Armie Hammer, the controversial actor who starred in the steamy, Oscar-winning gay romance Call Me By Your Name, says he “tried hooking up with a dude one time,” but it didn’t work out.

“It was hilarious,” Hammer said on a recent episode of his Armie HammerTime Podcast. “Because I was like, you know what? Like, women are the worst.”

See the conversation in the video below, beginning at about 14:15.

“Gay dudes seem to have it so easy. Like, so easy,” Hammer said before giving an example. “I’m at a restaurant, my phone blows up, and it’s, like, Grindr, and someone else is like, ‘I’m at the same restaurant. Do you want a b——- in the bathroom?’ And you’re like, ‘Hey, guys. I’ll be back in five minutes.’ And then you get up and you go to the bathroom, you get a b——, and you come back, and you’re like, ‘What was that?’ So I was like, you know what? I’m gonna give this a try…maybe this actually works for me.”

Then he met a handsome French man.

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“I was like, Okay, this could work. This could work. Let’s try this,” Hammer said. “I remember I started making out with him. And I just remember being like, ‘God, beards. I get why women like it when you shave. This thing is f—ing rough.”

He also didn’t appreciate the man’s stature.

“I put my arms around him, and I was like, oh my god,” Hammer said. “And these shoulders are so wide. He’s so big. Like, he’s almost my height. Like, this is so strange. And it did, physically, for me, absolutely nothing. Not even a twitch…. And then I remember, like, we were, like, making out, and it was kinda getting hotter and heavier. But I was, like, going through the motions…he reached for my d—, and I was like, ‘You’re not gonna touch my flaccid penis.'”

They had to stop, Hammer told his kissing partner.

The Social Network actor infamously left Hollywood after he was accused of sexual assault in 2021. He denied wrongdoing, and the Los Angeles County District Attorney declined to file charges against him in May 2023; however, there was still fallout. Several of his accusers shared messages they said he had sent them that included references to cannibalism and BDSM. Hammer was dropped by his agency and projects, including 2022’s Shotgun Wedding with Jennifer Lopez and the making–of–The Godfather TV series The Offer. He’s expected to return to the big screen in Frontier Crucible, an upcoming Western with William H. Macy.