Armie Hammer says his career is rebounding.
After a three-year hiatus from Hollywood following sexual assault allegations that first surfaced in 2021, the 38-year-old actor made an appearance on the Your Mom’s House podcast and talked about how things are turning around for him.
“The worm is turning, and it takes time,” Hammer told co-hosts Christina Pazsitzky and Tom Segura at the one-hour and 16-minute mark in the video linked below.
“It’s slow, but generally now the conversation when my name comes up with people in the industry is, ‘Man, that guy got fucked,’ you know?" Hammer said. "And that feels really good. It’s really encouraging.”
Despite lacking representation, Hammer said he recently finished shooting the film Frontier Crucible. From there, he has two more films scheduled, one in Croatia and another in the Philippines. While he’s still negotiating deals through his attorney, there is also a potential TV series in the pipeline.
“I’m turning jobs down,” he added. “My dance card’s getting pretty full … The first job that I turned down after four years of this shit? I mean, it was the best feeling I've ever had.”
Hammer was under investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department for two and a half years over sexual misconduct allegations. He was accused in 2021 by a woman named Effie, who she claimed the actor “violently” raped her in Los Angeles in April 2017.
Hammer’s attorney denied the allegations in a subsequent statement and maintained that his encounters were all consensual.
The accusation came shortly after a woman claimed to have bizarre direct message conversations with the Call Me By Your Name actor that involved fantasies of rape, BDSM, and cannibalism.
The text messages were reportedly sent while Hammer was still married to Elizabeth Chambers, with whom he shares two children. She filed for divorce in 2020.
“I think somewhere deep down, subconsciously, I wanted to get caught,” he said further into the episode. “I so did not relate to the image of me that was out there in the public, sort of like this, ‘Look at them. They’re like the Ralph Lauren family. They’ve got the perfect life and the perfect house and the perfect kids.’ I feel like a fucking alien walking around most of the time. I don’t feel like a human. I feel like a creature.”
When asked about the launch of his podcast and why he was returning to the public at this moment in time, Hammer said, “Because I'm doing it on my terms, and I'm doing it authentically as myself.”
He continued, “And that's one of the scary things about doing this, and one of the scary things about having the podcast is like being sort of vulnerable in a public way. Especially having gone through what I went through where like all this shit was weaponized against me is really fucking scary. But I'm leaning into it because I know that the things generally that make me feel afraid are the things that I got to go towards in order to grow.”