Still Crushing on Logan Lerman (2024)

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By Danielle Cohen, a writer for the Cut who covers pop-culture news and entertainment. Previously, she wrote about wellness, fitness, and their intersection with culture at GQ.

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I’m staring at Logan Lerman’s hair. I can’t help it. His gently tousled waves are a little distracting, but what I’m searching for is the hint of gray that made itself known on Instagram in the early days of the pandemic. Finally I muster up the courage to ask him about it — not just for me, a woman who spent more than enough time scrolling through GIFs of Lerman on Tumblr in the early 2010s, but for all of us on the internet who scrolled through GIFs of Lerman on Tumblr in the early 2010s. “It’s white,” he corrects me, though it’s dyed right now for a project he’s filming. “Like, shock white. It started when I was, like, 17. It’s right here in particular,” he gestures, moving from the center of his hairline back to the top of his head. “I’ve got a streak, and it’s peppered all around.”

Lerman has just come downstairs from his hotel room in a dark-green crewneck sweatshirt and jeans, looking the tiniest bit like he recently got out of bed. He is, he admits before ordering a rooibos tea, a little hung-over. The actor has come to New York to promote the second season of Hunters, a pulpy Prime Video series about a team of ’70s-era misfits who track and kill Nazis secretly living in the U.S. The night before meeting me, he joined his co-star Al Pacino on The Tonight Show and afterward, eager to shake off the discomfort of being interviewed in front of a live audience, downed a few martinis with his girlfriend at a bar frequented by the SNL cast. Lerman is generally soft-spoken, but he’s chatty this morning, his blue-gray eyes, framed by long lashes, widening in reverence when he talks about literally any movie (he just saw M3gan and “loved it”) and his face scrunching up when he’s thinking about his answer to a question.

The actor — and his hair — became the subject of internet swooning in 2012, when he starred as the moody, troubled Charlie in The Perks of Being a Wallflower. The close-cut mop he wore back then made him look like your best friend’s brother:neater than the Bieber swoosh, goofier than the gelled-up Twilight guys, and distinctly alluring to tweens. You couldn’t throw a stone at a Tumblr feed without hitting a grainy screenshot of Charlie leaning out a car window, the movie’s most clichéd quote written in white italic typewriter font across the bottom.

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The early 2010s were big for Lerman: In addition to starring in Perks, he led two Percy Jackson films — adaptations of young-adult fantasy novels that seem to have marked the last major Hollywood franchise he’ll star in for a long time. He went on to appear in a steady stream of projects, learning to choose his scripts very carefully. At 20, he began reaching out to writers he loved, hoping to either find his next great role or produce a movie that excited him. “A lot of my friends were in entry-level positions at agencies and production companies,” he says, “and I’d be like, ‘Send me the submissions.’” He started dabbling in production, shepherding some scripts to fruition by meeting with writers who couldn’t get their work off the ground and repackaging the concept to make it more appealing to financiers. A lot of them didn’t make it, including a passion project he worked on for four years. “That was my baby,” he says. “I learned a big lesson: Never work with people that don’t know what they’re doing.”

Lerman relays his role in the industry machinery with the calculated logic of a moviegoing mathematician: Script plus talent equals budget. Blockbuster plus Instagram followers equals value. By the time the phrase private equity comes out of his mouth, he self-consciously apologizes for being boring. Listening to him, it’s hard not to feel cynical. Is this really the same guy who minutes earlier held his hand to his chest and said he’d be happy “doing anything in film”? For all his romantic feelings about movies, deep down Lerman is a pragmatist. “It’s just the reality of the industry,” he says comfortably. “There’s a business element to this career.” But what really keeps him going, he says, is just to “get up and go to work. It’s like watering the plants. Little by little, things happen: Doors open, doors close, things get better, things get worse. Just keep going.”

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Photos: Caroline Tompkins.

Photos: Caroline Tompkins.

While Lerman chipped away at labyrinthine Hollywood bureaucracy, his career as an unwitting thirst object found new life in TikTok fan-cams. “I don’t really know Tumblr that well,” he tells me innocently, but these days he’s “aware of what I’m tagged in.” In other words, “I look at shit.” In 2020, he moved to L.A. with his girlfriend, Analuisa Corrigan, an artist whom he’d been seeing for seven months at the time. With all in-person filming off the table, he finally stopped dyeing his hair, prompting a spike in Twitter attention. It was welcome news for anyone who had been infatuated with the cute boy from Perks, who was now peacefully dating a ceramicist and confidently going gray at 28.

As far as internet boyfriends go, there is an element of restraint to Lerman’s general presence in the public eye. That’s why it’s such a delight to see him pop up every so often in a seemingly random cultural moment, like nerding out about the fight choreography at the premiere of Bullet Train, the summer himbofest that featured Lerman in a small role, or dancing to Kelis’s “Milkshake” to promote the second season of Hunters, slipping around in socks and a sweat suit with some Jon & Vinny’s takeout lingering in the background. It’s hard to explain what exactly is swoon-worthy about a nice-looking dude dancing in his kitchen, but the context Lerman offers for the video is appropriately innocuous: “I was just dancing to the song in my kitchen with my girlfriend, and she was just filming,” he says, shrugging. “I don’t wanna just post the trailer. That’s so boring!”

