Armie Hammer says past allegations were “the greatest thing that ever happened to me” in Louis Theroux podcast

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The Louis Theroux Podcast, due for release today (February 11).Known for his prominent roles in The Social Network and The Lone Ranger, Hammer last appeared in the 2022 mystery Death On The Nile.

Months before that film’s release, he faced public accusations of sexual assault from multiple women, all of which he has refuted.No charges were brought against the actor following an investigation, but Hammer was dropped by his agency and forced to leave the film Shotgun Wedding with Jennifer Lopez.

His role in Taika Waititi’s comedy Next Goal Wins was also re-shot, his character taken over by Will Arnett.Within the past year, Hammer has slowly emerged back into the public eye – he was announced as starring in the upcoming Western film Frontier Crucible, and he launched his own podcast, The Armie HammerTime Podcast.

In a recent interview, he also claimed that his job slate has been “pretty full” enough that he’s begun to turn down other offers.He has also previously addressed his past allegations, especially in an interview with Piers Morgan, who asked him specifically about the allegations of cannibalism.Now, Hammer has spoken at length about the allegations and his career with Theroux in the episode, in which he said that the allegations were “the greatest thing that ever happened to me” after gaining “a sense of distance and perspective from it”.In a teaser for the episode shared on social media, Theroux asks Hammer if he had anything else to say – to which, Hammer responds that Theroux starting the episode by asking about the allegations “stirs up the water again, unnecessarily” but was glad the two “got to a place where we could have a civil, normal conversation”.The lengthy interview covered a broad range of topics: his.