Jeremy Renner is defending himself in opposition to an “insult offer” he claims to have obtained from Disney.
The actor, who performed superhero Hawkeye in a number of Marvel tasks, mentioned in a brand new interview on the “High Performance” podcast that the corporate approached him to do a second season of the Disney+ sequence “Hawkeye,” however they provided him half the quantity he made through the first season.
“They asked me to do a season two, and they offered me half the money,” Renner alleged. “And I’m like, wow. It’s going to take me twice the amount of work for half the amount of money. And so eight months of my time, essentially, and I have to do it for half the amount.”
He continued, “I’m like, ‘Why? ’Cause you think I’m only half the Jeremy ‘cause I got ran over?’”, referring to the Jan. 1, 2023 incident during which a snow plow rolled over him in his driveway, practically killing him.
Renner clarified, “And this is not Marvel, mind you, this is just Disney – not even really Disney, it’s just the penny pinchers, the accountants. I told them to go fly a kite, I mean just at the insult offer. So we didn’t see eye to eye on that.”
The “Avengers” star maintained that he nonetheless loves the character and that he would get pleasure from reprising the function, however he insisted he “had to defend myself.”
“I didn’t ask for any more money, mind you,” Renner mentioned. “It’s just ‘pay me what I made the first season.’ So it’s a little disheartening that that didn’t happen, but that’s fine. I’m happy to let that go because my body’s probably thanking me, time and time again, that I’m not doing it right now.”
Disney didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark, although the corporate did dispute Renner’s claims to The Hollywood Reporter.
“Hawkeye” premiered on Disney+ in November 2021. The miniseries ran for six episodes and was typically well-received. Renner additionally performed the character in a number of “Avengers” motion pictures, in addition to in “Captain America: Civil War.”
“Avengers: Doomsday,” the following chapter within the in style Marvel movie sequence, is about to launch in Might 2026. Renner has not formally been confirmed to be a part of the solid presently.
The actor is at the moment selling his new e-book, “My Next Breath,” a memoir about his 2023 near-death expertise.
“As I lay on the ice, my heart rate slowed, and right there, on that New Year’s Day, unknown to my daughter, my sisters, my friends, my father, my mother, I just got tired,” Renner wrote within the e-book, per Us Weekly. “After about 30 minutes on the ice, of breathing manually for so long, an effort akin to doing 10 or 20 push-ups per minute for half an hour … that’s when I died.”
“I died, right there on the driveway to my house.”
“I know I died — in fact, I’m sure of it,” he wrote.
Renner famous that the EMTs mentioned his “heart rate had bottomed out at 18.”
“This was basically dead,” Renner, who mentioned he was at “an exhilarating peace,” wrote.
“When I died, what I felt was energy, a constantly connected, beautiful and fantastic energy,” he added. “There was no time, place, or space, and nothing to see, except a kind of electric, two-way vision made from strands of that inconceivable energy.”
“I could see my lifetime. I could see everything all at once,” he added. “In death there was no time, no time at all, yet it was also all time and forever.”
