"I'm in the Band" and "Love, Simon" actor Logan Miller | The Latest With Maya

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

It's the latest over! It's the latest Oh! Over! Who's she gonna talk to? What's she gonna ask about?

SPEAKER_01 0:10

Hi Logan. Welcome to The Latest with Maya. You've seen Logan Miller in I'm in the Band, Love Simon, the Escape Room movies, and more. Logan also has a recurring role in Chicago Med. Thank you so much for joining me. I'm so excited to be talking with you.

SPEAKER_00 0:34

Absolutely, Maya. It's a pleasure to be talking with you too.

SPEAKER_01 0:38

Um, so who has had the biggest impact on you professionally?

SPEAKER_00 0:46

Wow, that's a great question. Um, you know, I I would say that uh there was a multitude of different people uh in different chapters of my life, you know. Um I think that, you know, coming into the business, the guys that were on my show with me, Steve Valentine, Greg Baker, Stephen Fole, they were the people that kind of helped push me into what could I expect from this business? Um and, you know, kind of grounded me, and they were seasoned character actors themselves, and so I really appreciated their guidance at that point in time. Um some of these great directors that I got to work with. I think that uh Christopher Landon still uh it amazes me and the scope of what he can do comedically and in horror. Um and uh yeah, you know, I mean, I I would I would kind of say those people and um, you know, I I I've gotten close with a uh a screenwriter named Andrew Kevin Walker. Um, and as I kind of not necessarily just fully transition, but give my time to screenwriting as well, he has been a mentor in um helping me develop my my stories.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

Yeah, oh I love that. Yeah, I um I actually I interviewed Steve Valentine um months ago. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:18

That's amazing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:20

Yeah, he he's he's so fun to talk with.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

I know. I took a lot from him. I I never was able to get the tricks of the trade with his magic, but um, you know, he's gonna keep that lock under lock and key.

SPEAKER_01 2:33

Yeah. Um, so who has had the biggest impact on you as a person?

SPEAKER_00 2:43

As a person. Well, I would say that that would be my family, you know, my mom and dad, Brian and Stevie Miller, love you guys to pieces. Uh, they've supported me along the way and have always, you know, championed what I do, and this is a very interesting and kind of rocky business, and they've been a uh a beautiful support day in and day out. Um one of my best friends, Thomas Mann, who is also an actor, um him and I have grown up together in this business, and so that support group has been kind of the key to what has kept me sane in in all of this.

SPEAKER_01 3:29

Oh, I love that. Yeah. Um, so what uh small things bring you joy on a daily basis?

SPEAKER_00 3:41

Yeah, well, you know, I I love exploring my own city. And um, you know, they say that Los Angeles isn't walkable, but um, I'm here to prove them wrong. Uh I love to go into different neighborhoods and kind of get a you know first-hand view of different old architecture. Um that really inspires me, and uh I love diving into the history of different cities. I also love playing music. You know, music is a really grounding thing for me and very meditative, um, therapeutic. Um, so you know, I'm always toying around with guitars, pianos, synthesizers, you name it. So um, yeah, it's like uh physical fitness along with like kind of music and um and then just watching a heck of a lot of movies.

SPEAKER_01 4:39

Oh, I love that. Yeah. Um so um is there someone who without fail always makes you laugh?

SPEAKER_00 4:55

Oh yeah, you know, um, well, not in my life that I know personally, but uh I feel that like uh Eric Andre always makes me laugh. I love uh Tim Robinson. Um and then uh yeah, someone who I've gotten to work with um once or twice, uh Tim Heideker from uh Tim and Eric, uh I really, really um love and think he is just the funniest person on the planet. So those uh those three really uh you know keep me keep me chuckling.

SPEAKER_01 5:32

Oh, I love that.

SPEAKER_00 5:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:34

Yeah, laughter is the best. So I'm absolutely that's my favorite thing.

SPEAKER_00 5:41

It's the uh it's the most fun and cheapest medicine.

SPEAKER_01 5:45

Yes, definitely. Yeah. Um, so if you had a warning label, what would yours be?

