Jeremy Renner stated he turned down a second season of the Marvel sequence Hawkeye after being provided “half” his authentic wage.
The 54-year-old actor starred as his Avengers character Clint “Hawkeye” Barton within the first season of the present, which aired in 2021.
On New 12 months’s Day 2023 he was concerned in a severe accident whereas serving to clear snow from the driveways of his neighbors. He was crushed by his massive, seven-ton snow plow earlier than being airlifted to hospital the place he was handled for extreme accidents, together with a collapsed lung and greater than 30 damaged bones.
Talking on the High Performance podcast, Renner stated of Hawkeye: “They requested me to do Season 2, they usually provided me half the cash. I’m like, ‘Properly, it’s going to take me twice the quantity of labor for half the sum of money, and eight months of my time, basically, to do it for half the quantity.’”
He added, “I’m like, ‘I’m sorry? Why? Did you assume I’m solely half the Jeremy as a result of I received ran over? Possibly that’s why you need to pay me half of what I made on the primary season?’”
That is “not Marvel, thoughts you. That is like, simply Disney, not even actually Disney. It’s simply the penny pinchers, the accountants. I informed them to go fly a kite. I imply, simply on the insult supply. So we didn’t see eye-to-eye on it.”
Renner went on to say that he would nonetheless be open to returning to the character sooner or later, including: “I nonetheless love the character. I’d nonetheless like to do it, however I needed to defend myself. I didn’t ask for any more cash, thoughts you. Simply pay me what I made made the primary season!”
So “it’s a bit disheartening that that didn’t occur, however that’s high quality. I’m pleased to let that go, as a result of my physique’s most likely thanking me, time and time once more, that I’m not doing it proper now. However we’ll see,” he added, referring to the power it has taken him to only get by each day life after his devastating accidents.
Final 12 months, Renner stated he was “very terrified” about his return to appearing after the accident, significantly when it got here to taking part in characters very distinct from his personal persona.
“I simply don’t have the vitality for it,” stated Renner. “I don’t have the gas. I’ve a lot gas to place into this actuality, this physique, all these items. I can’t simply go play make-believe proper now. As a result of [it] takes lots of time to get proper right here on daily basis simply so I can have a constructive thought, so I can progress, so I can at all times continue to grow.”
As a result of “I’m to do, like, f***ing fiction? I’m nonetheless attempting to reside in actuality, I’m attempting to reside. So it was a tough line for me to cross,” he added. “It was an enormous stretch. It was very, very difficult for me mentally to recover from that hump.”
