More than one year after Jeremy Renner’s terrifying snowplow accident that left him fighting for his life, the actor has made a surprise confession about his return to work . In the months following the accident, the Marvel star was receiving around-the-clock medical care in an intensive care unit. While he overcame 38 broken bones, a collapsed lung and significant blunt chest trauma, the star says it wasn’t just his personal life the accident had an impact on.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times , the 53-year-old star opened up about how the accident also changed his approach to acting. Confessing his on-set physical abilities are restricted now, he said it has resulted in cast and crew treating him differently, “They have to treat me like I’m a child actor,” he told the news outlet. “The mayor of Kingstown is now like a 14-year-old.
” Discussing his first week back at work in January this year - exactly 12 months after the accident - he said he once fell asleep during takes. “They go, ‘And action!’ And I was out,” he said. “We discovered 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.” Renner also said he has found it difficult to portray a physically capable character when he himself is “trying to learn to walk again” and had to seriously consider if he wanted to return to acting. “To try to create some truth and then get the audience to bel.