Jeremy Renner recalls feeling insulted by Disney's offer after his life-threatening accident

During a podcast with High Performance, Jeremy Renner, known for his role as Hawkeye, the bows and arrows superhero of the MCU, opened up about how he felt insulted when Disney offered to do a Hawkeye Season 2. The actor, who made his way through the MCU, claims that Disney offered him only half the amount he had received during the first season of Hawkeye. Feeling insulted by the steep drop in pay, he flatly refused to work with Disney on the next season of the widely rated web series.

“They [Disney] asked me to do Season 2, and they offered me half the money. I’m like, ‘Well, it’s going to take me twice the amount of work for half the amount of money, and eight months of my time, essentially, to do it for half the amount.’… I told them to go fly a kite,” said the actor during the podcast.

He also mentioned that it’s not Marvel behind this, but Disney—or rather the “penny pinchers” at Disney—the accountants.

The MCU superhero expressed his frustration over how he felt that a major accident, where a snowplow ran him over, made Disney think he deserved a lesser amount of money. “Did you think I’m only half the Jeremy because I got run over?” asked Jeremy.

In the wake of his near life-or-death experience following a snowplow accident in early 2023, Jeremy Renner was bedridden and suffered severe, life-threatening injuries. As he calls this accident “an innocent, critical, life-changing moment” in his recently published memoir My Next Breath, the incident occurred during an attempt to save his nephew from his own snowplow machine. The actor, who was suddenly admitted to the hospital, sustained 38 broken bones, a collapsed lung, his liver pierced by one of the broken bones, and many more injuries.

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