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Haley Joel Osment Says There Was No Strategy to Keep ‘The Sixth Sense’ Ending a Secret During Production

Haley Joel Osment tells IndieWire how there was no "press strategy powwow" to keep the ending of "The Sixth Sense" a secret during production.

“I really don’t remember there ever being a meeting or a talking-to or a press strategy powwow about keeping that secret,” said Osment, who stars in Zoë Kravitz’s upcoming #MeToo-centric island thriller “Blink Twice.” “A lot of that was the era that we lived in. And 1999 was the same year when the title of a track from “The Phantom Menace” score by John Williams revealed the late-act death of Liam Neeson’s Qui-Gon Jinn weeks before people even saw that “Star Wars” film. Just 10 years old when “The Sixth Sense” filmed on location in Philadelphia in 1998, Osment said he wasn’t sheltered from the reality of the script the way, say, Stanley Kubrick coaxed Danny Lloyd into believing “The Shining” was a family drama, and not an ax-murderous horror movie.

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