Actor Armie Hammer was banished from well mannered society over allegations of cannibalism, rape and different kinky conduct. It value him his big-time Hollywood profession and his status.
He was investigated by the LAPD however not charged with against the law, so now he’s working his approach again the one approach a determined particular person does in 2025. By beginning a podcast.
On Sunday, the accused intercourse pest used his platform to speak concerning the time he was so sexy, he switched groups as a hack to search out no-strings gratification.
“It was hilarious,” he mentioned on “Armie HammerTime,” including, “Gay dudes seem to have it so easy, like, so easy!”
He described assembly a “handsome French” dude. “I was like, ‘Okay, this could work. This could work. Yeah. Let’s try this.’”
He then supplied a blow-by-blow retelling of his bisexual experiment: kissing, groping and, finally, the conclusion that the opposite man’s beard and masculine construct had been a turnoff.
“It did physically for me absolutely nothing,” he mentioned. “Nothing, like, not even a twitch.”
Talking of doing nothing for him, there’s this dialog.
I’ve argued that we as a tradition must make room for folk like Hammer, who turned #MeToo roadkill after being convicted within the courtroom of public opinion.
However shaddap already.
Possibly it’s not the studly “Call Me by Your Name” star we want again — however disgrace.
We’re, undoubtedly, within the golden age of celeb TMI. Everybody has a podcast, and so they’re dying to bombard you with tawdry tidbits. The extra outrageous, the higher.
Many celebrities don’t trouble creating artwork anymore. The brand new showbiz is hawking lurid private revelations — for clout, on-line affect, or to promote no matter crappy product they’ve slapped their title on.
It’s low-cost and undignified. It’s additionally a crowded area, which has upped the ante. Or lowered the bar.
Need to know each element about “The Hills” Kristin Cavallari’s intercourse life? No downside, she’s speaking about it nonstop on “Let’s be Honest with Kristin Cavallari.” Generally, she spreads it round: In December, the mom of three went on Bunnie XO’s podcast “Dumb Blonde to yap about country star Morgan Wallen, saying he was “a great f–k buddy.”
This girl is 37 and has three youngsters, together with a daughter, who presumably have entry to Google. Have some pleasure. Some self-respect.
Final 12 months, Katy Perry went on “Call her Daddy” — the primary clearing home for reasonable intercourse revelations — to disclose that she rewards her fiancé, Orlando Bloom, with oral intercourse if he’s completed his family chores.
“I mean, like, literally, that is my love language,” she mentioned, “I don’t need a red Ferrari. I can buy a red Ferrari. Just do the f–king dishes! I will suck your d–k! It’s that easy!”
Nice.
These conversations are billed as informal and radically genuine to create an phantasm of no-holds-barred dialog. Nothing is off-limits. Who is aware of what can occur. However these are as calculated and self-serving as fluffy outdated journal profiles of yore.
They’re simply extra raunchy, to create some concept of faux intimacy between the celeb and the viewers.
To plug her new podcast, “Reclaiming,” Monica Lewinsky just lately went on “Call Her Daddy” to relitigate the almost 30-year-old presidential intercourse scandal she insists she is getting back from.
Whereas I’ve sympathized with Lewinsky — along with her anti-bullying marketing campaign and her publicity of the feminist hypocrisy — it has grow to be her total profession. And that’s a alternative.
A podcast is simply the most recent iteration.
This isn’t to disparage the method all collectively. Some podcasts function unbelievable interviews with actors, athletes and different notables — deep dives that don’t dip into the gutter to fill time and seize clout.
Libertine conduct has lengthy been stitched into the inventive class: intercourse, medicine, deviance. However so was discretion. No extra.
No marvel the ever-shrinking A-list is an endangered idea.
That degree of fame requires thriller and intrigue — not one thing we as a society worth anymore.
