Actor Jeremy Renner revealed that he turned down a second season of Marvel’s Hawkeye after receiving “an insult supply” from Disney’s “penny pinchers.”
“They requested me to do Season 2, and so they provided me half the cash. I’m like, ‘Well, it’s going to take me twice the quantity of labor for half the amount of cash, and eight months of my time, primarily, to do it for half the quantity,” Renner disclosed throughout an appearance on High Performance to advertise his new e-book, My Next Breath: A Memoir.
Renner puzzled if his near-fatal January 2023 accident – the place he was crushed by his snow plow and broke over 30 bones, leaving him with 25% titanium in his physique and a really lengthy restoration interval – performed a think about getting low-balled.
“I’m like, ‘I’m sorry? Why? Did you suppose I’m solely half the Jeremy as a result of I received ran over? Maybe that’s why you need to pay me half of what I made on the primary season.’”
Renner made it clear, nevertheless, that the article of his ire will not be Marvel Studios and even father or mother firm Disney per se and that he would nonetheless wish to reprise his position because the bow-slinging Avenger at some point.
“This will not be Marvel, thoughts you. This is like, simply Disney, not even actually Disney. It’s simply the penny pinchers, the accountants. I instructed them to go fly a kite. I imply, simply on the insult supply. So we didn’t see eye to eye on it.”
“I nonetheless love the character. I’d nonetheless like to do it, however I needed to defend myself,” Renner continued. “I didn’t ask for any extra money, thoughts you. Just pay me what I made the primary season. So it’s all disheartening that that didn’t occur, however that’s high quality. I’m blissful to let that go, as a result of my physique’s in all probability thanking me, time and time once more, that I’m not doing it proper now. But we’ll see.”
Renner’s Hawkeye co-star Florence Pugh reprises her position as Yelena Belova on this weekend’s Thunderbolts.
Find out what Pugh instructed us about leaping off the second tallest constructing on the planet for the movie, how lengthy its post-credits scene is and likewise be sure you learn our Thunderbolts evaluation.
