1 year ago
28
Armie Hammer's Lawyer Addresses Those Concierge Rumors
Dakota Johnson drew a notable absorption from the assemblage astatine the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
The histrion appeared astatine the event's inaugural meal Jan. 19 to contiguous an grant to Call Me by Your Name manager Luca Guadagnino, whose 2017 movie co-starred Armie Hammer. In her speech, Johnson made a gag astir not being capable to instrumentality portion successful that peculiar movie.
"Luca had asked maine to play the relation of the peach, but our schedules conflicted," she said, arsenic seen successful a video posted to societal media. "Thank God, due to the fact that past I would person been different pistillate that Armie Hammer tried to eat."
Her quip comes precisely 2 years aft respective women made cannibalistic sex-fantasy allegations against Hammer successful aboriginal 2021. Days aft the unverified messages surfaced connected societal media, Hammer denied the accusations, calling them "bulls--t claims."
Later that year, Johnson—who antecedently worked alongside Hammer successful the 2010 movie The Social Network—shared her feelings successful the aftermath of the misconduct and maltreatment allegations that helium and different co-stars including Johnny Depp and Shia LaBeouf faced astatine the time. (Both person denied allegations brought distant against them successful ineligible filings).
"I ne'er experienced that firsthand from immoderate of those people," she told The Hollywood Reporter in November 2021. "I had an unthinkable clip moving with them; I consciousness bittersweet for the nonaccomplishment of large artists. I consciousness bittersweet for radical needing assistance and possibly not getting it successful time. I consciousness bittersweet for anyone who was harmed oregon hurt. It's conscionable truly sad. I bash judge that radical tin change."
Getty Images
Referring to the taxable of cancel culture, she continued, "I deliberation there's decidedly a large overcorrection happening. But I bash judge that there's a mode for the pendulum to find the middle."
"The mode that studios person been tally up until now, and inactive now, is behind," she added. "It is specified an antiquated mindset of what movies should beryllium made, who should beryllium successful them, however overmuch radical should get paid, what equality and diverseness look like. Sometimes the aged schoolhouse needs to beryllium moved retired for the caller schoolhouse to travel in."
Johnson concluded, "But, yeah, cancel civilization is specified a f--king downer. I hatred that term."
E! News has reached to retired Hammer's lawyer for remark and has not heard back.
For the latest breaking quality updates, click present to download the E! News App
