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He never acted in any other film again, but the face of Michael Conner Humphreys will forever be in the minds of movie lovers. Because being only an eight-year-old boy he was chosen to be part of the cast of Forrest Gump, playing the child version of the protagonist after attending a casting to play "a young Tom Hanks with clear eyes and a peculiar disposition".

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The discreet private life of Haley Joel Osment, the child from The Sixth Sense and Forrest Gump

  • Writing: FÁTIMA ELIDRISSI Madrid

The discreet private life of Haley Joel Osment, the child from The Sixth Sense and Forrest Gump

That is, the boy Forrest who was born in Alabama, who had to wear braces on his legs, who met his "very best friend" Jenny on the school bus, who taught Elvis Presley to move his hips while staying at his house...

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At 39, Humphreys, born in Mississippi, lives today totally away from acting. In fact, it was after finishing the Robert Zemeckis film and spending two years traveling to attend promotional events and interviews when he decided (we imagine that his parents had something to do with it) that Hollywood was not a good place for him because it was not "a healthy lifestyle for children". All the children at school recognized him by his character and his grades worsened.

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Like his character, the young man enlisted in the US army in 2004, he revealed in an interview with The Sun, where he served for four years, including 18 months in Iraq. When I joined the army, I did everything I could to avoid being recognised or word getting out about the film, but I think it lasted about two weeks before anyone realised," the former actor told a MailOnline interview in 2015.

Daily Mail account that it is not the only connection that Humphreys has with his remembered character, as he has also participated in marathons, although we suspect that nobody shouted that "run Forrest, run".

With a degree in International Relations from the University of North Alabama, it seems that a few years ago he became interested in acting again and even participated in 2011 in a film, Explorers, in the company of strangers, which was not successful neither critically nor publicly.

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He has also focused his artistic vein on the theater, where he debuted in 2015, with the play If All the Sky Were Paper. He continues to study acting and participate in small theatrical productions, according to the specialized website Sensacine.

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