SPEAKER_00 5:57

Warning way too loud. I don't know how to quiet down. You know, people have always said, um, you know, why why are you projecting so much? Um and I go, well, the world is my stage, okay? Um, but uh yeah, it's a problem. My uh mother also uh shares the same problem. Um, you know, we come from big families, so I think that uh, you know, in order to get the word out, you have to be the loudest one in the room. So it's kind of a screaming match sometimes. Not in not in a mean way, just uh, you know, to just get the word out.

unknown 6:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:35

Oh, I love that. Yeah, I I'm sometimes I I can't always tell when like I'm talking loudly or like and my mom always has to say, okay, bring it down a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 6:52

You're kind of screaming right now, but that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

Let's give it a yeah, let's give it a stage whisper, maybe.

SPEAKER_01 6:57

Yeah. Yeah. So I understand.

SPEAKER_00 7:02

Yeah, great, right.

SPEAKER_01 7:05

Yeah. Um so what has been the um biggest obstacle either personally or professionally that you've overcome?

SPEAKER_00 7:19

Yeah, well, you know, I mean, uh, I guess I could say it would be rejection and um just kind of getting your foot in the door, you know. I I think that a lot that comes with this industry is uh is persistence, and uh you just have to be able to, you know, keep trucking and just get your ideas and your performances to the right eyes, and hopefully one day something something great will come of it, you know. Um as I kind of go behind the camera now getting the getting our stories to the right people and trying to obtain, you know, financing for these films and everything, it can be really hard. I mean, you have to prove to people that um you know your story is worth telling and worth uh you know giving money over. So that can be um very challenging. And um, yeah, so it's it's persistence and just making sure that you know you're putting the best product out there that you want. And um, yeah, that that that's that's kind of the best the hardest hurdle.

SPEAKER_01 8:30

Oh wow. Um so I am uh pop culture obsessed and I go in stages of shows that I cannot stop watching.

SPEAKER_00 8:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:44

Is there a show that you are currently obsessed with?

SPEAKER_00 8:49

Dang, you know, I I I do love um The Pit. I think it's um some great drama as far as uh it's it's it's the most intense and I think the most watchable medical drama I've ever seen. Um I really enjoy The Chair Company with Tim Robinson. Um that one's super absurd and very funny while also kind of having a lynchian spin on um on the uh the the story. And then um yeah, you know, I I'm I was a big Righteous Gemstones fan. I was sorry to see that show end, but uh, you know, I think it was probably time for them to move on. Um and yeah, th those are kind of those are kind of it right now. I need to really get into Sopranos, you know. There's I've never been able to watch all of the Sopranos, so I guess I'm gonna have to hunker down and you know get into Tony Sopranos head.

SPEAKER_01 9:48

Yeah. I love that. Yeah, the um The Pit is one of my favorite shows. I love that show, and I've been re-watching um I've a lot of rom coms lately, so I just recently re-watched Love Simon. Oh great! Yeah, and so I just I always um love that. I just love that movie from the first time I saw it. Um, and so I'm like re-obsessing over it again.

SPEAKER_00 10:19

So um Yeah, Love Simon was so much fun to to make. I mean, that was such a great group, and you know, uh Nick Robinson and myself um are still really close friends, which is really great. Um, you know, you you couldn't tell based off of the characters that we were portraying, but um yes, we actually behind the scenes uh developed a friendship.

SPEAKER_01 10:43

Oh, I love that.

SPEAKER_00 10:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:47

Yeah, I um yeah, I was just re-watching um his show uh Maid. Um that I love, so I I was rewatching that, and yeah, I yeah, rom coms lately have been my go-to.

SPEAKER_00 11:02

So hey, you know, they're easily consumable and uh you know it gives us a little hope and uh you know the the it brings warmth to our hearts.

SPEAKER_01 11:14

Yes, exactly. Yeah. Um so what genre of movie would your life story be told as?

SPEAKER_00 11:27

Wow. Um an intense crime thriller. No, I'm kidding. Um I that there is no crimes that I have committed in my life. Um if I did, they were unintentional, so I'm sorry to the police. Um but uh no, I mean I think that it would probably be like an absurdist comedy that would be somewhere like um Tropic Thunder meets dumb and dumber.

