Armie Hammer, the ‘Call Me By Your Name’ actor disgraced by accusations of sexual abuse, which he denied and which did not lead to charges after a police investigation, has spoken publicly about the last years of his life, in which he has spent time outside of Hollywood, without working and without a professional structure, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
The text describes his case as one of the “most public and total collapses of a career in Hollywood in recent years.” Journalist Seth Abramovitch, who meets with Hammer for the first time since 2017, portrays a Hammer who hit rock bottom when he was left without work or contacts, declaring that “he would have done a cat food commercial to work.” In fact, he claims he lived in a tiny house for years, using a flip phone and a credit card given to him by a friend.
Hammer does not avoid talking about his responsibility for what happened; In fact, in a direct but nuanced way, he assures that he brought “his own problems” on himself, but denies the most serious accusations against him. Let us remember that several women accused him of “rape” and accused him of alleged sexual proposals with a cannibalistic tone. Still, Hammer acknowledges that his behavior prior to the accusations “wasn’t healthy.”
The actor also explains that he currently does not have the usual structure of a Hollywood star: he has no manager, representation team or publicist, and he manages his projects practically individually through a lawyer.
One of the most curious points of the report is when Hammer talks about how part of his professional circle distanced himself after the scandal, although he assures that some friends, specifically his gay friends, did stay by his side, whom he quotes as saying: “If the Grindr chats were leaked and someone hacked them, no one would have a job.”
Currently, Hammer says he has gradually resumed work on low-budget productions, such as Uwe Boll’s new film ‘Citizen Vigilante’, shot in Croatia, and affirms that he is focused on his family life, specifically his two children.
