All the headlines today read: Elizabeth Chambers, actor Armie Hammer’s soon-to-be ex-wife, BREAKS her SILENCE. She broke her SILENCE with an Instagram comment, a perfect way to BREAK one’s silence. She wrote “No. Words.” under a Just Jared post about Timothée Chalamet, actor and walking l’accent aigu, and his Call Me by Your Name director, Luca Guadagnino. If you know, you know, but for the uninitiated, Hammer was Chalamet’s costar in the movie.
Admitting you have “No. Words.” is quite a way to BREAK one’s SILENCE—the words acknowledge something, but also really say nothing at all. What is she acknowledging by commenting that she has nothing to say beneath a Just Jared post? Not her and Hammer’s separation, which they announced in a joint statement in July, but the year beginning with women—one anonymous, two on the record—accusing Hammer of taking a sexual kink too far. That is, he took it into the realm of abuse, they’ve alleged. Hammer has publicly denied the accusations, but has since pulled out of two projects: a rom-com with Jennifer Lopez and a television show about the making of The Godfather.
The kink itself is cannibalistic tendencies, and those tendencies were first alleged by direct messages posted online. The woman who posted the screenshots claimed they were from the actor, who was still with Chambers at the time. Others followed, including one ex who gave a long, on-the-record interview in Page Six that detailed several accusations of strange and devastating behavior. So there are many elements and allegations here: cannibalism, adultery, and abuse. (“Real” cannibal fetishists, I guess, are mad at Hammer too.)
Now the film that Hammer’s former costar and director are working on—well, actually, here is The Hollywood Reporter’s description of it: The film is based on a book that “follows Maren Yearly on a cross-country trip as she searches for the father she’s never met in an attempt to understand why she has the urge to kill and eat the people that love her.” So it’s about a cannibal.
Because there’s potential abuse here, none of this is very funny. But it’s a wild coincidence that the two people whom Hammer worked with on his most popular film are now working together on a cannibal film amid his cannibalistic controversy. And for that, it’s reasonable that Hammer’s ex might have “No. Words.”
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