You've Likely Never Heard These Things About Armie Hammer

the hammer came down on army hammer and now he works a normal job hey everybody's gotta eat here's the truth about the former actor's current life and how he fell from grace army hammer's family is wealthy the kind of wealth that allows for private schools prestigious connections and the kind of everyday privileges that most of us can only dream about but he doesn't come from a line of famous entertainers the hammer family has long been entangled in politics and oil and in some questionable ways hamr's great great grandfather julius hammer was a co-founder of the american communist labor party and a physician who briefly landed in prison after performing an abortion for the wife of a russian diplomat leading to her death while in prison he drew the admiration of vladimir lenin and his son armand hammer continued to have a cozy relationship with the soviet union in a new york times piece on arm and hammer from 1981 the then head of occidental petroleum was credited with maintaining solid business relationships with traditionally hostile countries like the ussr and libya under dictator momar al-gaddafi he was gifted a luxury apartment in moscow by soviet president leonette brezhnev and in 1972 he even got into legal hot water for illegal campaign donations to disgrace president richard nixon despite being a democrat well i'm not a crook as a youth army hammer was enrolled in a small private christian school according to a 2011 profile by new york magazine like many private school kids he exhibited a bit of a rebellious streak unlike most private school kids however those acts of rebellion included some light arson complete with an ill-advised signature hammer recalled to new york magazine i poured lighter fluid outside the school and set it on fire he went on to explain that he was caught because he had the bright idea to sign his name was set in lighter fluid hammer also added that he was asked not to return to the school by his junior year in high school he had permanently dropped out in order to pursue his acting career a few small television roles in one film later he landed his first featured league ironically as the iconic tv evangelist billy graham in 2008's billy the early years army hammer finally got noticed with a breakout role in 2010's best picture oscar nominee the social network in which he played twins cameron and tyler winklevoss we could do that ourselves i'm 6'5 220 and there's two of me his performance drew more acclaim and attention than ever before and it looked like the stars might be aligning for the guy then in 2011 it was announced that hammer had landed the title role in disney's mega budget adaptation of the lone ranger it was hammer time maybe or not the lone ranger was released in 2013 to brutal reviews widespread indifference and a not insignificant amount of ridicule lobbed that hammer's co-star and noted white man johnny depp in the film depp played native american sidekick tonto in a costume in makeup that could politely be described as baffled the film became one of the most infamous bombs in cinematic history variety reported in 2013 that the film was expected to lose a whopping 190 million dollars after its marketing costs were figured in why am i covered in dirt i buried you hammer and depp speaking with yahoo news took the slightly undiplomatic route to blaming critics for the film's failure it might have been enough to sink any young actor's career but the roles kept coming for hammer and pictures like the man from uncle in 2015 nocturnal animals in 2016 and call me by your name in 2017 another best picture nominee even as armie hammer embellished his reputation as a talented actor with turns and call me by your name and sorry to bother you he also embellished his reputation as a man seemingly made of red flags in 2019 he grossed out the entire internet with a single deleted instagram post featuring his then two-year-old son ford sucking on his toes then also in 2019 the los angeles times reported the hammer and other famous types were rightly getting swamped with criticism over their support of mdl beast a music festival taking place in the human rights challenge nation of saudi arabia and yet another since-deleted instagram post hammer gushed tone deathly what i just witnessed was truly special i saw saudi men and women ecstatic about an event that they never thought they would ever see in their lifetimes he went on to compare the event to woodstock and to comment that mdl beast would kick off a giant revolutionary cultural shift in the country this of course did not happen in 2020 a pair of women courtney viskovich and paige lorenz came forward with details of the intense and bizarre relationships they had had with army hammer vizkovich told vanity fair day one he makes you feel bad for him it's when he makes himself look like a victim you're the only girl in the whole world and then he starts the manipulation and the darker stuff i'm just closing my eyes until it ended she explained that she ended up in treatment for trauma after hammer talked her into a quote bondage scenario that she was in no way comfortable with lorenz asserted that her relationship with hammer got even darker telling vanity fair he started making rules for me of things i could and couldn't do i just started to feel really unsafe and really sick to my stomach about things she went on to call hammer kind of scary and had even once made a comment about wanting to eat her ribs lorenz said she came forward to bring more attention to the issue of consent she also said that her relationship with hammer had brought in to focus just how thorny of an issue consent can be lorenz also expressed her hope to start a charitable organization calling attention to the issue unfortunately it didn't take long for the scandal to worsen later in 2021 an anonymous woman going by the name of effie came forward to allege that army hammer had