Creator and star Mae Martin and costar Sydney Topliffe take on Lynn and Cole Sear's emotional car conversation in a recreation approved by Collette herself. Wat

Creator and star Mae Martin and costar Sydney Topliffe take on Lynn and Cole Sear's emotional car conversation in a recreation approved by Collette herself.

Watch Wayward stars recreate classic Toni Collette Sixth Sense scene: A 'homage to our queen'

Creator and star Mae Martin and costar Sydney Topliffe take on Lynn and Cole Sear's emotional car conversation in a recreation approved by Collette herself.

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Toni Collette and Haley Joel Osment in 'The Sixth Sense'. Credit:

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*Wayward* creator and star Mae Martin recreated costar Toni Collette's memorable car scene from *The Sixth Sense* alongside a committed Sydney Topliffe in between takes of their hit Netflix miniseries.

Martin, nailing the hand movements of Collette's matriarch, shared the amusing recreation on Instagram, calling it a "homage to our queen and hero" Collette, who stars in *Wayward* as the sinister headmaster of an academy for troubled teens.

The scene in question involves the teary exchange between Haley Joel Osment's young Cole Sear and his mother, Lynn (Collette), in which the young boy discloses that he is often visited by ghosts.**

"The ghosts, they tell me to do things," Topliffe says as a young Cole. "Do you think I'm a freak?"

"Look at my face," Martin says as Collette's Lynn. "I would never think that ever. Got it?"

"Grandma says hi," Topliffe adds to a stunned Martin. "She comes to visit me sometimes."

"Cole, that's very wrong. Grandma's gone, you know that," Martin responds, with the two soon launching into the emotionally loaded sequence regarding the grandmother's funeral.**

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"She said you came to the place where they buried her, asked her a question. She said the answer is, 'Every day.' What did you ask?" Osment asks in the scene, prompting a sobbing Collette to reply, "Do I make her proud?"

In the caption, Martin revealed the recreation was filmed at 2 a.m. in the "freezing cold" during a "crucial scene" for *Wayward*. Given the car setting, the two appear to be filming the finale episode, where Martin's character fantasizes about an escape from their cult-ish small town. "I think you'll agree it's our strongest work," Martin wrote.**

Toni Collette responds to Mae Martin and Sydney Topliffe's recreation.

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Collette herself responded in the comments section, praising the recreation as "phenomenal." She wrote, "I love both of you. This is actually pretty good!!"

Martin created and stars in *Wayward* as Alex Dempsey, a transgender police officer who moves to the small town in which his pregnant wife (Sarah Gadon) grew up, discovering that the idyllic community is not all as it seems. At the center of the mystery is Collette's Evelyn Ward, the enigmatic headmaster of an academy for troubled teens occupied by Topliffe's Abbie, who also attempts to unearth secrets of the sinister academy.**

Mae Martin and the cast of 'Wayward' in Toronto in September 2025.

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Netflix published a report earlier this week that crowned *Wayward* as the No. 1 show on the English-language list, citing 8.2 million views.

Collette, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in *The Sixth Sense, *recently looked back on the film while promoting* Wayward,* revealing in an interview with Tom Power that she initially did not realize the 1999 classic was a horror film during filming. "I just thought it was a beautiful, spiritual story," Collette admitted with a laugh.

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