There are a lot of people who want to look at Logan Lerman’s face. The millions of edits dedicated to him on TikTok would suggest as much, as would his casting in Haim’s video for their song “Down to Be Wrong” from earlier this summer — and then, of course, there’s his film career. 

Lerman himself is not one of those people.  

“I haven’t seen the movie,” he says, sunk into a sofa on a recent afternoon at the end of his New York trip, of his new film “Oh, Hi.” “I don’t know if I should say that or not, because I’m telling people to see it, but I haven’t seen it.”

The 33-year-old, who’d rather not watch himself onscreen, does like seeing what other people think of his movies, however. 

“I love reading reviews,” he says, a rare admission from an actor these days. “I love hearing people’s reactions.”

After a breakout at Sundance, “Oh, Hi,” the sophomore feature from Sophie Brooks, is now out in theaters, and you should take Lerman at his word: it’s worth going to see. 

“Oh, Hi” follows Iris, played by Molly Gordon, and Isaac on what appears to be a perfect first couple’s weekend away. They arrive at a charming house upstate, go for a swim, Isaac makes scallops, it’s all very romantic — until Isaac says he’s not looking for a relationship, and the weekend spirals off its axis. 

Lerman was simply sent the script in an email, along with the offer, and was soon in Germantown, N.Y., on set. 

“It was one of those beautiful things where I read it and knew I wanted to be a part of it,” he says. “And a few months later we were making it. I was really lucky.”

He’d never met Gordon before, despite growing up near one another and running in similar circles, but had a connection to the actress: when he was 12, he’d worked with her dad, director Bryan Gordon, on a TV show. As Iris and Isaac, they present a different take on two romantic leads with the kind of good conflict that interests Lerman.

“Isaac as a character was interesting for me because I have never played a person like him before, and I just want to do new things all the time, and it would seem challenging to try to wrap my head around some of the elements of the story, be it the physicality or just the moment the film takes a left turn,” he says. “There’s this one scene where Isaac and Iris get into a little bit of a fight post-sex, and just thinking about how to navigate that scene was really interesting to me and something I couldn’t stop thinking about.”

It’s easy to see Isaac as the bad guy initially, and Lerman does concede he was “being an a–hole,” but that’s what made him appealing. 

“I had a lot of empathy for Isaac. I thought there was a tortured person there. He had some demons that he was working through,” he says. “I didn’t see him as a bad guy. I just saw him as a person who had s–t to deal with. He had to work through some stuff from his childhood or something like that. I kind of became obsessed with the idea of why he reacted the way he did, why he runs from love or why he’s afraid of commitment, and I find people like that interesting generally.”

Without spoiling the movie, Isaac spends a significant amount of time being handcuffed to a bed, which presented Lerman with a new opportunity to get into the physicality of the character. 

“It really wasn’t bad at all, especially compared to movies where I’m running all day long or doing fight scenes or dealing with heights and s–t like that,” he says. “It was limited, but within the confines of an actor’s blocking, it was really cool. It made a lot of things happen that I couldn’t have planned unless I was rehearsing a chain to a bed — which I wasn’t.”

Lerman broke out as the title character in the “Percy Jackson” movies starting in 2010, starring in “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” along the way in 2012. Since then his credits include “Noah” and “Fury” and last year he starred alongside Joey King in the historical series “We Were the Lucky Ones.” Later this fall, he joins the new season of “Only Murders in the Building” alongside comedy greats Martin Short and Steve Martin.

“It’s such a visceral thing,” he says of choosing his roles. “It’s not one thing I’m looking for exactly, other than just not being repetitive. It’s just kind of boring for me. I want to do different things. I just feel like sometimes you read something and you just can’t stop thinking about it, and that’s enough for me. That’s what I’m looking for.”

“Only Murders” came to him last-minute, and required very little selling.

“It was just like, ‘do you want to go hang out with these legends for a little bit and have some fun?’ I was like, ‘I’ll be there. I’ll do whatever you want to do,’” he says. “‘I just want to hang out with Martin Short.’”