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Hunters is a somewhat alternate history that departs further from reality in its second season, which revolves around the theory that Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, were alive and well in Argentina as late as 1979, plotting the Fourth Reich. If there are any grand ideological messages to be taken from the show, Lerman says, it’s the fact that it gives visibly Jewish characters big over-the-top action sequences — not something you typically see onscreen. “I take pride in the sense that we’re doing something on the scale of Mission: Impossible with Jews in the lead,” he says. Lerman, who was raised Jewish but has considered himself an atheist since he was 9, doesn’t actively seek out Jewish roles in his career but admits they do have a tendency to come his way. When I ask if his own beliefs influence his approach to these roles, he leans back and speaks hesitantly. “I don’t share the genuine faith that those characters have,” he says. “But I understand it and believe it in the moment.”

Now that Hunters is out, Lerman will head back to Bucharest, where he’s filming a series adaptation of We Were the Lucky Ones, a novel about a Jewish family separated during World War II. Alas, the role requires his hair to stay dark until at least June. Beyond that, he has his eyes on slightly lighter fare: his first real rom-com role, in which he’ll play one member of an ill-fated threesome with Bridgerton star Phoebe Dynevor. He’s cautiously excited but quick to remind me that “everything’s kind of up in the air until you’re there.” Like the project’s titular ménage à trois, its existence depends on a lot of moving parts that may or may not fall into place.

Before we part ways, Lerman offers a hug good-bye. Breakfast, he tells me, is on Amazon today. Looks like the industry does have its perks.

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FAQs

Did Logan Lerman get engaged? ›

Percy Jackson might be able to wield water, but Logan Lerman sure can't. The 32-year-old, who got engaged to longtime girlfriend Ana Corrigan last year, recently shared how he popped the question during the couple's trip to New York City—and it didn't go as expected.

Who is the guy that looks like Logan Lerman? ›

Dylan Minnette and Logan Lerman have more in common than just both being young actors in Hollywood. You know Dylan from Selena Gomez's new show, a little series called 13 Reasons Why (have you heard of it?) and of course, Logan from his roles in Percy Jackson & the Olympians and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

How old was Logan Lerman when he shot Percy Jackson? ›

Lerman was 17 when he played the role, while his character's friends were played by Alexandra Daddario and Brandon T Jackson, who were 23 and 25, respectively.

Does Logan Lerman have gray hair? ›

While throughout his career Lerman has stuck to a short, dark hairstyle, Corrigan's new pictures revealed the actor now has longer wavy hair. The actor, who is 28, now has prominent grey hairs and was recently snapped in a pensive portrait in the Instagram gallery shared by Corrigan.

How long have Logan Lerman and Ana Corrigan been together? ›

Perks of Being a Wallflower actor Logan Lerman is engaged to ceramics artist Ana Corrigan after more than three years of dating. Watch: Most UNIQUE Celebrity Engagement Rings: J. Lo & More!

Why is Logan Lerman not in Percy Jackson? ›

However, Lerman says he hasn't aged enough to take on the role. "I get people asking me all the time if I'm gonna play Poseidon, and I'm like, 'Am I old enough to play Poseidon?,'" he told Esquire. "I don't think I'm old enough for that one! I wouldn't cast me in that role if I was part of the creative team.

Why is Logan Lerman so popular? ›

The early 2010s were big for Lerman: In addition to starring in Perks, he led two Percy Jackson films — adaptations of young-adult fantasy novels that seem to have marked the last major Hollywood franchise he'll star in for a long time.

How does Logan Lerman feel about Percy Jackson? ›

I can't imagine a better fit for Percy Jackson than Walker. You were so brilliant in The Adam Project. I hope you like eating blue food the next few years because I think you have a hit show on your hands.”

Did Logan Lerman play Percy Jackson? ›

In spring 2009, Lerman was cast in the lead role as Percy Jackson in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. The movie was filmed in 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and was released in February 2010. Lerman has stated that he was not familiar with the book series when he received the script.

How old is Grover in Percy Jackson? ›

How Old is Grover in Percy Jackson and the Olympians? In the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, Grover is 24 years old and poses as a 12-year-old. But in the books, he was 32, posing as a 16-year-old. Played by 17-year-old actor Aryan Simhadri, Grover Underwood starts as the best and only friend of Percy Jackson.

Did Percy Jackson have black hair? ›

Percy is described as handsome, with messy jet black hair, a Mediterranean complexion, and sea-green eyes like his father Poseidon. His mother notes that Percy looked just like his father, and his friend Hazel says that he has the looks of a Roman god.

How did Logan Lerman meet his fiance? ›

Logan Lerman Met His Fiancée on a Dating App | The Drew Barrymore Show.

How is Percy Jackson's hair described? ›

Percy has tanned, olive skin and disheveled black hair. He has sea-green eyes, which he inherited from Poseidon. Although he is not extremely fit at the start of the series, his training over the course of the books results in a muscular, lean frame.

Who is Logan Lerman married to? ›

Logan Lerman
Alma materBeverly Hills High School
OccupationActor
Years active2000–present
Partner(s)Ana Corrigan (2019–present; engaged)
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How old was Logan Lerman in the number 23? ›

Lerman, who was only 15 at the time of the film's release, said he "learned a lot from how [Carrey] prepared for roles" and that "being able to see how he does it, being able to talk to him, really helped me a lot" as an actor.

Is Logan Lerman playing Poseidon? ›

While Logan Lerman would surely do a great job in the role, it is a good thing that Disney+ did not cast him in Percy Jackson for several key reasons. Logan Lerman played the titular demigod in the original live-action Percy Jackson movies, with the actor starring in both films.

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