do you guys stick to the jokes will handle them. on larry king a 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 leave enough when they did for me have you order 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 son 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 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 essential part series previous 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 a lot of 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 head and that really was something that kept me from running into some of the issues that you can in this business get that part this extends. we're on our show rather 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 have to or 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 someone that was schooled everything i did yeah and i graduated n.y.u. about. two and a half years ago great 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

a little bit more different for me tell me about this mini series the eric john rushes spoils of babylon 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 medically 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

going to see a clip of that is the it is. this is the spoils of babylon eric. john rushes the spoils above all it's watch. and i want you to guide this company. you. actually. kick. 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

imaginations with these characters and we need mini series takes place over a wide i think like fifty years or something so we all got to go crazy with costuming and wigs and write a call dispose of bubble on trailer across between a seventy blood sport and a pole thomas anderson film. can you in a nutshell explain that it's it's very hard to put in something that's small but it's kristen wigan told the wire our star crossed siblings who usually 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 card 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 him evil person as i do and that i think

a lot of actors will tell you is 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 includes val kilmer tim robbins toby mcguire michael sheen. was 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. actually come 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

mundane sort of situation when you made six sense 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 you are going to schools oh yeah yeah what was it like. to be no mean i guess i got used to it quickly because i started very early i did forrest gump was my first film when i was four and we made that with a kid i was yeah but i was really used to being on a set early and i was a constant 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 and i still went to school and what 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 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 ones you know when you look at young shows today just the bieber miley cyrus their problems . and a lot of earlier 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 boy's town of making a boy's town as 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. and they created a great scene and you see those problems occurring same 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 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 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 went back to how did the big. 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 so it's kind of an accident because you like get 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 seemed to be you know 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 only 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 it was 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 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 do it you see as we'd like bruce willis was easy to be comfortable but he helped you a lot certainly yeah he's a very witty only ones. yeah yeah yes we had sort of a one on one in that movie i guess the secrets out now. but yeah no use really fun to be around love this is. i 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 and 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 the public eye or you

know have career is you know long good careers even if they're not with the intense 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 a conservatory program there was academic classes too so that the workload was really big but i still did a play on broadway and one independent film was to do a role where we did david mamet's american buffalo you're an american buffalo yes you play i was bobby and alan who started. it was john leguizamo and cedric the entertainer whose picture i saw on your wall in the green room i know you talk to him and while it's open chinos that's right and robert duvall gone back and yeah it would move yeah you like the language oh i do yeah and being a theater student it was it was a great great opportunity up next he's back with a vengeance we'll talk about hailey'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 us a lever that way 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 that was he'll issue oh he was great we've we've been trying to work with each other for for some time and 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 am 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 journey 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 in sassy pants 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 her view with this movie was not to pick fun did you have gay friends oh certainly they object at all no i think their response was overwhelmingly positive and we did you know out in all of the gay film festivals and everything and 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 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 or in darkest in order to get a movie made yeah i mean even more these days you know that the there's this thing called the grid that agents have a show all the movies being made in the roles in them and i was talking to someone it made and seriously they said it used it was a wreck like this in two thousand and now it's like this with films being made

going to be you won't do. hard to think of an 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 audition 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 or you know that that's all i had to say it would be enough to see 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 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 have. 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 poem that your search for the now did you know that you did well in the sixth

sense i mean when you finish that did you know i'd mailed is yes and there's a thing i think 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 and the only you can only trust that third eye that you have of knowing if you really satisfied with the scene you did you want to do more theater 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 i mean you're different look even when you were not right to people recognize you or not it does it surprises me because i don't even recognize myself in those inspect them 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 will remember it how do you think the critics are leaving 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 it's the clip more confusing i thought yeah i think once you once you start you know following this big story the plot will make sense and it's just it's so crazy i think people really enjoy going on a journey here you 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 halley it's really never been in my personality you know i. you know i i think it has something to do 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 yes. it's there's a lot of good about it but you don't text i do text i don't pass that i'm 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 to you because i heard lies on and through too 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 and michael caine recently just people who've had decades and decades in the industry with them film called second hand lions in two thousand and three or i missed that and michael caine i missed that michael caine said 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 have such a legends in the industry yeah the onset opportunity to just listen to the stories they had to sell and they want to work you know. and you blow a line as a rule and does the 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 to do well trained it's and to memorize a large blocks of text of 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 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. cry. as you think i've done to my you know in my life that far and i remember of because tom hanks being probably the most focus actor i had seen you know at that stage also and very kind yeah very just just a really an actor that you're lucky to work with jim i just do it yes he did great

. cal berkeley 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 any time soon and oz grow tweets stanley kubrick lived directed how would they have turned versus 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. presented the project to spielberg as a stanley kubrick production of a steven spielberg film crew there was a lot of 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 cooper has said in interviews and he died unfortunately before you come out but all

what stevens planned for the film was very very very faithful to all of the planning that kubrick had done always like to work with stephen 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 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 for a twenty five. twitter wants to know if you intend to sign up on twitter a lot of people as drum up that they want you to do what 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 were going to show a little game called if you only knew remember the first girl you kissed yes it was

a name it was in a movie. whose name was 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 it was you would know what happened or no but she was a fine actor so i'm sure she's doing well it was a 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 moment there's so many isn't accurate and your secret talent we don't know about a secret talent. i play guitar you do i do you ever played it publicly i don't think no maybe it's a terrible i school party last time you were star struck i saw a star struck paul mccartney pet peeve. what the

budget to 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 does it of what three things would you i do with you . books a good internet connection a limited food supply yes then on the road is the example but across accomplishment graduating college if you were not what you think you'd be. right or 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 brightest thousand and nine yes fascinating is a beautiful city yeah really wonderful great seeing you again i thought india haley joel osment to you'll see i'm next in the spoils of babylon i have see premier's

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