LOADING ERROR LOADING Jeremy Renner has made major changes in his life after surviving a nearly-fatal snow plow accident last year. The “Hawkeye” actor appeared on the “Smartless” podcast on Monday, and told hosts Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes that he now avoids certain “challenging” roles now after breaking nearly 40 bones and almost dying when his machinery ran over him. Advertisement Renner also said that he was “very terrified” to do “fucking fiction” when he returned to acting after his accident.
“I’m still trying to live in reality, I’m trying to live,” the “Mayor of Kingstown” actor said of his thought process when he was going back to work. “It was a hard line for me to cross ..
. It was very, very challenging for me mentally to get over that hump.” “And I still struggle with it sometimes,” Renner said.
“I don’t take it super seriously. I’m in a character that I can do very well, and I know the show very well, so it was easy for me to kind of slide back into it,” he said of his current role on the “Kingstown” TV show. “But if it was a very challenging role, I wouldn’t have ― I couldn’t have taken it,” he explained.
“Not challenging in the sense that — because the show’s challenging ― but it’s that, if I had to go play Dahmer or something, something so far from me, I don’t have the energy for it. I don’t have the fuel.” Advertisement Renner attends the Hawkeye Los Angeles launch ev.