Jeremy Renner has opened up about his reasons for refusing to return to the Mission: Impossible film series.The Hawkeye star featured in two of the Tom Cruise-led action blockbusters: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol in 2011, and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation in 2015.However, Renner did not return for the two films that followed in 2018 (Fallout) and 2023 (Dead Reckoning – Part One), with his character William Brandt having retired from the spy force at the end of Rogue Nation.And now, in an interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the actor has revealed that he was in fact invited by the films’ producers to reprise the Brandt character in Fallout, but he was told it would be to shoot for one week, during which Brandt would be killed off.“I remember they tried to bring me over[seas] for a week so they could kill my character, and I was like, ‘No, you don’t get to do that. You’re not going to drag me over there and just kill my character,’ like get out of here!” Renner said (via Variety). “If you’re going to do this and you’re going to use my character, you’re going to do it right.”“I yelled at [director Christopher McQuarrie],” he joked.
‘Mayor Of Kingstown’ Producers Had To Make Changes For Still-Recovering Jeremy Renner
18.05.2024 - 02:27 / deadline.com
Jeremy Renner is back at work on his series Mayor of Kingstown after his well-documented snowmobile accident and recovery.
But he’s still not physically all the way back.
“To try to create some truth and then get the audience to believe it, while I’m just trying to learn to walk again, to put one foot in front of the other and not get up in agony. I’m doing all these things to find my footing on the planet again,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “The idea of going into a fictional world — I have to be honest with you, I had to really consider, Is this something I really want to do?”
The actor’s energy levels aren’t quite what they were. Renner was falling asleep during takes on his first week back. “They go, ‘And action!’ And I was out,” he said. “We realized they worked me too hard, too many hours, too many days in a row. What I’m willing to do is everything, but what I’m able to do is a different thing.”
Producers are accommdating Renner’s limitations. They modified the shooting schedule and carve out time for him to stretch and exercise while on the set.
Renner also remained in Pittsburgh for the four-month shoot instead of flying back and forth from California.
“They have to treat me like treat me like I’m a child actor. The mayor of Kingstown is now like a 14-year-old,” he joked.
Renner has naturally developed a new outlook on life after his ordeal. He now says he tries to “find sobriety through humor. I was always looking for a joke to crack because I know it requires timing and [the ability] to read the room. And it also just feels good to laugh.”
He added, “I’m alive. I’m walking through life with a smile on my face. And there’s nothing that’s ever going to change that. Nothing. It’s impossible for me to
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