You can pre-order\u00a0Frontier Crucible\u00a0now on Apple TV<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt’s no secret that Hammer has been caught\u00a0up in various controversies; no criminal charges were ever filed, but he was hit with multiple sexual misconduct\u00a0allegations in 2021 that derailed his acting career. Now, though, after spending some time away from the spotlight to work on himself, The Lone Ranger star is looking to return to Hollywood.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The actor delivers a great performance in\u00a0Frontier Crucible and has terrific chemistry with Jane. When we spoke with The Punisher star earlier this week, we asked about their dynamic on set, and he told us this about working with Hammer and why he believes his co-star deserves the chance to prove himself:<\/p>\n
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“Armie is terrific. He’s an erudite, very intelligent, educated, creative, artist. He’s a great guy. I had a blast. You know, he’s done a lot of work on himself, and it shows. People either get beat down by life, or they rise to the occasion. And Armie has risen to the occasion. He’s a good human being, and I like to see that. We all have challenges. We’ve all got our our road to hoe, right? How you do it and what you do with it is what really counts.”<\/p>\n
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“If I were in trouble,\u00a0Armie\u00a0would be one of the guys that I could call, and I know that he’d be there. When you get beat up, it tends to make you humble, and I’ve been through it, and I know that it makes us better people.”<\/p>\n
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“We made cowboy coffee every day. We didn’t have trailers, so we would show up and grab firewood wherever we could, and we’d build a little pit, and we’d make cowboy coffee every morning. We’d keep that fire going, and the other actors would come around. We were shooting in the fall, so it would get chilly at night. That fire became the central fire that we would all dance around as we were making the movie. That\u00a0was Armie, you know, one day just going\u00a0to build a fire, and we were out in the middle of goddamn nowhere. We did that every day.”<\/p>\n
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Elsewhere in the interview, Jane tells us about what draws him to the Western genre, the movie’s practical effects, and explains why he doesn’t believe he was well-cast as Frank Castle in 2004’s The Punisher.<\/p>\n
Frontier Crucible arrives in theaters and on Digital on December 5, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frontier\u00a0Crucible\u00a0comes our way from the producer of\u00a0Bone Tomahawk\u00a0and kicks off with a\u00a0wagon carrying crucial medical supplies that need…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[105563,430,156,105561,111,139,69,105562],"class_list":["post-160358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-armie-hammer","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-frontier-crucible","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-thomas-jane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}