Dakota Johnson Cracks Tone-Deaf Armie Hammer Jokes: He’d Have Cannibalized Me!

Many credit Dakota Johnson with helping to deal the death blow to Ellen DeGeneres’ career.

But that doesn’t mean that Dakota can’t sabotage herself, too.

In recent years, Armie Hammer’s victims have come forward to accuse him of vile things and sensational things.

For reasons that only she knows, Dakota decided to make a joke out of all of that human suffering.

PARK CITY, UTAH – JANUARY 19: Dakota Johnson speaks onstage during Sundance Institute’s ‘Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance Presented by IMDbPro’ at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival at The Basin Recreation Fieldhouse on January 19, 2023 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for IMDb)

Dakota Johnson gave a speech at the podium at Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance presented by IMDbPro.

During the Thursday event, she was ostensibly there to sing the praises of director Luca Guadagnino.

Luca directed Call Me By Your Name. Dakota cracked a joke about playing a non-human role in the film: the peach.

Too many ruffles, Dakota Johnson. From top to bottom of this dress, just too many ruffles.

There is a memorable moment in the film when Timothee Chalamet’s character uses a peach to masturbate.

One would normally assume that this would be impossible (or at least uncomfortable), but both the actor and director tested it in real life. Separately, mind you.

“Sadly, I wasn’t in [Call Me By Your Name],” Dakota quipped. “Because I would’ve been another woman that Armie Hammer had tried to eat.”

PARK CITY, UTAH – JANUARY 26: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been converted to black and white.) Armie Hammer of ‘Wounds’ attends The IMDb Studio at Acura Festival Village on location at The 2019 Sundance Film Festival – Day 2 on January 26, 2019 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for IMDb)

Actually, no, that’s not the truth, Dakota. But we’ll get to that in a moment.

When Dakota voiced this “joke,” a few people let out an awkward chuckle. Then, a prolonged and awkward pause filled the audience.

Finally, people cheered — apparently, eager to break the tension and move on.

Dakota Johnson attends the EE British Academy Film Awards at The Royal Opera House on February 14, 2016 in London, England.

Guadagnino’s latest project is Bones and All, which happens to involve … well, cannibalism. After a fashion.

(At the risk of getting too technical, “eaters” in the film don’t seem to be normal humans, but it’s either cannibalism or something very similar)

Because of this, Dakota quipped: “Who knew cannibalism was so popular?”

Armie Hammer Out and About
Armie Hammer appears here in glasses as he walks on busy streets before the pandemic, speaking to his camera.(Photo via Instagram)

Honestly, it’s a bad joke for a couple of reasons.

First of all, Armie Hammer’s “edgy” sexual fantasies were just that. Talking about extreme BDSM or impossible scenarios (including cannibalism) happens between consenting partners. There’s no evidence that he’s a cannibal. Some of his messages were just cringey and sensational.

Secondly, and more importantly, there are rape accusations against Hammer. His cringe text messages are pretty meaningless compared to the allegations of abuse, manipulation, and sexual assault. And it renders the whole thing pretty un-funny.

SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 23: Armie Hammer speaks onstage during the 2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards on February 23, 2019 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images)

We do have to be insufferable nerds for a moment and address Dakota’s line about the peach because … it doesn’t make sense?

In the film, Armie Hammer’s character does not eat the (what we will euphemistically call) “yum-filled” peach.

Yes, in the book, the character very knowingly eats the peach in a very charged scene. Not in the film. In fact, Slate bemoaned this change in a 2017 article. So Dakota didn’t even have her facts straight. Corny.

Dakota Johnson Cracks Tone-Deaf Armie Hammer Jokes: He’d Have Cannibalized Me! was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip .