While Haley Joel Osment was displaced by the Los Angeles wildfires, he is grateful he now gets to spend more time with sister — and current roommate — Emily Osment.
“Because I lost my house in the fires, I’ve been living with her for the past a couple months,” Haley Joel, 36, exclusively told Us Weekly while attending the Poker Face panel at PaleyFest on Saturday, March 29. “So she’s been very generous and helping me out there. She’s fantastic.”
Haley Joel has enjoyed getting to cohabit with Emily, 33, as they focus on their careers, adding, “She’s great. Her show [Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage] is just wrapping up season 1 right now. Great community of people there.”
While the siblings have leaned on each other off screen, they have yet to showcase their bond in front of the cameras Haley Joel acknowledged how long fans have waited in the hope that he would share a scene with Emily in any of their individual projects.
“It’s funny that we have never had a scene together on screen,” he quipped to Us. “We were both in The Kominsky Method and we were in a wedding scene together — but we didn’t have any interaction. I know something will happen eventually because she’s great and I’m so proud of everything she’s done.”
Both of the Osment siblings got their start as child stars, with Haley Joel appearing in Forrest Gump and The Sixth Sense before his more recent opportunities, like Blink Twice and season 2 of Wednesday. Emily, for her part, was on Hannah Montana before transitioning to more mature projects, including Young & Hungry and now Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage.
Despite not working together yet, Emily and Haley Joel haven’t ruled it out as a future possibility. They are currently focused on their own projects though, with Emily’s CBS sitcom being renewed for a second season amid her split from now-ex-husband Jack Anthony and Haley Joel making a guest appearance on Peacock’s Poker Face.
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“I’ve had the opportunity several times to go on a show that I had just enjoyed as a fan. What We Do in the Shadows is like that, too. You watch the first season and then a couple of weeks later you’re like, ‘Oh, I’m on the set now,’” Haley Joel told Us. “That is kind of a fun experience. But I love Natasha [Lyonne]’s work and everybody involved with this show is so cool. I love a murder mystery and gory stuff, too. It’s cool being a part of that atmosphere.”
Haley Joel’s upcoming episode pairs him off with Taylor Schilling and Justin Theroux, which he teased to Us, saying, “Everybody was great. We had a really fun lineup in our episode and getting to work with Natasha after watching her and all of her work for all these years is just really exciting because she’s such a creative person.”
He concluded: “I play a social media influencer entrepreneur bro who is getting married but he’s using the wedding to advertise an energy drink he just came up with. He’s kind of on thin ice with the rest of the wedding party.”
Poker Face season 2 premieres on Peacock Thursday, May 8.
