Jeremy Renner
Jeremy Renner
Jeremy Lee Renner is an American actor and singer. Throughout the 2000s, Renner appeared largely in independent films such as Dahmerand Neo Ned. He also appeared in supporting roles in bigger films such as S.W.A.T.and 28 Weeks Later. He then turned in a much-praised performance in The Town, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth7 January 1971
CityModesto, CA
CountryUnited States of America
There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we're just reimagining the same 12 story plots over and over again - so what makes people keep watching and listening? It's all about the character.
I think that'll always be there for [Clint] Barton, right? You have real life, and then you have fight life. And that's the character that I love now - discovering that in him makes him a very sort of accessible Avenger. That'll always be there, I'm sure. And it certainly plays in this one.
I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.
I think there's a great connection between these two characters for sure. I mean, I don't know if she's coming over for dinner on the Barton ranch...
I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character.
I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.
I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do. I want to skip to work. I don't want to repeat anything. What the future holds, I don't know, but that's what I like. I'll take any risk there is.
Marvel's really smart about continuing the storylines of all the different movies from Ultron into this one and blah to blah to blah - it's pretty seamless. So where we left off in Ultron is definitely picked up in Cap 3 here, pretty smoothly I think.
When you get praise from someone that you really admire it's really surreal.
Yeah there's always something different. He's still limited to what he can do - ya know, no super powers, just a high skill set. But they have a cool thing - this time I learn very quickly... um, bow. 'Cause in the first Avengers he had that short bow that cracks open, and then I can crack and close with a staff. So now I'm a master with a staff apparently. I have to learn that today.
So there's that, and then there's always things you can do with the tips. Except for this, what they call the arrow tips, they'll all be non-lethal cause again we're not trying kill anybody, just sort of take control of the situation. They'll probably throw in a lot of gimmicks with the tips and trick arrows, and things like that. And ya the new, cool...
I'm a simple, simple man.
I guess gritty is the word that you said. But it has a different tone. We're not flying around in different universes - it's a bit more earthy.
I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.