SPEAKER_01 11:57

I love that. Yeah, I want to see that movie.

SPEAKER_00 12:02

It's it's gonna be crazy. Uh it will be really funny, it'll get a little bloody, there'll be a lot of action along the way, but um, you know, all will be resolved in the end.

SPEAKER_01 12:13

I love that. Yeah, yeah. I I've always wanted my life story to be both uh musical and a rom-com.

SPEAKER_00 12:23

So amazing. I think that you know we can make that possible.

SPEAKER_01 12:27

Yeah, oh thank you.

SPEAKER_00 12:28

Who would you want who would you want to play you?

SPEAKER_01 12:30

Oh I don't know. I think um uh a friend of mine, I think uh Paris Burrell's because she's um she's a good friend of mine and she's also been in like so many of my favorite shows and um so she could get to the core of how you work. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 12:53

That's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 12:54

Yeah, so I yeah, I think I'd want her to play me.

SPEAKER_00 12:59

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 13:01

Um so if you um could give someone in your life a star on the walk of fame, who would it be?

SPEAKER_00 13:14

Let's see. Yeah, you know, I probably uh Thomas Mann. You know, he's uh been there through it throughout every moment of my uh career in chapters. So I would do that. Um and then I would give it uh a star uh to my grandfather, Marshall Miller. Uh he's still alive to this day. He owned a uh fast food restaurant in uh Emporia, Kansas, named after himself called Marshalls. Um and then he retired, became a county commissioner, um, and he's still running strong. So uh, you know, let's give a walk of fame star to Marshall Miller.

SPEAKER_01 13:57

Oh wow, I love that. Yeah. Um yeah, so if you had to choose someone to narrate your life, who would you choose and why?

SPEAKER_00 14:13

Oh. Well, um, I think uh, and you know, this is unfortunate because he's no longer with us, but uh James Earl Jones would be a great narrator. Um and um this other guy also who's no longer with us, but his name was um John Lafontaine, and he used to be the um the trailer voiceover that was that that kind of um you know made in a world famous. And so um if if if I could, you know, get these spirits back into our own reality, I'd say let's use their voice as well.

SPEAKER_01 14:57

Oh, those are great ones. I love those. I love those choices.

SPEAKER_00 15:03

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 15:04

Yeah, I I um I think I would want um Reese Woodlerspoon to narrate my life.

SPEAKER_00 15:13

Amazing. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 15:16

Um, so what song, whenever you hear it, brings you back to specific memory, and what is that memory?

SPEAKER_00 15:30

Yeah, you know, um it would probably be uh 15 steps by Radiohead. Um this album, the In Rainbows album by Radio Head, came out at the exact same time as I was starting my career, and I remember listening to that album on my way to Boston as I was about to shoot um Ghost of Girlfriends Past, which was my first feature. So that album just like holds a um a sheer significance to the beginning stages of uh you know what I've continued to pursue in my life.

SPEAKER_01 16:11

Yeah. Oh, I love that. Yeah, there's so many songs for me that just have su I have such strong memories attached to.

SPEAKER_00 16:20

I know, yeah. It's like songs and smells and uh, you know, yeah, it's it's always it's always crazy how those things will make you go back in time and like it'll pop up a memory or something.

SPEAKER_01 16:34

Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Um, so do you have a go-to comfort show or movie that you turn on when you just need to tune out the world and escape?

SPEAKER_00 16:50

Yeah, you know, I love um there was this sketch show from the 90s called Mr. Show, which I still happen to have on DVD, um, with um Bob Odenkirk and uh David Cross. And uh that was one of my favorite sketch shows. I'll kind of always revisit episodes of that. Um, and then oddly enough, I think uh one of the movies I've seen the most is probably The Matrix. Um, or uh yeah, maybe like uh the original Toy Story.

SPEAKER_01 17:25

Oh, I love that. Yeah. Yeah, I have a long list that I just rotate between.

SPEAKER_00 17:34

That's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 17:35

So yeah. I um I I mean two of the shows that I just are constant go-tos for me are Will and Grace and Friends.

