If you’re a fan of great romantic comedies, I definitely recommend you watch Oh, Hi!, which is a project on the 2025 movie schedule that presents a clever twist on the genre. And its leading man, Logan Lerman, certainly had a unique experience on the independent film, considering his character is handcuffed naked to the bed most of the time. Considering the premise, I of course had to ask the Percy Jackson actor during our interview how long he was actually handcuffed to a bed for the shoot. And, his answer pretty much blew my mind.
The movie, co-written by The Bear’s Molly Gordon (who’s been in a ton of great movies over the years), follows a couple, Iris and Isaac (played by Gordon and Lerman), who go on a romantic getaway to a remote cabin. The couple gets a little kinky in the bedroom, and Isaac ends up in handcuffs. But when he makes a troubling confession to Iris about their relationship, Iris decides to keep him chained to the bed. Here’s what Lerman had to say about being handcuffed on set:
I'm guessing it was a hundred hours. We're probably shooting for about 10 hours a lot of those days [for] at least 10 days. Yeah, probably around a hundred hours. Maybe something less. Yeah, you know give or take a few hours, we’re looking at about 100 hours in a bed, tied up. It was fun.
Molly Gordon added that it was definitely “a long time” and was giving “held captive vibes,” but hey, it seems like Lerman was very much game to do it. For some reason, I thought he was going to say that he was never really handcuffed for long, but I’m amazed he really committed.
And for a good reason. Oh, Hi! is a really fun movie that highlights the frustration that can come with dating when two people who like each other aren’t looking for the same thing. In Iris’s case, she comes into the getaway thinking they are a couple, whereas Isaac explains to her he’s not looking for anything serious, and she goes a bit Misery on him.
As we also discussed in the interview, one big problem it brought up for the actor was not having the ability to use his hands in conversation. As he explained:
It was limiting, because I talk with my hands a lot too. I am guilty of [that] constantly… I'm that person. Like I really use my hands when I'm talking. It was limiting. You kind of just adapt, adjust and do the scene within those limitations. But, it was great. It boiled it down for me as an actor.
It really did work, too, and helped make the movie.
After Molly Gordon successfully called out theater kids by co-writing and co-directing Theater Camp, which came out in 2023, I was very excited for what she’d be doing next as a filmmaker. For Oh, Hi!, she collaborated with co-writer/director Sophie Brooks to bring to life this dark comedy in between her work on The Bear (which is already coming back for Season 5).
You can check out if Logan Lerman’s Isaac ever gets out of those handcuffs when Oh, Hi! hits theaters this Friday, July 25.
