Armie Hammer’s #MeToo saga is a sign that we need to talk about ways back from cancellation
nypost.comhe told Pier Morgan in an “Uncensored” interview last week — before explicitly denying ever having feasted on human flesh. “No.
Not a question I’d ever thought I’d have to answer, by the way. But no, never.”As far as #MeToo banishments go, his was a particularly bizarre and sordid Tinseltown tale.
An ascending Hollywood A-lister and son of a dynastic American family, he had his wings clipped in 2021 by a rapeallegationand claims that he was Hannibal Lecter — after he apparently told a mistress that he wanted to break and consume her rib.
The LAPD investigated but declined to charge Hammer with any crimes.But Hammerwasconvicted in the court of public opinion. Now, as we emerge on the other side of #MeToo and the fevered excesses of the era — banishing any and every person who had even a whisper of bad behavior — come into focus, we need to have a real conversation about allowing some people back into the fold.
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