Armie Hammer stepped down from his role opposite Jennifer Lopez in the upcoming ‘Shotgun Wedding’, declaring a brutal and false attack on him as the cause.
Hammer would immediately embark on the romantic adventure, but will now be recreated. The news comes after the “Call Me by Your Name” star started tending to social media last weekend after direct Instagram messages written by Hammer – which have not been verified – were written.
‘I do not respond to these stupid allegations, but in the face of the cruel and false attacks on me, I can not now in good conscience leave my children for 4 months to take a film in the Dominican Republic. “Lionsgate supports me in this and I am grateful to them for that,” Hammer said in a statement.
A representative of the production said ‘Armie asked to step down from the film and we support him in his decision. ‘
The messages shared sexual fantasies, leading to cannibalism, while the actor apparently wrote to a woman in the app that he was ‘100% a cannibal’ and ‘wanted to drink his blood’.
Hammer recently appeared in Netflix’s “Rebecca” and also plans to reprise his role in the upcoming sequel “Call Me by Your Name” with Timothée Chalamet, directed by Luca Guadagnino. He also plans to star in the Paramount Plus TV series ‘The Offer’, the behind-the-scenes story of the making of ‘The Godfather’.
Elizabeth Wagmeister and Ellise Shafer contributed to this report.