Haley Joel Osment said that he heard from Bruce Willis a lot in the years after they appeared in 1999s The Sixth Sense, with Willis calling his co-stars house just to check in.

The actor reflected on the voicemails Willis left from time to time as he spoke to Entertainment Weekly for a story published Friday, in honor of the M. Night Shyamalan thrillers 25th anniversary.

He would just call out of the blue, so sometimes it was in the lead up before travel, said Osment, who added that they went to Japan together twice to open The Sixth Sense in different cities.

So he would call ahead of that, and then sometimes I would just come home from school and the answering machine would be blinking and itd be him going like, Hey, Haley Joel. Just saying hi.

Osment, whose performance as Cole Sear earned him Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations, said that working with Willis was fantastic.

Osment was 10 years old when The Sixth Sense was shot but said he was old enough to have seen a lot of Willis films, so there was excitement around working together.

And thats something that lasts your entire career, where you get to work with people who youve enjoyed watching in other things, Osment said.

And it made a huge impression on me because that was the first gigantic celebrity that Id worked with at an age where I was aware of his stardom. And he did everything in such a cool way, and had such charisma, and was the person that you want on set setting the tone for the sort of movie we were making.

Osment told EW that he hadnt spoken to Willis since news broke of his recent health battles.

Willis family announced that he was retiring from acting back in 2022 after he was diagnosed with aphasia. His family later said that Willis condition had progressed to frontotemporal dementia, which can result in trouble communicating, unusual behaviors and emotional problems, according to the National Institute on Aging .