After the manipulative text incident, Armie Hammer really believes he can make a comeback in Hollywood.

He was believed to be reclusive, devastated, forever banned from the Hollywood studios of which he was once the pride. So we couldn’t help but cringe when we spotted Armie Hammer’s face in our news feed on Monday, October 28th. In his latest Instagram post, the actor is seen sitting on a wheeled vehicle wearing a hat against a blue sky and palm trees. “I went away for four years and now I’m back,” she tells her million subscribers. Such a coincidence leaves us speechless.

Accused of sexual harassment and sending inappropriate text messages, especially of a cannibalistic nature (“I would like to cut a piece of your skin and ask you to cook it for me…Tell you to open your veins and use blood as lubricant,” he wrote in one of them), Armie Hammer had virtually disappeared from the radar.

Here he is back on our screens, happily announcing the launch of his podcast, The ShowArmie Hammer Time:. Conceived of as a “private diary,” it chronicles how the actor rebuilt himself after the media storm. And a key stakeholder explained, visibly amused by its small effect. others hate it.” That was all it took to pique our interest.

“I like these cannibals stories”

Then we go to his new Youtube channel, followed by 1640 subscribers. A gesture we soon regretted. the loans ofArmie Hammer Time: begins with a video of a human skull fractured by a hammer (hammer in English). All this, followed by psychedelic excerpts, including a sequence where a man is hit by a cannonball. We wonder for a moment at the relevance of this artistic choice.

To his first guest, actor Tom Arnold (One day, a bigger hit and runArmie Hammer doesn’t hesitate to poke fun at the “weird” accusations he’s been the subject of. “It’s crazy,” he exclaims hilariously. I’m not going to lie, I like these cannibalism stories about me.” All this, sitting in an office chair, facing an old sofa, in a bare apartment. And we wonder if we haven’t landed on a parallel plane.

Back to Los Angeles

Because a little anxiety invades us. Armie Hammer tries to casually return to the front line. At least that’s what an anonymous source says in the columns People in June. “He wants to prove himself and regain confidence by returning to Hollywood,” the witness stated.

We also discover that the hero Call me by your name (2017) on Tuesday, October 23, it was quiet in the stands at a basketball game in Los Angeles. In the photos of the event, the actor appears proud with sunglasses on his nose. And poses next to his former assistant Jeremy Kehen. Proof that the 38-year-old actor is no longer afraid to develop in an open environment.

After getting past the element of surprise, we are surprised by his presence in the City of Angels. Since last we heard, Armie Hammer has been working as a real estate agent in the Cayman Islands. However, in a video published on his Instagram on August 28, the latter reveals that he returned to his apartment in Los Angeles in the summer. The actor adds, poor guy who traded in his pickup truck for a hybrid model because he couldn’t afford a full tank of gas. “New car, new apartment, new life in Los Angeles,” he enthuses, welcoming this “new beginning.”

Hostile lands

It is true that the actor has come a long way. In 2021, he was the subject of an investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) after a woman named Effie filed a complaint against him. She accuses him of “raping her for over four hours” in 2017, “banging her head against the wall.” A testimony to which is added the testimony of many young women. Among them is one Courtney Vucekovich, the founder of a mobile beauty app.

She would have an affair with the actor from June to August 2020. And in turn describes him as a “disciple of Hannibal Lecter”. “He told me he wanted to break my rib so I could barbecue it and eat it,” he said at the time. In May 2023, the Los Angeles County District Attorney decided not to indict Armie Hammer due to insufficient evidence. But although the actor avoided legal proceedings, he became persona non grata in Hollywood. On the personal side, his ex-wife Elizabeth Chambers filed for divorce in 2020. His bank account, like his tank, is completely dry.

If the website is to be believed Celebrity Net Worth his capital today is… 10,000 dollars (9,200 euros). And we wonder what could have happened to Armie Hammer during these wandering years. Our research leads us to an obscure place Compass of Cayman . Where we learn that the actor, in utter disgrace, tried to find several jobs in the Cayman Islands. He, in turn, would apply to become a janitor, a landscaper, or even a theater teacher.

However, nothing helped. the local authorities refused to give him a work permit. Armie Hammer eventually got a job selling timeshare properties (contract offers that are supposed to let you enjoy a vacation home for a week or so a year). But the hotel complex was fined $1,500 (€1,300) for employing the actor without a work permit. A sanction that marked the end of this enchanted bracket.

Repossession action

Two years later, he returns to public life here. And he tries to restore his image as best he can. In his new podcast, the actor assures that he has “worked on himself” and is “not worried” about finding a job on Coline. Better yet, Armie Hammer declares himself “grateful” to have made it through this dark episode.

The ordeal, he says, was a saving grace, allowing him to heal his alcoholism and bond with his children, Harper, 9, and Ford, 7. In July, he announced on a podcast Club Maher that he was “broken” but “happier than ever”. He added that if he had not faced this storm, its trajectory would have brought him certain death.

“I felt ego death, career death, financial death (…),” he lists on the Bill Maher podcast. You must die, and when you die, you can be reborn. A phoenix cannot be reborn if there are no ashes.” The message is clear: Armie Hammer is a new man. All the same, we find it a little difficult to adhere to the selfless return thesis. It is also interesting that the actor has been absent from the sets since his film Death on the Nile In 2022, he really hopes to forget what he is accused of.

Back to filming

And we can’t help but shudder when we see that a year and a half later, fans are suspiciously humorously suggesting his name to take over the role of Patrick Bateman, the psychotic killer.American Psychologist In the remake of Luca Guadagnino (Call me by your name). According to the website Deadline: which we consult as we conclude this column, Armie Hammer could indeed return as an outlaw, but not quite as much as we think. The title stands out before our eyes. “Armie Hammer returns as an actor in a western Border jar“. After all, we sigh, what better way than a western to end such a journey through the desert?