SPEAKER_00 17:46

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:47

Yeah, I think I've seen every episode of the those, I mean, more times than I can count.

SPEAKER_00 17:54

So another one for me I'm remembering too is uh curb your enthusiasm. I love Larry David and his antics, and uh, you know, it makes me feel better when he um you know goes into a situation and makes it far worse than I ever could.

SPEAKER_01 18:10

Yeah. Yeah, I I've recently like been going down a rabbit hole of like watching um clips from Curb Your Enthusiasm.

SPEAKER_00 18:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:22

And yeah, so I've been yeah, I've been spending I don't even know how long look watching countless hours. Yeah, definitely, yeah, and yeah, it's been it hasn't been great because I've been going down a rabbit hole watching those clips and then just watching a bunch of um like clips from uh the new rom com voicemails for Isabel because that's my obsession.

SPEAKER_00 18:54

I haven't I haven't seen it yet, but um I saw Nick right after uh his press tour. But um I'm hearing great things. Um you know I've worked with Nick and Zoe, and so you know I'm glad that they were able to both come together in a in a love romance on screen.

SPEAKER_01 19:10

Yeah, yeah. I um yeah, I remember so when it came out, my um uh mom and I watched it together. And it's yeah, we were both crying within the first like two minutes of the movie, so wow, you guys why you put yourself through that. I know my mom was like, oh well, I I knew what it was about. My mom didn't know like the whole story, so she was like, Why did we do this to ourselves?

SPEAKER_00 19:43

That's therapeutic, I guess. Yeah, you always feel a little bit better after a good cry.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

Yeah, definitely. And I was also telling her, I was like, it's Nick and Zoe, so obviously we have to watch it.

SPEAKER_00 19:56

Gotta support. And it sounds like a beautiful, beautiful, uh, you know, touching story.

SPEAKER_01 20:01

Yeah, yeah, it's so good. I've been like texting a bunch of friends saying, you have to watch this movie because I need to talk about it with you.

SPEAKER_00 20:11

Amazing.

unknown 20:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:14

Um so uh do you have um a show or movie that you just um quote all the time?

SPEAKER_00 20:25

Um it would probably be um Dumb and Dumber. Um also uh from Tim and Eric, awesome show, great job, you know, uh old adult swim little things that I would always say. Um, you know, I I I honed the the term pep pep, um, which is like their term of grandfather on Tim and Eric, which I found very funny. Um, and then yeah, you know, I mean, uh uh check it out with Dr. Steve Brule, um that what John C. Riley did um on Adult Swim. Funny, just like silly kind of quippy things like that that I'll I'll quote.

SPEAKER_01 21:08

Oh, I love that. Yeah, my brain is just filled with show and movie quotes um and scenes that I just reference at like the most random times and then yeah conversation.

SPEAKER_00 21:20

So yeah, and I could probably uh you know quote I could probably do the entire script of uh Rat Race from the early 2000s. I know I've seen that movie so many times that I feel like I could quote every every single line.

SPEAKER_01 21:37

Yeah, oh I love that movie.

SPEAKER_00 21:40

Yeah, it's absurd.

SPEAKER_01 21:41

Yeah, it is yeah, my my family and I quote um like it it is a race I am winning.

SPEAKER_00 21:50

Oh yes, he says it race Yeah, yeah. Some of Rowan Atkinson's best work, yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

And um yeah, I I also like two of the shows I quote the most are um Friends and Will and Grace. And then Psyche. I think I quote those the most.

SPEAKER_00 22:12

Oh wow. I've actually I don't think I've ever seen Psych, but um that sounds awesome. I'll have to check it out now.

SPEAKER_01 22:18

Oh yeah, it's my family and I um re-watch it together all the time whenever we're together. That's one of our go-to's.

SPEAKER_00 22:27

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 22:29

Yeah. Um So if you could put a message on a billboard for everyone to see, what would that message be?

SPEAKER_00 22:42

It would say give the underdog uh a shot, I guess. And it would be like, yeah, you know, focus less on the the bigger people and uh support the underdogs.

SPEAKER_01 23:05

Oh, I love that one.

