Armie Hammer Plots Comeback With New Podcast, First Acting Role Since Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Three years after Armie Hammer’s Hollywood career came to a sudden halt amid allegations of sexual misconduct, the actor is attempting to forge a comeback by launching a new podcast as well as landing an acting role in an independent film.
Earlier this week, Hammer — who recently returned to Los Angeles after disappearing from the public eye by retreating to the Cayman Islands — announced The Armie HammerTime Podcast, where he “sits down with extraordinary people from all walks of life as he rebuilds his own.”
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“Don’t worry… we feed him before every episode,” the podcast’s description quips, a not-so-subtle reference to the accusations of cannibalism made against the actor.
Hammer added of the podcast on social media, “Some of you are going to love this and some of you are going to fucking hate it.”
Additionally, Deadline reports that Hammer has landed his first acting role since the ordeal — his first since 2022’s Death on the Nile, which was filmed before but was recently shortly after the accusations against him — in the upcoming independent Western film Frontier Cubicle.
On Wednesday, Hammer shared photos from the film’s Arizona-based set, writing in the caption, “Back in the saddle.”
In June, Hammer spoke about the allegations on the Painful Lessons podcast, which is hosted by his “close friend” Tyler Ramsey.
“There were things that people were saying about me that just felt so outlandish. Now, I’m able to sort of look at it with a sense of distance and perspective and be like. ‘That’s hilarious.’ People called me a cannibal and everyone believed them,” Hammer said. “They’re like, ‘Yep, that guy ate people.’ You’re just like, ‘What? What are you talking about? Do you know what you have to do to be a cannibal? You have to eat people. How am I going to be a cannibal?’ It was bizarre.”
During the podcast, he added: “What I will say about it, even in the indiscrepancies, even in whatever it was that people said, whatever it was that happened — I’m now at a place in my life where I’m grateful for every single bit of it. I’m actually now at a place where I’m really grateful for it because where I was in my life before all of that stuff happened to me, I didn’t feel good. I never felt satisfied. I never had enough, I never was in a place where I was happy with myself, where I had self-esteem. I never knew how to give myself love. I never knew how to give myself validation.”
The following month, Hammer appeared on Piers Morgan Uncensored, during which he denied that he had ever “eaten any human flesh.” “You know what you have to do to be a cannibal?” he told Morgan. “You have to have actually eaten someone.”
He noted of the sexual assault allegations, “Any of those conversations that we had inside of that relationship, when you take them outside of that context and put them into broad daylight, it doesn’t look so good. You know, different people have different sexual fantasies. And there’s a very broad spectrum of sexuality, and people are allowed to engage with their own sexuality however it fits them and what they do.”
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