Armie Hammer Says He 'Kind of Likes' Allegations of Cannibalism Levied Against Him Now: 'It's Wild'

Mar. 15, 2025

Armie Hammer in 2018.Photo:Mike Coppola/Getty

Mike Coppola/Getty

Armie Hammeris addressing past rumors about cannibalism.

On the first episode ofhis new project,The Armie HammerTime Podcast, the 38-year-old called the public’s reactions toallegations 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.”

Armie Hammer in 2018.Christopher Polk/Getty Images

Christopher Polk/Getty Images

There ultimately wasnot sufficient evidence for a caseand he was never charged, but the allegations derailed Hammer’s burgeoning Hollywood career. He last starred in 2022’sDeath on the Nileand 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.”

Armie Hammer, on Instagram.Armie Hammer/Instagram

Armie Hammer/Instagram

The Armie HammerTime Podcastwill 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 anInstagramvideo 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.”

source: people.com