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Late last month, Armie Hammer attracted a level of buzz he had not seen in years—at least not for an onscreen performance. The actor, whose once-promising career was derailed by a #MeToo-era cancellation, plays the starring role in Citizen Vigilante, a low-budget shock film from German provocateur Uwe Boll, sometimes cited as the world’s worst director. So how did Hammer feel about finally being in a film that grabbed international attention? “The first time he saw it, he was in tears,” a source in Hammer’s camp told me. And not tears of joy. “He called me and said, ‘Fuck. This is hateful, disgusting.’”
