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Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. It took Armie Hammer a while to make it in Hollywood. And when he finally did, it was messy. At first, the Armie Hammer rumors looked like they were just embarrassing kink stories.

Then the rumors got darker. Not as fun as drugs. But what is. Effie is accusing Hammer of emotional and physical abuse, including sexual assault Effie, left, and Armie Hammer in Effie says she was involved with Hammer for four years and has accused him of rape.

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Here's a deep-dive into Armie Hammer's recent controversy. All Rights Reserved. Then I stood back. A long way off. And I blew the thing up with a machine gun. The current task was selling this guy to an audience who might not know him, or only know him as the Winklevoss twins. But no amount of cool bro-ification of Hammer could save Lone Ranger , whose failure felt foretold before the movie hit theaters. But as the Los Angeles Times noted , critics do not, and cannot, write reviews that early.

That posture came across as bitter, not to mention false — especially to anyone who had seen the deeply mediocre film. But Hollywood would never give up on a guy that handsome, that tall, that white, with a jaw that square. He needed to recalibrate and lie low after the press barrage of Lone Ranger. So Hammer disappeared for the rest of and the entirety of A few months later, there was a half-hearted attempt to reignite the Hammer embers with a cameo in the Entourage movie.

And then: nothing. No prominent interviews, no magazine covers. There were, essentially, no more attempts to Make Armie Hammer Happen. The movie is actually quite fun; Hammer and his costars, Alicia Vikander and fellow handsome almost-leading-man Henry Cavill, are good. Indeed, its advertising buys for U. Why, then, did Hammer effectively not promote the film? In hindsight, it appeared Hammer was very much over it.

When he signed on to the film in April , Tom Cruise was attached to play the role that would eventually go to Cavill. But then Cruise dropped out, purportedly because of shooting conflicts with the fifth Mission: Impossible which would later decimate U. But one demi-star plus another demi-star did not make a whole. The actors behave more like mannequins than men. In refusing profiles and in-depth interviews, he also refused to endorse, or even participate in, the myth of his own stardom.

And so he left big-budget movies behind, seeking an altogether different route to Making Armie Hammer Happen: indie martyrdom. Or, you know, winning an Oscar and regaining their position of lost prominence. Usually, the star inhabits a role that contrasts with or undercuts their existing star narrative: the pretty girl is cast as an ugly one Charlize Theron ; the comedian is cast as a villain Robin Williams ; the hunk is cast as a perv Jake Gyllenhaal.

Indie martyrdom is a relatively recent phenomenon, largely because you need indie films capable of making prestige-y splashes in order for it to work. John Travolta was one of the first to successfully pull it off, effectively jump-starting his broken-down career with Pulp Fiction. Hammer and Chambers had announced their split in July, before the controversy, and after the family had spent time together in the Cayman Islands, quarantining during the COVID pandemic. I support any victim of assault or abuse and urge anyone who has experienced this pain to seek the help she or he needs to heal.

Elizabeth filed for divorce shortly after. For Chambers, that means keeping her children on Grand Cayman Island, where she has posted photos of herself with her daughter and son, reading bedtime stories, celebrating Christmas, enjoying Easter egg hunts and heading to a sunset dinner on the beach.