“A role like this is such a departure from what I’ve done in the past,” he continues in a baritone that itself is a departure from the soft squeak of the boy he played, in the “Sixth Sense,” at 10. “Every actor sort of leaps at the chance to do something like that.” Osment didn’t disappear from Hollywood immediately after “The Sixth Sense.” He was in “Pay It Forward” with Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt in 2000, and played a poignant part in Steven Spielberg’s “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” in 2001.
