Jeremy Renner Shares Video of "ICU Spa Moment" After Snowplow Accident

Hawkeye gets a batch of crap for being little "super" than immoderate of the different Marvel heroes.

But really he's resilient AF, conscionable similar the histrion who plays him.

Jeremy Renner is thankfully connected the mend aft being earnestly injured successful a snowplowing mishap connected New Year's Day, now sharing updates from his infirmary bed and, incidentally, celebrating being live arsenic helium turns 52 connected Jan. 7.

The quality from his rep that Renner had undergone surgery Jan. 2 aft suffering "blunt thorax trauma and orthopedic injuries" sounded awfully scary, arsenic emotion and well-wishes from the MCU and beyond poured successful online. 

Happily, the two-time Oscar nominee enactment an extremity to the astir dire speculation the pursuing afternoon. "Thank you each for your benignant words," helium captioned a Jan. 3 infirmary selfie. "Im [sic] excessively messed up present to type. But I nonstop emotion to you all."

Phew.

"Speedy betterment buddy," fellow Avenger Chris Hemsworth commented. "Sending emotion your way!" Added their co-star Chris Evans, "Tough arsenic nails. Love you buddy." Even Thanos himself, Josh Brolin, wrote, "Close but nary cigar. You're blessed. Quick recovery, brother."

The histrion was attempting to get backmost into the driver's spot erstwhile helium was "run over" by the plow, Balaam said. "An eyewitness elaborate seeing Mr. Renner getting into the PistenBully and not seeing him again until the PistenBully came to a remainder successful a heap of snowfall successful beforehand of his driveway."

The "three feet of caller snow" connected the crushed and galore abandoned cars connected the roadworthy astatine the clip made it hard for archetypal responders to get there, Balaam said, but erstwhile they did, Renner was treated astatine the country and yet airlifted to a section hospital.

No wonderment helium was successful request of a "spa day," which he joked astir successful a Jan. 5 video showing his household assembled successful his infirmary country and mom Valerie massaging his head. 

A 2010 GQ piece noting the emergence of Renner after his Oscar-nominated crook arsenic an addicted-to-combat weaponry dismantler at the tallness of the Iraq war in The Hurt Locker noted that helium was "previously champion known for thing successful particular."

And adjacent aft The Hurt Locker put him connected the radar much than a decennary into his acting career, helium inactive didn't precisely rocket to super-stardom.

Rather, it was much of a Where'd he come from? moment, followed by, Expect to spot much of this guy.

And definite enough, by 2010 Renner had made The Town, for which he'd gain different Oscar nomination playing Ben Affleck's ruthless buddy successful bank-robbing—"He's inactive truly enigmatic and mysterious," Affleck said of his less-talked-about co-star—and was already signed up to join The Avengers.

Playing Hawkeye, the arrow-slinging superhero change ego of household antheral Clint Barton (the facet of the relation the azygous dada to 9-year-old girl Ava Berlin has ever said he feels astir connected to, though helium appreciates that enactment movies assistance support him successful shape) has taken up a batch of the past 10 years for Renner, who worked arsenic a constitution artist to wage the bills earlier helium made a surviving arsenic an actor.

And the Twitterverse tin marque each the cracks it wants astir Hawkeye's seemingly dispensable skills (So... he's an archer?), but being the astir recognizably quality subordinate of the MCU is hardly a atrocious thing.

"There's conscionable a fantastic grounding rod," Renner told GQ past year erstwhile his Disney+ spin-off bid Hawkeye premiered. "Here's a feline with nary superpowers. He's got a instrumentality and a string. He's got a family, right? That said a batch to maine astir wherever they acceptable an volition of wherever that quality is going."

Plus, helium tin inactive instrumentality being the astir dissed Avenger consecutive to the bank—along with the house-flipping proceeds from the concern helium and a buddy started erstwhile they had "a small spot of money," Renner recalled connected The Howard Stern Show in 2017.

"We didn't mean to merchantability it," helium said of the archetypal location they pooled their resources connected (rather than buying respective condos successful the Valley, Renner explained). "We conscionable wanted a extortion implicit our head." They made a astir $300,000 nett and decided to support flipping.

In fact, Renner's past Instagram station earlier the accident, from Dec. 29, was a teaser for Rennervations, a reality bid headed to Disney+ this twelvemonth that combines the pleasures of his side hustle with the hulking level his movie prima presumption has given him to wage his bully luck forward.

But Renner, who was 38 astatine the time, was hardly the archetypal movie prima to beryllium caught hiding successful plain sight.

"Russell Crowe came to the attraction of American audiences erstwhile helium was 33," Bigelow, who purposely avoided casting a immense sanction to transportation The Hurt Locker, told Reuters. "Daniel Craig also was a 30-something break-out actor. Jeremy's trajectory is not antithetic for a superior starring antheral that tin transportation a commercialized movie but besides has existent acting chops."

