Armie Hammer Returns With 4 Films After 5-Year Hiatus Following Abuse Allegations
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Updated · Hollywood Reporter · Jun 16
Armie Hammer Returns With 4 Films After 5-Year Hiatus Following Abuse Allegations
2 articles · Updated · Hollywood Reporter · Jun 16
Summary
Four low-budget films have put Armie Hammer back to work, his first acting jobs in five years after allegations of psychological and sexual abuse derailed his Hollywood career.
Citizen Vigilante, shot in Croatia for director Uwe Boll, was the first offer Hammer received; he says it led to three more projects, including Frontier Crucible and Night Driver.
2021 allegations, explicit messages attributed to Hammer and a rape accusation he denied prompted an LAPD investigation that later closed without charges, but agents and publicists dropped him and work vanished.
Los Angeles and the Cayman Islands framed his hiatus: Hammer says he couch-surfed, lived in a 200-square-foot Venice apartment, cared for his dying father and rebuilt his life around his 11-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son.
West Hollywood now anchors a tentative comeback, with Hammer represented only by an entertainment attorney and acknowledging he remains "not yet entirely un-canceled."