Armie Hammer

In the new film Rebecca, Golden Globe-nominated Armie Hammer plays Maxim De Winter, a man best described as romantic, rich, prudish, sinister, and full of secrets. As the great-grandson of tycoon Armand Hammer, the 34-year-old Santa Monica born actor could logically have developed in a similar fashion.

Armie Hammer has a supporting role as a psychopathic CEO in Boots Riley’s debut feature film Sorry to Bother You. But in his eyes, his character is not too far-fetched.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture (Call Me By Your Name)“I knew I had to do this movie because it challenged me and made me nervous,” divulges Armie Hammer about his decision to tackle the role of Oliver in Call Me By Your Name. Those anxieties didn’t arise from the fact that the 31-year-old actor would be asked to do things on screen he had never done before (let’s just say it involved a peach).

Stressors that cause fear are something that, in real life, most of us try to avoid. Humans, after all, instinctively seek out that which offers them comfort.

Golden Globe nominated director Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name debuted to much buzz at the Sundance Film Festival and showed at the Toronto Film Festival in advance of its awards-season theatrical release this fall. Adapted by James Ivory from André Aciman’s 2007 novel of the same name, the coming-of-age story stars Armie Hammer as Oliver, an American college student who spends a summer in Italy doing post-graduate study and finds himself slowly falling into a romantic relationship with the younger teenage son of his hosts, Elio (Timothée Chalamet).

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For Owen Wilson Cars 3 meant reprising the role of Lightning McQueen but infusing the champ with the self-doubt and introspection that comes with inevitable decline. The task of giving life to brash young upstart Jackson Storm fell to Armie Hammer.

Armie Hammer was in Park City last year as part of the Birth of a Nation crew that took Sundance by storm. This year he is back with a film, which drew similar emotion from the Eccles audience.