Armie Hammer Talks Double Standards

Armie Hammer recently sat down for an interview with The Hollywood Reporter to promote his new film Call Me By Your Name. Here are some excerpts from that interview:

On wife Elizabeth:
"It was one of those lightning-strikes moments," says Hammer. Elizabeth had a boyfriend at the time, and Hammer was "aggressively not looking." So for three years they were "just friends, which was incredibly liberating," says Hammer. "It was like, 'I don't have to impress you. I'm going to tell you everything. I'm going to tell you if I slept with somebody. If I took drugs.' We became closer, until one day I said, 'You have to break up with your boyfriend so we can start dating.'"

On growing up in the Cayman Islands:
"I definitely wasn't like, 'This is how everyone grows up.' We got to live in amazing places. We had great things, toys, stuff like that. We would drive around in really nice cars — but at the same time, if we rolled down the window, my mom would be like, 'You're wasting air conditioning!' ...You can't hide behind anonymity. You have to be nice to everybody, or else you get a reputation. Everybody was multiracial. There was a lot of mixing. So I was always 'the white boy.' "

On double standards:
"There was another person in the industry, who had a competing film for the Academy Awards, who decided to release all of the phone records and information [about Nate Parker when Birth of a Nation was released]. I've been told who did it — by several people." Nate had the stuff in his past, which is heinous and tough to get beyond. I get that. But that was when he was 18, and now he's in directors jail. At the same time, the guy who went and won an Academy Award has three cases of sexual assault against him (Casey Affleck). And [Parker] had one incident — which was heinous and atrocious — but his entire life is affected in the worst possible way. And the other guy won the highest award you can get as an actor. It just doesn't make sense. I'm not saying Nate should not have been in trouble. I'm saying that they got in different levels of trouble. And that's the disparity. It's like there are two standards for how to deal with someone who has this kind of issue in their past, you know?"

Read the full interview at The Hollywood Reporter.

Armie Hammer gets candid about his steamy new movie 'Call Me By Your Name,' failed star vehicles (including a scrapped Batman movie) and why 'Birth of a Nation's' Nate Parker was treated differently than Casey Affleck: "It's like there are two standards." Read more in THR's latest cover story, link in bio. Photo: @brianbowensmith

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