“The real Avenger.” This is what social media nicknamed Jeremy Renner after he shared in detail what happened to his body during the serious accident he suffered while trying to rescue his nephew from a snowplow on New Year’s Day in 2023.
Known for his role as Clint Barton in the films and series of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), the actor recently gave an interview to Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show, where he revealed that he broke 38 bones at that time. “It was brutal,” he said.
“How much of you is titanium right now?” the driver asked jokingly, but Renner surprised by answering that at least one of his legs, “the entire right side” of his back and half of his face were metal.
The snowplow model that partially crushed him was a 6,300-kilogram PistenBully, which left him in critical condition and required multiple surgeries. He added that he had 14 fractures in his ribs alone: “And you know, I saw my eye with my other eye because my eyeball was protruding.”he added.
He also explained the importance of keeping breathing, even as he watched his body buckle: “I didn’t know I had a burst lung and all those other things going on, but I just had to breathe. “If I hadn’t breathed, I would have been gone.”
Despite the severity, Renner maintains a positive attitude, describing the experience as a life lesson: “You are being tested to your limits, your physical limits, your spiritual limits, your emotional limits. It’s like I won’t have a bad day for the rest of my life. It’s impossible, right? There is that gift.”
In all this time, the actor has shown notable progress in his recovery, sharing videos on his social networks where he is seen walking and exercising. He even dared to do some punches and kicks in the air in a TikTok with Fallon.
At the beginning of this year, the actor announced his new album Love and Titaniuma musical project he created while struggling to cope with his injuries.
“It was wonderfully healing. My whole recovery has been that the better I was, the better everyone else became. I have a huge family, I have a 10-year-old daughter, [y] “It would have disappointed her and really ruined a lot of people’s lives if she had passed away,” he mentioned.
The great return to acting
Currently, Renner returned to the set to finish filming the third season of Mayor of Kingstown, a series he has starred in since 2021. The Paramount+ police thriller helped him reconnect with his physical strength.
The production co-created by Taylor Sheridan and Hugh Dillon focuses on the character Mike McLusky (Renner), the city mayor who must deal with local gangs, the police and prisoners; so it includes some fighting and violence scenes.
As the two-time Oscar nominee acknowledged, he fainted while filming, so he had to slow down the accelerated pace that is usually common in these productions: “When I said action I was left out. “We realized they had made me work too hard, too many hours, too many days in a row.”
“Starting the season at the beginning of the year was a bit risky, but in the end, I feel pretty strong. In general [en su condición] I’d be pretty gutted energy-wise. I had to lean on the cast and crew physically and emotionally to get through the days. “They made up for it with programming and stuff, so I could get stronger,” he told Good Morning America.
The third installment of Mayor of Kingstown will arrive on Paramount+ on June 6, 2024.
