--- description: Find out how Miles Caton is shaping the future and defining the next generation of leadership. title: Miles Caton Is on the 2025 TIME100 Next image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f0b965812a2ac58/6998c9fa47fe51a7d455c164/t100-next-2025-miles_Caton.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Sep 30, 2025 # Miles Caton by Ryan Coogler  Claire Guillon—Camera Press/Redux We threw Miles Caton to the wolves. Or to the gators ... whichever you prefer. This 19-year-old kid hadn’t been in a movie before and didn’t play guitar, but we needed him to play a generational musician in our 1932 vampire horror movie about the culture that gave birth to the Delta blues—and after a worldwide search we were sure he was the one for the job. He had to learn to play slide on a resonator guitar, write music, move to New Orleans, learn stunt choreography, get covered in special-­­effects makeup and fake blood, and shoot intimate scenes and ones in the water (a stone’s throw from the aforementioned gators). Most important, he had to take audiences on the emotional journey of our film _Sinners_, performing alongside veteran actors. Miles didn’t just do it all with grace, professionalism, and humility—he made it look easy. I have never been so impressed by someone so young, and I have no doubt Miles is destined for greatness. _Coogler is a director and Oscar-­nominated producer_ Miles Caton: TIME100 Next 2025 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318889/miles-caton/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318889/miles-caton/"},"headline":"Miles Caton","datePublished":"2025-09-30T10:59:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:55:17.568Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318889/miles-caton/","keywords":["TIME100 Next","sponsorshipblock"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f0b965812a2ac58/6998c9fa47fe51a7d455c164/t100-next-2025-miles_Caton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f0b965812a2ac58/6998c9fa47fe51a7d455c164/t100-next-2025-miles_Caton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time100-next/","name":"TIME100 Next"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318889/miles-caton/","name":"Miles Caton"}}]}] ```