![]() As of today, he has no more roles to shoot: his career has crunched to a halt.Ĭlearly, Hollywood views Hammer as untouchable, at least for the time being. He was dropped from a Cold War thriller Billion Dollar Spy, and his scenes in the forthcoming Taika Waititi football comedy Next Goal Wins were reshot with Will Arnett. As for Hammer, he retreated to a rehab facility in Florida last May for what Vanity Fair described as “drug, alcohol, and sex issues”, and was pointedly sidelined in the Death on the Nile publicity materials no character poster for him. ![]() Los Angeles police opened an investigation into the alleged assault, which concluded in December, with the celebrity news site TMZ reporting that charges are unlikely to be brought. Further private messages purportedly sent by the second ex-lover to Hammer and a third party also materialised, the contents of which appeared to contradict her story. “From day one, Mr Hammer has maintained that all of his interactions with – and every other sexual partner of his for that matter – have been completely consensual, discussed and agreed upon in advance, and mutually participatory,” he said. A month later, a second ex-lover accused him of having violently raped her in 2017 – a claim strongly rebutted by Hammer’s lawyer. As these stories broke, the actor dropped out of two high-profile projects: a Jennifer Lopez rom-com and the TV series The Offer, about the making of The Godfather (he was to play the film’s producer Al Ruddy).īy early February, he had been dropped by his agency and his publicist. (The messages were never proven to have been sent by Hammer and no legal action was taken.) In an interview the following week, an ex-lover described “manipulative” and “obsessive” behaviour, as well as more cannibalistic pillow talk, during their four-month relationship.Įlsewhere, a video surfaced which appeared to show Hammer drinking beer while driving and licking white powder off friend's hand. Screenshots of private messages purportedly sent by the actor described sexual fantasies involving violence and cannibalism. (In the end, his big break came three years later, playing the Winklevoss twins in The Social Network.)īut in early 2021, lurid allegations about Hammer’s personal life emerged online. Those qualities were presumably what in 2007 prompted Mad Max director George Miller to cast the then-22-year-old Hammer as his Bruce Wayne/Batman in Justice League: Mortal, a cancelled (in the traditional sense) superhero team-up film that just predated Hollywood’s cinematic universe age. The great-grandson of an oil tycoon with an intense gaze and a looming 6’5” stature, he was a unique presence in Hollywood: a matinee idol with the threat dialled up. When Hammer was cast, he seemed on an unstoppable roll: he’d just shot the new Netflix adaptation of Rebecca opposite Lily James, and had won praise for his work in films as wide-ranging as Call Me By Your Name and The Man From UNCLE. ![]() Gal Gadot, Letitia Wright and Russell Brand have all been caught up in online brouhahas of varying severity, but their plights all pale next to that of Armie Hammer, who plays the debonair Simon Doyle – the new groom on the wedding cruise. But reputations can crumble in the span of three Tweets these days, let alone years – and in the interim, it’s fair to say the baggage on this voyage has significantly increased. When it was shot in 2019, that cast must have looked irresistible. Swap ‘dead’ for ‘cancelled’ and that’s more or less how it feels to watch Kenneth Branagh’s glossy new adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie whodunit. “ He’s dead.” " He’s dead.” “ She’s dead.” A pause, then all together: “ He’s dead.” “ He’s dead,” one of them invariably pipes up whenever a new minor character appears. The track features Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer riffing in character as their hard-rocking alter egos, a decade and a half after the legendary comedy’s original theatrical release. While watching Death on the Nile this week, I was reminded of a brilliant running joke on the DVD commentary for This is Spinal Tap.
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