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How Logan Lerman used papayas and 'Sex and the City' to woo his fiancée
How Logan Lerman used papayas and 'Sex and the City' to woo his fiancée

Yahoo

time5 days ago

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  • Yahoo

How Logan Lerman used papayas and 'Sex and the City' to woo his fiancée

The "Oh, Hi!" star became engaged to artist Ana Corrigan in late 2023. Logan Lerman isn't one to play games: If he's into you, he'll make it clear. In an interview with Bustle published on Friday, the 33-year-old actor revealed the 'totally weird' lengths he went to 'lure' his fiancée, ceramist Ana Corrigan, into spending more time with him early into their relationship. 'When my fiancée and I were early on dating, I used to lure her to hang out with me by getting these really special papayas. I'd order them and take photos and send them to her and be like, 'Look at these papayas! You want to hang out tonight? I mean, I have really good fruit,'' he told Bustle. But Lerman didn't stop at 'special papayas' to maintain Corrigan's interest. 'I'd be like, 'God, how can I message her?' This is psycho, but I'd record the opening to Sex and the City as if I was watching it, even though I wasn't,' he said. 'I'd be like, 'Hey, I'm watching Sex and the City…' and try to hang out that way. There's some really crazy shit that I've done, but we all do crazy shit when we're in love.' Lerman's Bustle interview isn't the first time he's publicly spoken about his and Corrigan's relationship. The Perks of Being a Wallflower actor, who cites not liking movies, music and concerts as red flags, revealed on The Drew Barrymore Show in 2024 that he and Corrigan met on a dating app. It wasn't long before Lerman knew he wanted something serious with her. 'Honestly, right away. I knew right away. I swear, I really did,' Lerman told Barrymore. Lerman's luring tactics seem to have left a lasting impression on the 30-year-old artist: He and Corrigan became engaged in late 2023. 'We ended up in Central Park. My fiancée pointed out the rowboats, and I was like, 'Oh, let's do it.' And that's when I learned I don't know how to row a boat at all. I was terrible at it,' Lerman said of the proposal during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2024. Corrigan ended up rowing the boat, while Lerman regretfully sat back. 'Finally, she rowed us to a quiet part of the lake there, and I popped the question. It was great. It went really well,' Lerman added. 'She said yes. Thankfully.' Lerman's starring role in the upcoming dark comedy Oh, Hi! marks a departure from his real-life, hopeless romantic self. In theaters July 25, the film stars Molly Gordon as Iris and Lerman as Isaac, who embark on their first romantic getaway together. But their blissful weekend turns sour when Isaac reveals that he isn't actually looking for something serious. Iris then handcuffs Isaac to the bed before desperately trying to show him all the ways they're actually compatible as a couple. 'I had a lot of empathy for those people that I dated in the past and have hope for them to get to a place where they can be happy in a relationship,' Lerman told Bustle. 'I had the same thing with Isaac. I was like, 'I really hope that he can get to a place where he can be happy with someone.'' Solve the daily Crossword

New Only Murders In The Building stars will 'define' season five
New Only Murders In The Building stars will 'define' season five

Perth Now

time16-07-2025

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  • Perth Now

New Only Murders In The Building stars will 'define' season five

Renee Zellweger, Christoph Waltz and Logan Lerman "will define" the new season of Only Murders In The Building. The trio of actors are joining the cast of the beloved Disney+ murder mystery comedy alongside returning stars like series leads Martin Short, Steve Martin and Selena Gomez, and a Disney executive has promised great things. Craig Erwich - Disney Television Group President in charge of ABC and Hulu Originals - told Deadline: "The show has reinvented itself every year with new characters and new mysteries. 'This year, it takes on a whole different side of New York City that I think people are going to really enjoy with some returning cast members, but we have some new stars too. "Among them, Logan Lerman, Renée Zellweger and [Christoph] Waltz, who kind of become the troika that I think will define this season. It's really, really funny.' On Tuesday (15.07.25), Only Murders connued its success with seven more Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including a fourth Oustanding Comedy Series nod in a row. Craig added: 'It's incredible that Only Murders has been nominated every single year since it entered the race. "Maybe we become used to it in some ways, but it should be considered a new achievement every year.' Meryl Streep will be among those returning for the fifth season, after joining in season three as struggling actress Loretta Durkin. Co-creator John Hoffman has previously spoken of his delight at watching Meryl and co-star Martin film together. He told Decider: 'You know, it is one of the most unexpected turns but I remember thinking, like, 'God.' "As I got to know Meryl, as I've known Marty and as I watched the two of them work together in season three, I just — it was unbelievable. "They just delighted in each other on screen, off screen in every way.' Meryl even thanked John for giving her the opportunity to have a love interest in her 70s. He said: 'I remember one night we were shooting on the ferry in episode five of season three. We shot until about 2 in the morning on the most gorgeous night in Manhattan. 'I got off to gangplank there and Meryl was waiting and she had tears in her eyes and she said, 'I just had to wait here for you to get off the boat to say thank you.' "And I was like, 'What?' and she said, 'I just got to play a scene I really thought that the likes of which I wouldn't have a chance to do. "'To play romantic scenes at this age with this band in this way, it's just the greatest thing ever.' '

‘Oh, Hi!' Review – Molly Gordon & Logan Lerman Riff ‘Misery' In Cute But Contrived Comedy
‘Oh, Hi!' Review – Molly Gordon & Logan Lerman Riff ‘Misery' In Cute But Contrived Comedy

Geek Vibes Nation

time13-06-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Geek Vibes Nation

‘Oh, Hi!' Review – Molly Gordon & Logan Lerman Riff ‘Misery' In Cute But Contrived Comedy

