Armie Hammer says his handlebar mustache is ‘part hairy biker, part 1970s pervert’

Armie Hammer’s new facial hair is no joke.

In April, the “Call Me By Your Name” actor, 34, shocked fans by showing off a new mohawk and handlebar mustache that set Twitter alight with Joe Exotic comparisons.

However, it appears that the look wasn’t just cosplay.

Hammer explained the backstory of his mustache — and showed it off in its full, fuzzy glory — in the latest issue of British GQ.

“[My publicist] begged me to shave it off, but we needed to get a few shots with the ‘tache, man. It was too damn good,” he told the magazine when asked about the look, explaining that he was stranded with then-wife Elizabeth Chambers in the Cayman Islands during the coronavirus pandemic’s early stages.

“Part hairy biker, part 1970s pervert, nothing in between.”

He continued, “It didn’t take that much work, actually; I just grew it out. I started shaving my beard and wondered, ‘Hey, what would happen if I just leave this side, then the other side?’ Boom. I was good to go.”

In the rest of the interview, Hammer delves into his relationship with Chambers, describing the difficulty of quarantining in the Cayman Islands together as a “very complicated, intense situation” heightened by having “big personalities all locked in a little tiny place.”

He also called his subsequent divorce a “seriously seismic event” in his life. Hammer and Chambers, 38, announced their split in July after 10 years of marriage. They share two children, daughter Harper, 5, and son Ford, 3.