Armie Hammer admits getting Johnny Depp ‘super stoned' during Lone Ranger Press Tour
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Reflecting on that period in 2013, Hammer admitted, 'I was smoking upwards of 15 to 20 joints a day'.
'I loved poisoning people': Armie Hammer's wild confession sparks concern
On the July 28 episode of Armie Hammer Time podcast, he made a startling admission. He said, 'I loved marijuana roofie-ing people,' he said with a laugh, adding, 'I loved poisoning people.' His longtime friend and co-host Ashton Ramsey quickly stepped in, urging him to 'self-censor.'
Ramsey then introduced what he called Hammer's most infamous moment: 'The most trouble you ever got into was when you basically got Johnny super stoned.'
Armie Hammer says he was banned from Depp during press tour
'They never let me hang out with Johnny on the press tour after that,' Armie Hammer recalled on his Armie HammerTime podcast, referring to his 'Lone Ranger' co-star Johnny Depp. 'They would always keep us apart. They were like, 'You two cannot hang out anymore.''
'A bite of tradition': Armie Hammer's hunting ritual sparks fresh outrage
Earlier this year, Armie Hammer made headlines yet again by sharing a story that apparently aired on The Louis Theroux Podcast, released on February 11. E! News reported that the 'Call Me By Your Name' star claimed to have eaten a bite of a living animal's heart on a hunting trip and called it some sort of tradition that lasted thousands of years.
'You don't eat the whole heart. One of the traditions is you take a bite out of the heart,' Hammer explained, adding that he was 'goaded on' by friends during the expedition. He emphasized that the act was not rooted in violence or sexual gratification, but rather an exaggerated male initiation ritual.
Armie Hammer defends animal heart ritual amid past allegations
On The Louis Theroux Podcast, released February 11, Armie Hammer recounted a controversial moment from a hunting trip, where he took a bite out of a living animal's heart.
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'It's sort of like an overly charged male rite of passage when you go hunting for the first time,' he explained. 'Everyone I know who went hunting for their first time had to do something similar.'
Hammer emphasized that the act was not rooted in violence or sexual intent, saying he cut out the heart 'not for the purpose of any cannibalism or any sexual gratification.' Addressing the 2021 allegations of cannibalistic fantasies, he added pointedly, 'You know what you have to do to actually be a cannibal? You have to actually eat human flesh.
So no'.
Johnny Depp returns to Hollywood in Day Drinker, Reuniting with Penélope Cruz
Johnny Depp is currently working on Day Drinker, his movie with Penélope Cruz and Madelyn Cline. This is the fourth time Depp has worked with Cruz, 51, and it appears to be his highly anticipated return to Hollywood for Depp, and it will be his first major studio job since 2018's Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
Last month, Johnny Depp made a splash at the U.K. showing of 'Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness,' his first directorial project in 20 years. The audacious film is based on Dennis McIntyre's play about a chaotically dark moment in the life of Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani. Riccardo Scamarcio plays the tortured artist, and Al Pacino plays art collector Maurice Gangnat.
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