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Logan Lerman is spotlighted in the January 2010 issue of Vanity Fair. Things are looking pretty good for our new hero!

Logan Lerman is dealing with a question that comes to successful teenage actors and basketball prodigies alike: should he go to college or go to work? Right now he’s not certain what the answer will be. But he knows he wants to stay in the movie business—and not just as an actor. “I feel like almost the only thing I want to do in my life is to make movies,” says the 18-year-old Los Angeles native. “But, growing up on sets, I feel like if I go to a film school I might discover that I don’t need to be there to make films.”

Logan Lerman looking sharp for Vanity Fair

Lerman has worked alongside a number of major stars—Russell Crowe and Christian Bale in 3:10 to Yuma; Mel Gibson in The Patriot—but says he learned the most from Jim Carrey, who gave him a crash course in film acting during the making of The Number 23.

“He would tell me about his experiences on movies like Man on the Moon,” Lerman recalls. “I learned a lot from him on how to embody a character and get into a scene.”
Next month, Lerman can be seen playing the title character (a son of the Greek god Poseidon, born and raised in present-day America) in the big-budget, fantasy-action extravaganza Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. The movie is based on the first novel in the best-selling series written by Rick Riordan. The director is Chris Columbus, who has pumped out a few of the biggest moneymakers of all time (Home Alone, the first few Harry Potters).

With any luck, there will be sequels. “I think I’m signed on to do three of them or something like that,” Lerman says. In the meantime, he’ll be finishing his senior year of high school and figuring out what to do about the whole college thing.

[Source: Vanity Fair]