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“Right, Armie, get up there!”’Īnd you can imagine him merrily clambering right up. We know you’re concerned, don’t worry, we’re going to use a double.” Click. No stunt double? ‘Ha, I think that’s where they’re probably like: “Oh hi, Mr Insurance Company. Standing up there for five hours, feeling the platform sway.’ What’s the craziest thing he’s done for an adrenalin rush? The moment in The Lone Ranger when his character awakes to find himself on a tiny platform 1,000ft above the desert, he admits. ‘Elizabeth calls it my frontal lobe development disorder – that’s where you assess risk.’ ‘Now I do it for the both of us,’ says Hammer. The pair have been married for two years and were both adrenalin junkies until Chambers broke one of her back bones while cliff-diving. You have to break up with your boyfriend.”’ ‘One day I just said: “Look as much as I enjoy being friends with you, this is bulls***.
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‘I thought she was spectacular,’ he says.
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Hammer fell for his wife, TV journalist Elizabeth Chambers, when she had a boyfriend. What, romantically? ‘I wish! God, he’s dreamy!’Ĭavill would certainly have some competition. ‘I think if Henry and I did that film and then a superhero film straight after, people might start to wonder about us…’
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alongside Henry Cavill, the current Man of Steel. ‘If you have a guy who is supposed to be invulnerable, then what’s the point?’ Anyway, he adds, he’s ruled himself out of doing a film with Superman by signing up to Guy Ritchie’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E. ‘I’m not actually a big fan of superhero films,’ he says. Hammer was once due to play Batman in a Justice League film before the project fell apart during the 2007 Hollywood writers’ strike but he dismisses the new rumours. Hammer is now tipped for several other projects, including the role of Batman in the next Superman movie, which will feature both superheroes. In any case, his parents, who belong to an illustrious lineage – his great-grandfather was an oil tycoon who had the ear of several politicians and who set up the Hammer Museum of Art – weren’t happy, although he says they’ve been on board since they could see he was ‘committed’. Stories abound about him selling exam answers and generally misbehaving. ‘I wouldn’t say I was an ideal student but I definitely wasn’t the worst,’ he says. Growing up in LA and the Cayman Islands (‘God, I loved being an expat, I could have stayed there forever.’), he left school aged 17 to pursue acting. He wasn’t quite so civilised at school, though. ‘Yeah, because my parents would slap the s*** out of me if I didn’t act that way,’ he chortles. Hammer brings to it an old-fashioned innocence as the lawyer trading in his stiff white-collar existence for a life of vigilante justice.īoth on screen and in person, Hammer has an innate niceness about him.
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‘For me, it was just like: “What?! I get to make a movie with Jerry Bruckheimer and Johnny Depp? And I get to be the main character? Where do I sign?”’įor the record, the film is pretty good fun, despite the poor critical reception: a nostalgic mish-mash of homages, packed with the stunning, barren landscapes of the US frontier and a soundtrack that recalls the pining melodies of Ennio Morricone. ‘It is kind of all over the place but it’s great fun,’ he says. It was quite intense, he admits, but then Hammer seems like someone who takes things in his stride, including the criticism levelled at The Lone Ranger for being tonally inconsistent.