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
I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.
Getting to play with Thor's hammer while he stroked my bow
I had to do a lot of work and allow myself to go places that were a little scary. You know when you play a guy like that it allows you the freedom to explore really weird parts about you. And it's OK. In order to really get it, I've got to allow myself to go there.
It takes a lot out of you to do a stage play, but I'd love to do that. I'd love to continue to do challenging material, whatever shape or form that comes in.
I love music. I do play. It's like mathematics, and it's also emotional. It's nice to play, for no other reason than just to play.
You have a great road map when you play somebody that exists. That's the amazing thing. But then you have great limitations from that road map. It's hard to deviate from it creatively as an actor. It's like, "Oh wait, he'd never do that."
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.
The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.
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.