Armie Hammer "cried" when he got his first movie offer in five years from Uwe Boll.

The Call Me by Your Name actor saw his career go into freefall in 2021 after being accused of physical and sexual abuse but was brought out of the Hollywood wilderness by the German filmmaker, who wanted him to appear in his film Citizen Vigilante, though Armie admitted he had reached a point where he would have acted in almost anything.

He told The Hollywood Reporter: "I'm pretty sure I cried. It was just this moment where I was like: I'm going to get to do the thing that I love more than anything -- other than my children.

"I would have done a f****** cat food commercial. I just wanted to work again."

But despite his excitement, Armie as "scared s***less" about the project because he was terrified he'd forgotten how to act.

He said: "I was scared s***less until the moment Uwe said action for the first time.

"And then I was like -- 'Wait. I do know how to do this.' There's a reason I had the success I had."

He has made three more low-budget movies since and admitted producers are always amazed to land the 39-year-old star.

He said: "Lately, they always say on the first day of set, 'We can't believe we actually got you to do this.' And I'm like, 'My schedule was pretty open.' "

In the wake of the scandal, Armie - who has Harper, 11, and Ford, nine, with ex-wife Elizabeth Chambers - retreated to the Cayman Islands with his family and returning to Los Angeles proved more difficult than he'd expected.

He said: "I was back in a city that felt like it used to be my city, but it had moved on without me."

Despite the scandal and its subsequent fall out, Armie wouldn't go back and undo everything that happened if he could.

He said: "Honestly, no.

"I remember the emotional state and the mental state I was in before all that happened. Healthy people don't act the way I was acting.

"I would have loved if I could have had an opportunity to do it in a little bit more of a gentle way. But at the end of the day -- you get what you get."

The Social Network actor believes he used his vices in a doomed bid to fill a "black hole" inside of himself.

He explained: "I used to call myself a consumer. Drinks, women, validation, experiences -- I just wanted to consume. All of it. More, more, more.

"I didn't actually know how to give myself what I needed internally, so I relied on external sources. It's like a black hole -- no matter how much you throw in, it's gone. You're never going to fill up a black hole.

"I had a bit of imposter syndrome. I was like, 'I don't really belong here, but it seems like I'm here -- so maybe I'll have a martini, that'll make me feel better about the fact that I'm here.' "