Jeremy Renner after his horror accident
He was “very afraid” of acting
Jeremy Renner had a serious accident in January 2023.
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18 months after his terrible snowplow accident, Jeremy Renner still lacks the energy for demanding roles.
Jeremy Renner (53) does not have “the energy” to take on demanding roles after his near-fatal snowplow accident 18 months ago. In a podcast, he also said he was “terrified” of acting again.
“I just don’t have the energy for it. I don’t have the fuel,” Renner explained to moderators Will Arnett (54), Jason Bateman (55) and Sean Hayes (54) in the “Smartless” podcast about major challenges in front of the camera. He has to put so much energy “into this reality, into this body, into all these things,” Renner added: He can’t just pretend it’s different.
Renner broke more than 30 bones on New Year’s Day 2023 when he was buried under a snow plow in the accident on his property. The actor explained that his ribcage was rebuilt with metal, plates in his face support his eye sockets, and he has titanium rods in one of his legs.
“A big challenge”
He finally returned to the camera in January of this year to film his series “Mayor of Kingstown”. The 53-year-old told Arnett, Bateman and Hayes about his return to acting: “I’m still trying to live in reality. So it was a hard line for me to cross. It was a big stretch. It was a big challenge for me to overcome that hurdle.”
He still struggles with it sometimes: “I don’t take it super seriously. I’m in a role that I can play very well and I know the show very well, so it was easy for me to slip back into it,” Renner said of his role as Mike McLusky in “Mayor of Kingstown.” “But if it had been a very demanding role, I wouldn’t have been able to take it.” He meant a role like that of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, which is “so far removed from me,” he explained. In 2002, he appeared in the film “Dahmer.”
Jeremy Renner will now appear alongside Daniel Craig (56) in Rian Johnson’s (50) third “Knives Out” film, “Wake Up Dead Man”. It is his first film role since the accident.