{"id":26222,"date":"2025-07-26T19:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T19:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26222\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T19:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T19:55:08","slug":"logan-lerman-on-wearing-ball-gag-in-romantic-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26222\/","title":{"rendered":"Logan Lerman on Wearing Ball Gag in Romantic Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn the new romantic comedy, \u201cOh, Hi!,\u201d Logan Lerman<\/a> finds himself speechless \u2013 in one of the kinkiest ways possible.<\/p>\n

\n\tLerman and Molly Gordon<\/a> star as a couple, Isaac and Iris, who embark on their first weekend together. However, things take a wild turn when Isaac, still chained to a bed after a kinky sex romp, tells Iris he\u2019s not interested in a serious monogamous relationship.<\/p>\n

\n\tIris decides to keep a barely dressed Isaac shackled to see if she could convince him to be her boyfriend.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt one point, he tries to yell for help but can\u2019t because he\u2019s muzzled by a ball gag.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s nothing better than having a ball gag in your mouth when you\u2019re trying to say words and string sentences together,\u201d Lerman told me at the recent special screening of the movie at AMC at the Grove in Los Angeles. \u201cI would say they\u2019d leave it in there for hours. I\u2019d go all day with a ball gag in my mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJoking aside \u2013 or maybe not \u2013 Lerman said the sex toy proved to be painful. \u201cIt\u2019s really hard on the jaw because it was a big ball and I have a small jaw,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need a ball gag for this right now so I can show you how small my mouth is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDirector and co-writer Sophie Brooks explained, \u201cWe tested a few ball gags in prep and Logan picked that one.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGordon recalled seeing a gagged Lerman for the first time. \u201cI was like, \u2018How did I get this serious actor to do this movie for no money and be shirtless and put in a ball gag?\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cI was like, \u2018Wow, God is good.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe idea for the film was inspired by conversations Gordon and Brooks had had about dating men who were too scared to have honest conversations about their relationships. \u201cSophie and I dated some wonderful men that didn\u2019t want to have closure conversations with us when they broke up with us, and, in the pandemic, we were complaining and she came to me with this seed of an idea and we developed it into this story,\u201d said Gordon, who also served as a writer and producer on the film. \u201cSo thank you to those men.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBrooks said they also were inspired by Oscar-winning \u201cMisery,\u201d which starred Kathy Bates as a woman who kidnaps and tortures her favorite writer (James Caan): \u201cIt\u2019s a very different tone, but certainly the idea of a woman holding a man captive was something we talked about.\u201d<\/p>\n

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