Armie Hammer says he “kind of likes” the cannibalism allegations.

Armie Hammer addresses previous rumors about cannibalism.

In the first episode of his new project The Armie HammerTime PodcastThe 38-year-old described the public's reaction to allegations of cannibalism as “wild”.

“It’s wild,” he told podcast guest Tom Arnold. “I'm not going to lie, I kind of like the cannibal stuff now.”

Hammer continued: “It is the allegations that are making so much noise. What makes more noise? “Armie Hammer is a cannibal” or “Armie Hammer is perhaps not a cannibal?” The cannibal thing is making more noise and there is no such thing as an apology tour in this world. For example, if someone says something about you, everyone believes it and they move on with their lives doing whatever they focus on because they have their own lives.”

In the 2022 documentation House of the Hammertwo of them Call me by your name The actor's ex-partners, Courtney Vucekovich and Julia Morrison, claimed he sent them messages describing cannibal fantasies about them. In April last year, after another woman made rape allegations against the actor, the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office confirmed that Hammer – who has denied any allegations of wrongdoing – was being investigated over allegations of sexual assault.

Ultimately there was not enough evidence to make a case and he was never charged, but the allegations derailed Hammer's budding Hollywood career. He last played the lead role in 2022 Death on the Nile and it doesn't appear to have any big screen projects in the works.

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Arnold, 65, responded to Hammer by saying, “The good news is you've been working on yourself.”

“When something like this happens, we do all the work on ourselves,” Hammer replied, “not to get the jobs back, but so that we don't care if we get the jobs back.” I think that's where I feel now. “

The Armie HammerTime Podcast will continue to feature “long, interesting conversations with people who have tools or skills or have acquired wisdom… that I don't know (and that I want to learn”), as Hammer said in an Instagram video today, October. 28.

“Some of you are going to love it, some of you are going to hate it,” he said in the video. “The original idea of ​​the podcast was kind of the concept that was developed over time.” In one day, every single person you interact with knows at least one thing that you don't know. So, teach me what this thing is.