After languishing in cancellation purgatory for more than three years, actor Armie Hammer has started making his return to polite society. And we seriously need to consider letting him back in — even though, yes, he has been accused of being an abusive, kinky “cannibal.” “You know what you have to do to be a cannibal? You have to have actually eaten somebody,” he told Pier Morgan in an “Uncensored” interview last week — before explicitly denying ever having feasted on human flesh.
“No. Not a question I’d ever thought I’d have to answer, by the way. But no, never.
” As far as #MeToo banishments go, his was a particularly bizarre and sordid Tinseltown tale. An ascending Hollywood A-lister and son of a dynastic American family, he had his wings clipped in 2021 by a rape allegation and claims that he was Hannibal Lecter — after he apparently told a mistress that he wanted to break and consume her rib. The LAPD investigated but declined to charge Hammer with any crimes.
But Hammer was convicted in the court of public opinion. Now, as we emerge on the other side of #MeToo and the fevered excesses of the era — banishing any and every person who had even a whisper of bad behavior — come into focus, we need to have a real conversation about allowing some people back into the fold. Especially if they’ve taken responsibility.
On Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast last week , Hammer insisted all of his kinky encounters were consensual, but he freely a.