SPEAKER_00 23:08

There you go, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:10

And it'll have a bunch of dogs on it, um, and they'll be like uh working in a mine or something.

SPEAKER_01 23:17

Yeah, oh I love that. I wanna see that billboard.

SPEAKER_00 23:21

Nice. Well we'll uh we'll we'll we'll make it up. I'll get some great artists um to paint this beautiful painting, uh, and we'll do it all by hand. No AI.

SPEAKER_01 23:32

Yes, oh I can't wait.

unknown 23:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:36

What subject um could you give a TED talk on, even though you were totally unqualified on that subject?

SPEAKER_00 23:47

Wow, you know, um I think it would be uh the uh the the fascination that I have with uh underground plumbing. And uh, you know, I really want to know the ins and outs of how all these tubes work, what these tubes are made of, these pipes and uh pipes throughout um the world's history. Now we went from copper to steel to um plaster and plastic, who knows? Um that's uh what what I would want to get into and the maze of the uh each city and the plumbing that that comes along with it.

SPEAKER_01 24:26

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_00 24:28

And again, know nothing about that, but I could uh improvise my way through it for a good hour.

SPEAKER_01 24:34

Oh, I like that. Yeah. Um so do you have any irrational fears?

SPEAKER_00 24:45

Yes. Um, I believe that someone's going to break into my house at any moment, and I have um, you know, escape plans and escape routes. And uh that might be because of uh the the past movies that I've done where I've had to um I've been kidnapped and escaped certain situations. So we'll call that a little post-traumatic stress. Um but then my you know, I I mean I always have like a fear of flying and the rituals that I kind of say to make sure that the the plane lands safely. Um those are kind of the irrational fears that I have.

SPEAKER_01 25:27

Yeah, I I mean I I can understand those. My I always joke my brains like one big irrational fear. So I feel I can always understand other people's irrational fears.

SPEAKER_00 25:39

Yeah. Well, you know, uh sometimes I do like to always think of the worst case scenario. Um, so that whenever whenever I think of the worst case scenario, then anything that happens outside of that ends up being, you know, better than I had expected.

SPEAKER_01 25:56

Oh yeah. Definitely. Yeah. Um, yeah, my uh uh usually I'll be like kind of spiraling about something, and when I say it out loud, like talking with my mom if I say it out loud or my sister, they'll both be like, you get that's irrational, right? And uh well when I say it out loud, I do, but in my head it seems perfectly rational.

SPEAKER_00 26:26

Yeah, I know. We're always just torturing our own selves for no reason.

SPEAKER_01 26:30

Yeah, yeah. Um, so um my final question for you is um today, what are you most grateful for?

SPEAKER_00 26:45

Well, I'm most grateful for uh my community and the people in my life. You know, I I think that over the years I have cultivated um a really strong support group. Um people that work in the industry, people that don't, um, the support system and the people that I have found in my life um veer from toxicity and uh kind of are uh very supportive and grounded, um filled with laughter and great stories, and that's at the end of the day what fully matters to me. You know, sometimes you know you're pursuing lots of different things that can kind of be uh self-indulgent, or you're you're looking for avenues in which can grant you happiness, but at the end of the day, it's the community that really um can make life worth living.

SPEAKER_01 27:45

Yeah. Yeah, I love that. Yeah. Um well that um was uh my final question for you. Um amazing. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 27:58

What great questions you always have.

SPEAKER_01 28:00

Oh, thank you. Thank you so much for joining me. I've been such a fan of yours for so long. So talking with you right now is like just surreal to me.

SPEAKER_00 28:13

So thank you. Oh no, my pleasure. It was so much fun. Again, you know, you you brought the unique questions, so what can I say?

SPEAKER_01 28:22

Well, thank you so much, and yeah, I just I so appreciate your taking the time to join me, and um, I hope you have a great rest of your day.

SPEAKER_00 28:35

Absolutely. Thanks, thanks again.

SPEAKER_01 28:38

Yeah. Um, and that's a wrap on today's edition of The Latest with Maya. The latest with Maya!

SPEAKER_00 28:48

It's the latest with Maya.

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