Life and career
Detailed early-life information about Kim is not publicly documented, which is common for performers who began acting as minors. His earliest screen credit is the 2020 Quibi anthology Home Movie: The Princess Bride, a star-studded charity recreation of the 1987 film produced during the COVID-19 pandemic, in which he appeared in one segment as the Grandson, the role originated by Fred Savage.1
His breakout came the following year with Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Since then his most substantial non-Ghostbusters work has been on television: in 2023 he joined the cast of The Walking Dead: Dead City, the AMC spin-off following Maggie and Negan in a post-apocalyptic New York City. Kim plays Hershel Rhee, Maggie's son, taking over the part from child actor Kien Michael Spiller after a narrative time jump aged the character up. Series showrunner Eli Jorné described casting the older Kim to play a "vaguely older" Hershel as the story resumed several years after the events of the parent series, where Hershel becomes a central figure when he is abducted.2 He also contributed a minor voice role (an autograph-seeking fan) to DreamWorks Animation's Kung Fu Panda 4 in 2024.1
Ghostbusters
Kim has played Podcast across both films of the Afterlife continuity and in its tie-in video game. Podcast is a friend and classmate of the Spengler children and an enthusiastic amateur paranormal content creator whose recording gear becomes useful to the new Ghostbusters.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
Kim was cast as Podcast for Jason Reitman's Ghostbusters: Afterlife. He and co-star McKenna Grace, who plays Phoebe Spengler, developed a close working relationship during the shoot. The two invented a handshake on set that grew more elaborate each day until it became a full routine by the end of production, and they sang Smash Mouth's "All Star" together on set every day during filming. At one point someone pranked the pair by leaving bones at the foot of their trailers and in front of the trailer where the young actors received their on-set schooling.
The Ecto Goggles proved a recurring challenge during filming. Kim could barely see while wearing them, accidentally struck Grace in the face once, and the goggles fell off his head more than ten times across the shoot. In one take he slipped and fell hard enough that the goggles came off and slid across the floor; during the Summerville foundry scene another fall alarmed the crew, while Grace was reportedly the only person on set who laughed, after which Kim started laughing too. During the elevator scene, Kim and Grace communicated with one another using Morse code through their flashlights.
The sequence involving the Mini-Pufts was especially demanding. The marshmallow residue applied to Kim took about an hour to put on. It was a cornstarch-based substance, some of it glued directly to his face, and a separate set of Ecto Goggles already coated in the material was used for those shots. Over time the residue hardened like gelatin and the flight suit grew increasingly uncomfortable. Kim lost his voice filming the scene in which Podcast screams and tasers Mini-Pufts inside Ecto-1, and some of the marshmallow material got into his eye during that take.
Podcast's real name was originally written into the Afterlife script but was later removed before release. Kim has said he knows what the intended name is.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
Kim returned as Podcast in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, directed by Gil Kenan. One scripted moment had Podcast slap his knee and say "slay" after mentioning the New York Public Library lions Patience and Fortitude. Kim felt he could not deliver the line with a straight face, and both the knee slap and the line were cut.
Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord (2024)
On March 29, 2024, Kim appeared in a promotional video playing as Podcast in the Slimer Hunt mission of the virtual-reality game Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord, a clip that also featured footage from Frozen Empire.
Selected other works
| Project |
Type |
Role |
Year |
| Home Movie: The Princess Bride |
TV mini-series |
The Grandson (1 episode) |
2020 |
| The Walking Dead: Dead City |
TV series |
Hershel Rhee |
2023 to present |
| Kung Fu Panda 4 |
Animated film |
Autograph-seeking fan (voice) |
2024 |
References
Some content on this page was researched using the Ghostbusters Wiki on Fandom.
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"Logan Kim," The Movie Database (TMDB), accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2357412-logan-kim. Lists birth date (March 7, 2007), birthplace (Los Angeles, California), and filmography including Home Movie: The Princess Bride (2020, "The Grandson"), The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023 to present, "Hershel Rhee"), and Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024, "Autograph-Seeking Fan").
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ComicBook.com, "The Walking Dead: Dead City Recasts Hershel Rhee With Logan Kim" (March 26, 2023), https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/the-walking-dead-dead-city-recasts-hershel-rhee-logan-kim/. Reports that Kim took over the role from child actor Kien Michael Spiller, and quotes showrunner Eli Jorné describing the 16-year-old Kim as playing a "vaguely older" Hershel (roughly 12 or 13) whose abduction drives Maggie's pursuit to New York City.
