Haley Joel Osment, the young actor who shot to stardom when he played young Cole Sear in The Sixth Sense, confirms that the twist ending to the horror film wasn’t a strategically guarded secret during production. While many may question how the secret was kept without special measures, the 1999 release date was long before the arrival of social media, which probably helped a lot. Osment himself believes that a number of factors, from a glorious lack of spoiler culture to the disbelief that the project could be a hit, combined in the perfect way to ensure that many audiences did not discover The Sixth Sense‘s rug-pull twist until they saw it in cinemas.
Haley Joel Osment says that during the production of The Sixth Sense there weren’t any methods to keep the film’s twist under wraps. Read More