whole point of that film was about. two of his great uncles stepping in and sort of helping to raise this kid in his young teens and so as an actor getting to work with people who are such a legend in the industry yeah the onset opportunity to just listen to the stories they had to tell him they want to work you know. and you blow a line as a rule and does this more i try really hard not to be. in the situation you know to remembering yeah just just the practice over the years helps you know to will train you to memorize large blocks of tags so movies have shorter amounts you have to do one to not make seventy nine twitter wants to know what your experience was like on the set of forrest gump i remember it very well i learned to tie my shoes on that
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because i was for her we shot at the gum palace which is this mansion in the swamp and in buford carolina it was a. the craziest thing i've done to my you know in my life that far and i remember i've been to tom hanks being probably the most focus actor i had seen you know at that stage also. very high very just just a really an actor that you're lucky to work with jim i just do it yes he did great . cal burley on facebook wants to know if you want to stay in the movie business long term i do you know and if it was an acting there's other aspects of it i love the whole process of making movies and putting on plays and it's it's hard to imagine me you know leaving that anytime soon and oslo tweets stanley kubrick lived directed how would they have turned vs the spielberg version two were mostly directed no actually that that's. actually glad to get that question that's a common misconception from the beginning had presented the project to spielberg as
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a stanley kubrick production of a steven spielberg film all kudos in going to direct no he wanted to and it was a big loss to everybody because this was a film that he wanted to use to come a little bit back into the spotlight and do some interviews this is what christiane kubrick has said in interviews and he died unfortunately before you come out but all what stephen's plan for the film was very very very faithful to all of the planning that kubrick had done always a door with steve an extraordinary you know and just the scale of that film we had like six stages on a one in a lot and you know hundreds of people working on this project and and special effects that were you know groundbreaking at the at the time and you know stand winston's robots in the animatronic there are just so many things that were completely unique to that i learned to scuba dive on that film like this just a crazy year long adventure given pinches so you've had
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a great life oh yeah i certainly feel grateful for the for the things that i've had you know the experiences that i've had a boy of twenty five. week on twitter wants to know if you intend to sign up on twitter a lot of people as drum up that they want to do it if they do i know i can understand i wouldn't rule it out but i probably wouldn't do it on my own accord i'd have to have to get peer pressured and we're going to show a little game called if you only knew remember the first girl you kissed yes. it was a name he was in a movie. it was his name as a lovely it was a polish girl is doing a film in poland where i played a jewish boy hiding from the nazis eleven at this little romance so they would know what happened or no but she was a fine actor so i'm sure she's doing well it was your guilty pleasure you we may not know about guilty pleasure living in new york there's so many restaurants to try i'm getting a little bit that's one thing that the internet has done for me is i love hunting out new restaurants and things like that most embarrassing moment most embarrassing
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moment there's so many isn't accurate and i can hear the secret talent we don't know about secret talent. i play the guitar you do i do you ever played it publicly i don't think no maybe a terrible why school party last time you were starstruck by some of starstruck paul mccartney pet peeve. the bugs you what bugs me early morning construction in new york. the caregivers to get appreciate most in other people. honesty band you can't stop listening to my bloody valentine you're on visit of what three things would you i do with you. books a good internet connection a limited food supply i guess but then on the road is the drug but across accomplishment graduating college if you were not what you think you'd be. right or
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is this something no one knows about you. probably a lot. in their life yeah but i went to cuba in two thousand and eleven did i want to be the judge does a nine yeah it's fascinating isn't it yeah really wonderful great seeing you again i talking to you haley joel osment to you'll see i'm next in the spoils a babylon five c premier january ninth and remember you can find me on twitter at kings things and was sheet live you'll find him on twitter someday too someday i'll see that side. well. science technology innovation all the developments from
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happy monday everyone i'm abby martin and this is breaking the sat so ever since bill maher became part of the obama million or donor club i haven't really been able to take him seriously sherm ours whole areas at times and has a good guest panels but ultimately falls short in his continuing apologist for the democratic party and that what's so dangerous about maher has made no bones in the past about expressing his inherent trust in obama on the massive spying grid as administrations overseeing which brings me to mars most recent show journalist glenn greenwald who graced a real time screens to discuss edward snowden and the n.s.a. and in a stunning display of arrogance mark claim to know more about the n.s.a. than someone who worked at the n.s.a.
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you claim that every time edward snowden opens his mouth he says something completely nuts and how does he back up that claim that stone is a lunatic or because he dared to say that the surveillance programs were quote never about terrorism or rather pro-social control and diplomatic manipulation more argues that they are about terrorism but that they're just simply gone too far unfortunately what maher doesn't seem to realize is that the n.s.a. spying has actually been proven to not be about terrorism as greenwald so clearly points out are the corporate espionage against brazilian oil companies to wiretapping angle of merkel's phone besides spine has been going on for decades terrorism was just the excuse to expand and codified in constitutional practice more than prefaces his next question to greenwald by suggesting that it's not that snowden said the government can go back in time and quote scrutinize every decision you've ever made every friend you've ever discussed something with what bill does.
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