Jeremy Renner has been out of the limelight for quite a while after suffering from an almost life ending accident with a snowplow in January of 2023. But now, two years and a book credit later, Renner sounds like he’s ready to get back to acting. While at the Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia, the actor was asked bout his limitations and responded by jokingly comparing himself to his Avengers ally, Iron Man.
“I don’t think of it as limitations – even though I’m 25% titanium, so f— Iron Man,” said the actor. Obviously Renner and Robert Downy Jr. are on good terms and this was a joke, but it emphasizes the actors mindset after dealing with one of the most scariest things any person can deal with. The snowplow accident left him with blunt chest trauma and 38 broken bones. Let’s be honest, most people probably wouldn’t have come back from that.
The actor gets a little more serious and recounts the support he got during the time he was injured: “It’ll be two years in January, and I am very, very proud to overcome a great adversity in my life, and I’m forever grateful for all the love and support I’ve gotten from people all around the world, even those I never knew existed, that helped propel me to get better, and it’s the only thing that really kind of defines me in my life at this point.”
Renner is best known for his role as Hawkeye, who has appeared in many different Marvel projects up until this point, including a self titled Hawkeye series that debuted on Disney+ back in 2021. The show saw his character Clint Barton take in and train a young Kate Bishop (played by Hailee Steinfeld), while teaming up to take down the major antagonist Kingpin, played infamously by actor Vincent D’Onofrio.
During his recovery, Renner recounts that he has been spending his time by writing a book about the entire experience: “I’m writing a book about it right now. While I’ve been here this whole trip,I’ve been doing the final edit on it, so it’s kind of fresh in my brain, because I tried to push it away a lot of times…. because I did die, and I came back, and I came back for a reason, and nothing to do with me.”
Renner is already back on set, this time for the Taylor Sheridan Paramount+ series, Mayor of Kingstown, where he plays character Mike McLusky and will begin filming the third season of the show in January. He also has already finished filming Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the first project he’s worked on since the accident. That movie wrapped filming over this last summer and will be released in theaters in the fall. No word yet on an MCU return of a second season of Hawkeye, but if we hear anything we will keep you updated.