Author: Fair
Date: 06-08-03 14:32
Stumbled across this new Haley interview at the Chicago Sun-Times website. It is a short enough article that I'll just copy and paste the whole thing below. 
It is quite interesting as Haley talks about Secondhand Lions, and he even mentions some of his plans for the summer and beyond. Go Haley!
Osment will have more voice in roles
June 8, 2003
By CINDY PEARLMAN
Further proof that time is marching on. We pick up the phone and the deep, rich voice on the other end isn't exactly James Earl Jones. But it isn't a little twerp child actor, either.
"It's true that my voice changed," reports 15-year-old Haley Joel Osment, otherwise known as the "I See Dead People" kid from "The Sixth Sense." "It didn't change all at once. It sort of snuck up on me. Now, people don't even recognize me when I call."
They will recognize his pipes in "The Jungle Book 2," which is due out on video Tuesday.
"I watched the first 'Jungle Book' about a million times when I was a kid, so when the offer came along, I was like, 'oh, yeah.' "
Osment also just wrapped the much awaited film "Second-Hand Lions" with Michael Caine and Robert Duvall. As for the plot, he reports: "My mother sends me off to live for the summer at my uncles' house. But my two great uncles are crazy old men. They don't want to be fathers, even for a few months.
"Also, in their younger days, these two used to have adventures, but now that they're older, they have been forced to retire at this ranch.
"When I come along, they're too angry to deal with me," he says. "The other problem is that I'm this wimp kid and they're tough men. But, we get to understand each other. They teach me how to be a man."
As for on-set antics, Osment laughs when asked if Caine filled him in on all his wild days of youth. "Michael Caine is the best. His character tells great stories, and Michael kept telling his own stories after the cameras stopped rolling."
What about Duvall? Referring to the actor-director's "Assassina-tion Tango," Osment says, "He didn't give me tango lessons, but we had the rap party at this honky-tonk place. He's a great dancer."
Osment plans to take this summer off "and squeeze a vacation in." He plans on looking into colleges soon. "I'm not sure how acting will work with school, but I definitely want to get involved in a drama program somewhere. School is cool, I don't want to miss it."
Distributed by Big Picture News, Inc.
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