Armie Hammer Talks About ‘The Lone Ranger’

Armie Hammer talks to Access Hollywood about working on The Lone Ranger with the whole Pirates of the Caribbean club: Johnny Depp, director Gore Verbinski, and producer Jerry Bruckheimer. “Fortunately, the club has very lenient acceptance rules apparently,” joked Hammer when asked about being the new “president” of this established group.

Talking about being a part of this huge budget production, Hammer goes on to say, “I was nervous up until lunch on the first day when I realized…I was in line getting food and I realized, ‘This feels like a bunch of dudes in a room with a camera making a movie.’ This is what I love about this. Everybody’s doing one thing, so it doesn’t feel cumbersome in any way.”

Hammer also talks about his butt, Johnny Depp’s accent as Tonto, Gore Verbinski as a director, and this version of the Lone Ranger character. “It’s less of that two-dimensional same kind of like Prince Charming thing and more of like the human underneath all of that,” says Hammer.

And a bit of big news is revealed: Hammer’s Lone Ranger doesn’t really say, “Hi ho, Silver!”

The Plot:

“The Lone Ranger is a thrilling adventure infused with action and humor, in which the famed masked hero is brought to life through new eyes. Native American spirit warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of the law, into a legend of justice–taking the audience on a runaway train of epic surprises and humorous friction as the two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and corruption.”