Armie Hammer says his career is picking up after three years in industry exile following sexual assault allegations.

Hammer, who returned to acting last year opposite William H. Macy in the Western feature “Frontier Crucible,” was accused of sexual assault in 2021 by a number of women with whom he’d engaged in extra-marital affairs. Following a lengthy LAPD investigation no charges were filed. Hammer always maintained the relationships were entirely consensual. Despite that, his acting work dried up and he was dropped by WME. At one point he resorted to selling timeshares in the Cayman Islands.

Now, the actor says, Hollywood is giving him a second chance. “The worm is turning, it takes time,” he told Christina Pazsitzy and Tom Segura on the most recent episode of their podcast “Your Mom’s House.” “It’s slow, but generally now the conversation when my name comes up with people in the industry is, ‘Man, that guy got fucked.’ And that feels really good. It’s really encouraging.”

Hammer, who also launched his own podcast last year after moving back to L.A., said that he’s just finished shooting “Frontier Crucible” and has two more feature films coming up – one set to shoot this month in Croatia and the other in the Philippines in spring — despite still not having agency representation. Instead his attorney is negotiating the deals. He also said there’s a potential TV show in the works that had been signed off by “the head of a studio.”

In fact, so busy is Hammer he’s “turning jobs down,” he said. “My dance card’s getting pretty full. That first job that I turned down after four years of this shit, I mean, it was the best feeling I’ve ever had.”

During the podcast, which was released Jan. 1, the actor also reminisced about some of the directors and actors he’d worked with during the height of his career, including David Fincher on “The Social Network” and Guy Ritchie and Henry Cavill in “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” Working with Fincher, Hammer said, was “scary, very scary.”

“He knows how to do every single person’s job better than they do,” Hammer said. “And if you are doing your job well he doesn’t talk to you or he ignores you because he’s like, ‘You’re doing your job. That’s what you’re here for. Go do your job.’ And if you fuck up, he’s gonna whip his head over and look at you and you want to die. He’s probably one of the smartest people that I’ve ever worked with.”

Ritchie meanwhile “wants to have a good time. He loves making movies, he loves the people that he’s working with, and he wants it to be an experience.”

As for Cavill, Hammer said he liked to gently “antagonize” the “very professional” British actor. “Henry is great because he is there to work. He’s there to do his job. Very professional, I would say even very guarded. So you don’t really get in. I like getting in there. So I’d be like, ‘Henry! Come on buddy.’ I’d antagonize him and just barge into his trailer and be like, ‘What’s up, bro?’ And he’d be like, ‘Hello? What are you doing? This is my trailer.’ But we had a great time.”

Hammer also discussed the scandal that brought down his career, which included claims of BDSM and cannibalism. “I think somewhere deep down, subconsciously I wanted to get caught,” he admitted. “I so did not relate to the image of me that was out there in the public of ‘Look at them [Hammer and his wife, Elizabeth Chambers]. They’re like the Ralph Lauren family. They’ve got the perfect life and the perfect house and the perfect kids.’”

“I feel like a fucking alien walking around most of the time,” he added. “I don’t feel like a human. I feel like a creature.”

Now he’s prepared to have “uncomfortable conversations” about everything from his kinks to his childhood on his own podcast. “I’m doing it on my terms and I’m doing it authentically as myself,” he said of the venture. “And that’s one of the scary things about doing this, and one of the scary things about having the podcast is being vulnerable in a public way, especially having gone through what I went through where all this shit was weaponized against me, is really fucking scary. But I’m leaning into it because I know that the things generally that make me feel afraid are the things that I gotta go towards in order to grow.”