violently assaulted her in a hotel room in 2017. the woman said during a press conference with her attorney hammer repeatedly slapped my head against the wall along with other acts of violence against me to which i did not consent beyond the obvious horror of the allegations they threw into question a pretty darned high profile project disney's adaptation of agatha christie's death on the nile which was already completed and which featured hammer among its ensemble cast i've run dry on sympathy did you really think this little stunt of yours would bring me back to you you're a fool if you thought i could ever love you again as also reported by variety near the end of the year it was speculated that disney had several options to choose from in order to mitigate the potential damage caused by hammer's flame out including reshooting this part and or sending the movie straight to streaming in the end though the movie was released as planned promoted by a trailer noticeably light on hammer who did not take part in any of the film's press junkets disney may have been a little tentative and distancing itself from army hammer but as far as death on the nile goes it was at least relatively easy to downplay his presence among a gargantuan cast of superstars as it happened hammer had a couple more prominent roles lined up at the time the scandal broke and those projects were quick to drop him like a hot morally questionable potato in january 2021 it was reported that hammer had been dumped from shotgun wedding a rom-com in which he was to star opposite jennifer lopez hammer spun this by saying he couldn't take time off to be away from his children near immediately thereafter though variety reported that the offer the paramount plus series about the making of the godfather had also bestowed upon hammer his walking papers just a week after that daz was pretty much inevitable the news broke that both hammer's agency and his publicist had dropped him which probably didn't have much to do with his parental availability with all of his scandals one would think that armie hammer would do his best to lay low for a while perhaps by removing himself from the public eye altogether or refraining from posting things on social media that could further call his character into question this however was not the case in the middle of it all hammer took off to the cayman islands and tossed up a doozy of a since deleted instagram post a video of a young woman scantily clad and in a compromising position which he captioned miss kamen now the caymans have a beautiful pageant by a very similar name and the organization was quick to respond with a turf statement the committee is very disturbed by the video and would like to confirm that the woman is not the reigning miss cayman islands and has no affiliation to the miss cayman islands universe pageant hammer too felt the need to publicly clarify releasing a statement to the cayman compass newspaper hand-waving the instagram post as a quote foolish attempt to humor according to its website the royal cayman islands police service didn't find the situation to be too funny they briefly checked in to hammer over the post and warned him against such conduct in the future before closing the investigation finally in 2022 came what should probably be but is almost certainly not the final chapter in this sat saga tmz published the reports in july of that year along with photos stating that army hammer had once again been spotted in the cayman islands this time however he appeared to have landed himself a new job selling timeshares and acting as a personal concierge at moritz a grand cayman resort amherst camp didn't respond to the multiple requests for a comment at least not at that time just a few days later variety reported that it had spoken with an unnamed source who informed them that yes hammer was indeed employed by the resort as he was quote totally broke the very next day people published a report citing an insider who offered up the following hammer is currently selling time shares because he needs the money his dad won't help him anymore and he's been cut off so he got to work hammer's lawyer had finally chimed in by this point telling people that while he didn't know anything about the actor's current gig he did find it to be unfair that hammer was being shamed by the media for having a quote normal job in the wake of all of this awfulness the internet began regurgitating one of its longtime beefs with army hammer that's as a good-looking straight white man of privilege he had been afforded far more chances to become a highly bankable movie star than he deserved the opinion was crystallized in a 2017 buzzfeed editorial entitled 10 long years of trying to make army hammer happen which noted that despite the string of high-profile flops like the lone ranger the man from uncle and the birth of a nation hollywood just kept tapping him on the shoulder somehow it just doesn't seem like the right thing to do even as this public image kept steadily eroding a 2017 profile in the journal similarly noted that unlike say jon hamm hammer never had to wait tables while waiting to break into the big time the issue became glaring enough that hammer himself addressed it in a 2019 interview with the independent wherein he said a lot of the right words he said for example that the fact that his feet were up on the table at the time could be construed as a failure to check his privilege i mean like i'm just being comfortable and relaxed but there are things all the time that i catch myself doing and i think wait a second is this white privilege yeah i think it is look at what i'm doing if you or anyone you know has been a victim of sexual assault visit the rape abuse and incest national network website or contact raine's national helpline at 1-800-656-hope 4673

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Length: 10min 2sec (602 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 03 2022