Armie Hammer Is 'Back in the Saddle' as He Books His Acting Return in a Western Movie

Mar. 15, 2025

Armie Hammer on March 17, 2019.Photo:Jim Spellman/WireImage

Jim Spellman/WireImage

Armie Hammeris returning to acting following hismyriad of controversies.

On Wednesday, Oct. 30, Hammer, 38, shared three photos of himself wearing a cowboy hat and holding a movie script toInstagram.The Hollywood Reporterlater reported Hammer is set to star in an upcoming Western titledFrontier Crucible.

“Back in the saddle,” Hammer wrote in a caption to his post. His mother Dru shared some support for her son in a comment on the post, writing, “SOOOOO PROUD OF MY SON!!!! 🤠 LU💚🩷”

Armie Hammer attends the ‘Free Fire’ Closing Night Gala screening during the 60th BFI London Film Festival on October 16, 2016.Gareth Cattermole/Getty

Gareth Cattermole/Getty

Hammer’s post comes as the actor appears intent on making a comeback in Hollywood, some three years after his movie career stalled out when a series ofallegations of physical and sexual abusewere made against him in 2021. The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute Hammer for at least one alleged sexual assault in May 2023, citing “insufficient evidence to charge Mr. Hammer with a crime” at that time.

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“I’ve been gone for the last four years and now I’m back, you know,” Hammer said of his podcast in avideohe uploaded to Instagram on Oct. 28. “What are you going to do? So it’s going to be a sort of journal, a chronicling of putting my life back together.”

Armie Hammer poses for a photo at BOSS Menswear - Front Row at New York Fashion Week Mens' on February 7, 2018 in New York City.Mike Coppola/Getty

Mike Coppola/Getty

During that first podcast episode, Hammer and Arnold, 65, touched on past allegations that the actor wasinterested in cannibalismas well as their sobriety and experiences in therapy.

“When something like this happens, we do all this work on ourselves not so that we can get the jobs back but so that we don’t care if we get the jobs back," Hammer said of his career at one point. “I think that’s where I feel like I am now.”

According toTHR,Frontier Crucibleplans to film in Arizona in November.

source: people.com