Bill Maher is defending Armie Hammer.
The host of HBOâs Real Time With Bill Maher spoke out in defense of the Call Me By Your Name actor amid allegations of emotional and physical abuse by a number of women, which has already led to him being dropped by his agents and publicist.
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âI think we can talk about this in relation to where feminism is, because apparently, Armie Hammer has a predilection to tell his dates he wants to âeatâ them. And who wouldnât want to be eaten by Armie Hammer? Come on,â he said.
âApparently this is something called âethical human cannibal fetishism.â No actual women were eaten in the making of this movie. They were just talking. They have his texts, where he was saying things like, âI want to take your rib out and boil it with barbecue sauce.’ Weâre in such a porn-centric societyâpeople have been watching really hardcore porn for so long that âspank youâ doesnât really cut it anymore,” he continued.
âMy point is that the women who are objecting to this now, who went out with Armie Hammerâwillinglyâand stayed inâwillinglyâand there wasnât physical bad stuff happening, OK⌠we can all agree thatâs intolerableâbut if there wasnât any physical coercion, why isnât this just filed under, âThat seemed like a good idea at the timeâto let Armie Hammer eat meâbut it really wasnât.â It seems like we donât have any ownership anymore of our own choices,” he went on to say.
When one of the guests, TIME correspondent Charlotte Alter, said that âthere was some physical stuffâ and “some of the women have alleged that there was sort of some slapping around. One woman said he carved his initials into her body,” he replied: âDid he tie her down and do that? I donât think so.â
âI think he is exactly the guy in the book Fifty Shades of Grey, which was the most popular book ever, I think, with women⌠Heâs this rich, handsome, movie star guy, and heâs got a kink…if youâre gonna swim with the alpha sharks, itâs not gonna come out well in the end. Shouldnât you know that? I mean, is it really that hard to figure out without the law getting involved?â he went on to say.
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