The problem with a movie like Sophie Brooks' Oh, Hi!, which will screen on Friday, June 13, at the Tribeca Film Festival, is that its flaws are precisely what make it interesting. It's opening moments tell us everything we'll ever need to know – a girl (Iris, played by Molly Gordon) has done something bad to a guy (Isaac, Logan Lerman), and needs help dealing with the consequences, she tells a friend over the phone – yet 93 minutes of a feature film are due to follow. Sure, we're eager to learn the details of this foreshadowed deed, but we already know something is bound to go wrong, and thus spend the entire film attempting to piece the mystery together for ourselves. What happened between Iris and Isaac that led to this desperate, panicked phone call? Where is Isaac now? Better yet, is he alive? How soon will we begin to notice the signs that lead us toward the twist that the film has already promised us? And, once we get there, will the tease have been worth it? If you've seen 1990's Misery, and if you have any bit of experience as an amateur cinematic sleuth, the trail of breadcrumbs won't be all that difficult to track. It's not that Brooks' sophomore feature is entirely devoid of originality, nor that it's lacking in fun or watchability. The latter two certainly apply more to Oh, Hi! than the idea of novelty, but as T.S. Eliot famously said, 'Good writers borrow, great writers steal.' This isn't to suggest that Brooks' film is a plagiaristic exercise in revamping the tale that made Kathy Bates at least somewhat synonymous with the ax-wielding crazy type, but that Oh, Hi!'s writer-director is so keen to show the hand of the works that inspired her that her own creation feels like a retread on principle. By teasing the fact that chaos is coming, especially before her opening credits have rolled, Brooks displays a fundamental lack of trust in her prospective audience that renders the remainder of her could've-been exhilarating ride a predictable wash that happens to star a slew of charismatic young actors. One only wishes she had let them show us what they were capable of in a more linear fashion. With that in mind, let's start at the beginning for those who remain interested: Iris and Isaac have been seeing each other for a little while now, to the point where both of their moms know the other by name and their individual friends have met their S.O.s at least once. We're at the point in the courtship where it doesn't seem to be that big of a deal when Isaac plays along with the flirtatious gal at the strawberry stand he and Iris pull off the highway to peruse, especially because he makes a semblance of an effort to show that he's as interested in the girl on his arm as she is in him. When they arrive at the upstate Airbnb they've rented for their first weekend away together, Iris and Isaac immediately begin playing house; they have sex within minutes of their arrival, stock the fridge once they've finished, take a dip in the pond out back, and mutually mock the creepy neighbor (David Cross) who assumes they're skinny dipping in his presence. They weren't, but they could have been, not because it's legal – Cross's Steve assures them it isn't – but because they seem comfortable together. The romantic chemistry between Gordon and Lerman might not be anything to write home about, but they make out and discuss their previous relationships enough that you're led to believe this is going somewhere. That is, until they head upstairs for a late-night romp, one where Iris consensually handcuffs Isaac's wrists and ankles to the bedposts, and he reveals something of a whopper: He's been seeing other people and isn't exactly looking for a long-term commitment. Given that they've been dating for four months, Iris is taken aback and baffled by the notion that this length of time couldn't possibly mean more to her boyfriend (or so she thought) than a casual fling. Furious, she leaves Isaac bound to the bedframe before running downstairs to spiral further. If Iris' mental state wasn't made clear by her tears and heavy breathing, she straight-up Googles 'how to get a guy to realize that he wants to be with you,' a spelled-out representation of what's coming next. If Misery doesn't quite do it for you, imagine Gerald's Game with a dash of Fatal Attraction, plus the specific sight gag of Vince Vaughn being knotted to a headboard in Wedding Crashers, and you've painted a fairly accurate picture. The arrivals of Geraldine Viswanathan and John Reynolds as the aforementioned friend on the phone and her actual, committed boyfriend allow for brief respite, but like the rest of the film's many desperate attempts at thematic quips, their presence becomes another predictable element in a story that feels like it could've been written by the viewer as they watched. It's far from unintelligent – okay, so not every viewer would turn in a competent first draft – but it never earns the intrigue it feigns as a given. Even when Gordon and Viswanathan team up for a witchcraft-based ritual that is meant to wipe Isaac of his most immediate memories, we've already grown tired of the schtick that positions these characters as terrified of what they've done and the consequences they're bound to face. Oh, Hi! is at its most interesting not when it's doing the most movie-ish things on its radar, but when it spends time raising the common anxieties that modern millennials tend to have about commitment, especially of a romantic sort. It doesn't necessarily take a firm stance on who's at fault in this scenario, instead acknowledging the fact that both halves of its core partnership were in the wrong. (Isaac led Iris on; Iris, you know, kidnapped him.) Therein, however, lies the problem: What Oh, Hi! makes a habit of introducing profound concepts without ever intending to interrogate their significance, nor what their existence within someone says about that individual. It wants us to root for Iris and Isaac just as much as it wants us to root for Iris to acknowledge her worth and for Isaac to free himself from unjust imprisonment. Those two factions cannot coexist, no matter how clever Oh, Hi! believes it is being by pretending they can. Then again, Misery, Fatal Attraction, and even The Witches of Eastwick all exist in the same world as this film, so what do I know? Oh, Hi! held its New York Premiere as a part of the Spotlight Narrative section of the 2025 Tribeca Festival. The film will debut exclusively in theaters on July 25, 2025, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. Director: Sophie Brooks Screenwriter: Sophie Brooks Rated: R Runtime: 94m

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