Armie Hammer reacted emotionally to receiving his his first acting offer in five years after being accused of sexual misconduct in 2021.
Hammer, who starred in hit 2010s films The Social Network and Call Me By Your Name (and also put in a notable appearance as tech CEO/Equisapien creator Steve Lift in Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You), returns to the select theaters in independent action thriller, Citizen Vigilante, which releases on June 19. The Uwe Boll-directed movie comes one year after Hammer starred in Western flick Frontier Crucible.
The actor was notoriously accused of sexual abuse and cannibalistic fetishism involving multiple women in 2021, the most prominent being Effie Angelova. For years, Hammer has denied the allegations, although he admitted to emotional wrongdoing of his previous partners.
Simultaneously, Hammer was married to media personality Elizabeth Chambers, whom he divorced in 2023 after 4 years of marriage. The ex-spouses share 2 children.
In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Hammer shared that he was “pretty sure” that he “cried” upon getting an offer to star in Citizen Vigilante — the first offer he had received in five years.
“It was just this moment where I was like: I’m going to get to do the thing that I love more than anything — other than my children,” the actor explained.
Hammer added that he would have starred in a “fucking cat food commercial” if it got him back into acting: “I just wanted to work again.”
Despite having a career in movies and TV that spans over 20 years, Hammer was admittedly “scared shitless” about being in front of the camera again until “Uwe said action for the first time.”
“And then I was like — ‘Wait. I do know how to do this.’ There’s a reason I had the success I had,” the entertainer recalled.
Last year, Hammer seemingly poked fun at the controversy surrounding him by joking on an episode of his podcast Armie HammerTime that he loved “marijuana roofie-ing people” and “poisoning people” when he was a heavy marijuana smoker.
