The child star famous for the line “I see dead people…” in The Sixth Sense, is now re-surfacing as a fully fledged adult actor in new indie flick Sassy Pants.

Haley Joel Osment stars alongside young actress Ashley Richards, best known for her role in TV series ‘Awkward’, in this comedy about a homeschooled teen with an over-bearing mum and a gay dad, played by Napoleon Dynamite’s Diedrich Bader.

Barely recognisable from his Sixth Sense days, we’re treated to a now 23 year old Osment sporting piercings, tattoos and a lot of flesh as he plays a young gay lover.

Considering his acting career began at just four years old, when a talent scout scooped him up and landed him the part in a Pizza Hut TV commercial, it has always been clear Osment was destined to be a child star – but progressing from child actor to successful adult actor is a whole different ball game.

Bagging that commercial may have launched his career – shortly after he starred in TV sitcom Thunder Alley, and then progressed to his first feature film role in Forrest Gump – but it’s been a long-awaited return to the big screen for the Oscar-nominee, whose last major role was over a decade ago in A.I. Artificial Intelligence.

Since then, his acting career has seen him venture into voiceover work for video games and cartoons, and when efforts to revive his on-screen acting career began with ‘Montana Amazon’, he failed to leave an impression.

But, having just seen the Sassy Pants trailer, the team at Talent Management think Osment has proven that the child actor curse can be broken with a little determination.

When the casting was announced last year, co-producer Rob Eric told Variety: “This role allows him to break out of his shell and he will have no problem handling it.”

So it’s official, as far as Talent Management is concerned, the ‘Sixth Sense’ kid is most certainly back in the limelight!