Yahoo Lifestyle Armie Hammer Claims To Be “Turning Down Jobs”: “Now The Conversation In The Industry Is ‘Man, That Guy Got F***ed'”
Armie Hammer is opening up about his return to acting, saying his career is picking up so much that he has had to decline job offers.
In a new interview, the Call Me By Your Name star said he is booked and busy after leaving the Hollywood industry following accusations of cannibalism and sexual abuse.
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“I’m turning down jobs. My dance card is getting pretty full,” Hammer said on Your Mom’s House podcast hosted by Christina Pazsitzky and Tom Segura. “That first job that I turned down after four years of this shit, I mean, it was the best feeling I’ve ever had.”
Hammer is set to return to film with the western Frontier Crucible, starring Thomas Jane and William H. Macy and from director Travis Mills and producer Dallas Sonnier. The Death on the Nile and The Social Network actor said that his recent bookings were not from a Hollywood agent and it’s his lawyer who is helping negotiate the deals.
“It’s slow, but generally now the conversation when my name comes up with people in the industry is, ‘Man, that guy got fucked.’ And that feels really good. It’s really encouraging,” he said.
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As for the scandal that forced him to step back from Hollywood, he said, “I think somewhere deep down, subconsciously, I wanted to get caught. I so did not relate to the image of me that was out there in the public of ‘Look at them [Hammer and his wife, Elizabeth Chambers]. They’re like the Ralph Lauren family. They’ve got the perfect life and the perfect house and the perfect kids.’”
Hammer, who recently started a podcast, says that the platform allows him to have “uncomfortable conversations,” adding, “I’m doing it on my terms and I’m doing it authentically as myself and that’s one of the scary things about doing this, and one of the scary things about having the podcast is being vulnerable in a public way, especially having gone through what I went through where 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 gotta go towards in order to grow.”
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