Jeremy Renner Turned Down Hawkeye Season 2 Over Salary 'Insult Offer'

Actor Jeremy Renner revealed that helium turned down a 2nd play of Marvel’s Hawkeye aft receiving “an insult offer” from Disney’s “penny pinchers.”

“They asked maine to bash Season 2, and they offered maine fractional the money. I’m like, ‘Well, it’s going to instrumentality maine doubly the magnitude of enactment for fractional the magnitude of money, and 8 months of my time, essentially, to bash it for fractional the amount,” Renner disclosed during an quality connected High Performance to beforehand his caller book, My Next Breath: A Memoir.

Renner wondered if his near-fatal January 2023 mishap – wherever helium was crushed by his snowfall plow and broke implicit 30 bones, leaving him with 25% titanium successful his assemblage and a precise agelong betterment play – played a origin successful getting low-balled.

“I’m like, ‘I’m sorry? Why? Did you deliberation I’m lone fractional the Jeremy due to the fact that I got ran over? Maybe that’s wherefore you privation to wage maine fractional of what I made connected the archetypal season.'”

Renner made it clear, however, that the entity of his ire is not Marvel Studios oregon adjacent genitor institution Disney per se and that helium would inactive similar to reprise his relation arsenic the bow-slinging Avenger 1 day.

“This is not Marvel, caput you. This is like, conscionable Disney, not adjacent truly Disney. It’s conscionable the penny pinchers, the accountants. I told them to spell alert a kite. I mean, conscionable astatine the insult offer. So we didn’t spot oculus to oculus connected it.”

“I inactive emotion the character. I’d inactive emotion to bash it, but I had to support myself,” Renner continued. “I didn’t inquire for immoderate much money, caput you. Just wage maine what I made the archetypal season. So it’s each disheartening that that didn’t happen, but that’s fine. I’m blessed to fto that go, due to the fact that my body’s astir apt thanking me, clip and clip again, that I’m not doing it close now. But we’ll see.”

Renner’s Hawkeye co-star Florence Pugh reprises her relation arsenic Yelena Belova successful this weekend’s Thunderbolts.

Find retired what Pugh told america astir leaping disconnected the 2nd tallest gathering successful the satellite for the film, however agelong its post-credits country is and besides beryllium definite to work our Thunderbolts review.