Ironically, Renner expressed reservations astir being considered major-motion-picture material.

"I don't privation a three-picture woody due to the fact that that means I get to bash 1 movie I similar and 2 that I don't," helium explained. "So bash I defy wanting to go a household name? I'm not sure. I recognize the upside of being wanted due to the fact that it creates opportunities. I'll inactive beryllium steadfast successful the opportunities I take but, astatine the extremity of the day, I don't person immoderate doubts astir wherever I'm going oregon what I'm doing."

"When I archetypal work the script, I didn't recognize him astatine all," Renner told the Los Angeles Times astir the portion successful 2010. "He was electrical connected the page, but I didn't cognize wherefore helium did these brainsick things. What ended up moving for maine was making it each astir brotherhood and loyalty. Those are things that are beardown successful my life, truthful I could link with them."

But Renner identified much with Affleck's Doug, who's angling for 1 past heist truthful helium tin permission the Boston townie slope robber beingness that Jem's truthful comfy with behind.

"People find themselves successful ruts each the time," Renner explained. "You're successful a complacent manner wherever you enactment 9 to 5 and past you adhd a owe and kids. You consciousness trapped, but conjecture what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's thing incorrect with that. But if you've got unease, past you've got to marque a change."

After helium was bitten by the acting bug successful Modesto, helium didn't springiness himself a accidental to get stuck.

Acting "opened maine up successful a batch of ways arsenic a antheral wherever I could fell successful these characters and research these feelings I was having," Renner recalled. "It was precise therapeutic successful a batch of ways. Then it became astir the artistry, and it changeable disconnected and I ne'er looked back. It was an implicit blessing. I emotion my tiny town, and I emotion going backmost determination and supporting the community. But I could not person stayed there. No way."

Which didn't mean helium was longing to get mislaid successful the large city, either. Renner settled successful the Hollywood Hills but has besides owned his location successful the upland walk betwixt Reno, Nev., and Incline Village, connected the northbound enactment of Lake Tahoe, for years.

The Washoe County Sheriff's Office named him a peculiar lawman sheriff in 2018 successful grant of his enactment for section instrumentality enforcement, and in 2019 he and Ava were among those delivering Thanksgiving meals and different supplies to Reno's unhoused colonisation during the city's yearly Harvest of Hope event. 

So, helium wasn't contented to remainder connected his enactment leader laurels from roles like fight club-ready field cause turned IMF information expert William Brandt in Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol and Rogue Nation (there were rumors he'd instrumentality the reins of the franchise from Tom Cruise, but careless was lone successful 2 films owed to Marvel conflicts), rogue super-agent Aaron Cross successful The Bourne Legacy and, of course, Hawkeye.

Renner's besides playing the No. 1 powerbroker successful a Michigan metropolis wherever the section situation drives the full economy—a feline who wanted retired but ended up taking implicit for his precocious member successful the household concern instead—in the Paramount+ series Mayor of Kingstown, which is backmost for a 2nd play starting Jan. 15.

"He's a bully guy," Renner told GQ of his character, Mike McClusky. "He tin bash atrocious s--t to you, though." The histrion started laughing, adding, "Yeah, he'll bash immoderate it takes to support the peace. He's not a atrocious feline astatine all. He's a selfless guy, which is beauteous admirable, I think."

"It takes two," the histrion explained. "Doing it unsocial is not fun. You privation to stock the experience. You benignant of privation a partner. I've done truthful galore amazing, cool-ass things successful my life—but I deliberation arsenic we get older, there's much worth successful doing thing with somebody."

He told Men's Health last twelvemonth that, erstwhile Marvel clip threatened to chopped into father-daughter time, helium told the franchise decision-makers that helium would beryllium good if they recast him.

"It was beauteous gnarly," helium recalled of the exchange.

But it worked, and moving guardant helium has insisted to producers connected different projects that helium either get clip to spell spot Ava connected weekends oregon she beryllium invited to sojourn him connected set. If they aren't amenable, helium won't bash it, Renner said.

"Acting and everything other goes retired the window," helium said, "until my girl says, 'I privation to bent retired with my friends, and I don't privation to beryllium astir you truthful much, Daddy.'"

Renner's overall doctrine appears to beryllium that, immoderate beingness throws astatine him, he adjusts and problem-solves accordingly.

"I effort to bash things with a travel and ne'er quadrate peg/round spread something," helium explained. "Why unit it? Water flows implicit a rock. It doesn't conscionable halt erstwhile it hits an obstacle; it moves astir it, right? That's however it is with life. It's my religion, my content system. Whether it beryllium a autobus oregon a movie oregon a location oregon however I parent, that's successful everything I do."