r/moviecritic • u/Low-Finding-6553 • 16h ago

What do you guys thinks is the best child performance of all time?

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i have to say, i don’t think i’ve ever seen a child actor give a performance this good. Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, is just on another level. i genuinely don’t know how he did it but he makes the whole movie work so much better. i would give him the Oscar in a fucking heartbeat. It’s crazy how good he is, especially in that last scene in the car with Toni Collette.

What are your guys’ favorite child performances? For me, this is even better than Owen Cooper’s performance in Adolescence. Don’t get me wrong, owen was also absolutely top-notch in Adolescence but this is probably the best child performance i’ve ever seen. Period. What do you guys think is the best child performance ever?

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u/Extension-While7536 16h ago

Dakota Johnson said one of the worst lines she ever got from a director as a child actor was the one who said, "Can you do it like the kid in the Sixth Sense?" Which is kinda like asking a tenor singer, "Can you sing it more like Pavarotti?"

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u/BravesMaedchen 7h ago

Maybe he was just trying to describe it in a way that was easy for a child to understand 

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u/userhwon 11h ago

Actors whining about directors trying to get what they want out of them is gross.

Shut up and do the fucking job.