Armie Hammer Says He 'Kind of Likes' Cannibalism Allegations

“Someone says something about you, everyone believes it, and they move on with their lives,” said Armie Hammer on the first episode of his new podcast

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Armie Hammer is addressing past rumors about cannibalism.

On the first episode of his new project, The Armie HammerTime Podcast, the 38-year-old called the public’s reactions to allegations of cannibalism “wild.”

“It’s wild,” he told podcast guest Tom Arnold. “I'm not going to lie, I kind of like the cannibal stuff now.”

Hammer elaborated: “The accusations are the thing that make so much noise. Like, what makes 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 apology tour 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've got their own lives.”

In the 2022 documentary House of Hammer, two of the Call Me by Your Name actor’s exes, Courtney Vucekovich and Julia Morrison, alleged that he sent them messages detailing cannibalistic fantasies about them. In April of last year, following another woman’s rape accusation against the actor, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office confirmed that Hammer — who has denied any allegations of wrongdoing — was being investigated over claims of sexual assault.

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There ultimately was not sufficient evidence for a case and he was never charged, but the allegations derailed Hammer’s burgeoning Hollywood career. He last starred in 2022's Death on the Nile and does not appear to have any screen projects in the works.

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Arnold, 65, responded to Hammer, saying, “the great news is that you've worked on yourself.”

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

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The Armie HammerTime Podcast will continue to feature “long-form, interesting 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 an 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 sort 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."