Armie Hammer says he likes claims of cannibalism

Armie Hammer addresses past rumors of cannibalism.

In the first episode of his new project, Armie HammerTime Podcastthe 38-year-old called the public’s reactions to claims of cannibalism “wild”.

“It’s crazy,” he told podcast guest Tom Arnold. “I won’t lie, I like the cannibals now.”

Hammer elaborated: “The allegations are what make so much noise. What’s making more noise? ‘Armie Hammer is a cannibal’ or ‘Armie Hammer might not be a cannibal?’ The cannibal thing makes more noise and you don’t get an excuse ride in this world, like someone says something about you, everyone believes it and they move on with their lives to whatever it is they’re focused on because they got their own lives.”

In the documentary from 2022 House of Hammertwo of Call me by your name The actor’s exes, Courtney Vucekovich and Julia Morrison, claimed he sent them messages with cannibalistic fantasies about them. Last April, following another woman’s rape accusation against the actor, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office confirmed that Hammer – who has denied any wrongdoing – was being investigated for allegations of sexual assault.

There was ultimately insufficient evidence for a case and he was never charged, but the allegations derailed Hammer’s burgeoning Hollywood career. He last starred in the 2022s Death on the Nile and doesn’t seem to have any screen projects going on.

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Arnold, 65, responded to Hammer, saying, “the good news is you’ve worked on yourself.”

“When something like this happens, we do all this work on ourselves,” Hammer replied, “not so we can get the jobs back, but because we don’t care if we get the jobs back. I think it’s where I feel I am now.”

Armie HammerTime Podcast will continue to feature “interesting long-term conversations with people who have tools or skills or have acquired wisdom… that I don’t know (and) I want to learn,” as Hammer said in a Instagram video posted today, Oct 28

“Some of you are going to love this and some of you are going to f—— hate it,” he said in the video. “The original idea of ​​the podcast was kind of the concept that over the course of a day, every single person you interact with knows at least one thing that you don’t. So teach me what that one thing is.”