It’s been a minute since we’ve seen Jeremy Renner enjoying Clint Barton, a.okay.a. Hawkeye, within the MCU, and there’s nonetheless no phrase on if he’ll reprise the position in upcoming Marvel motion pictures and/or upcoming Marvel TV exhibits. To be truthful, a lot of this has to do with how Renner was badly injured in a snowplow accident firstly of 2023, leading to an extended recuperation course of. Nevertheless, apparently he had additionally been approached to do Hawkeye Season 2, however turned it down for a totally comprehensible
Because the actor specified by an interview with Excessive Efficiency, this determination didn’t stem from a scarcity of curiosity in reprising the archer he’s been enjoying stretching again to 2011’s Thor. Somewhat, if he’d agreed to return for one more season of Hawkeye, which premiered late 2021, he would have been taking a large pay reduce. As Renner defined:
They requested me to do Season 2, and so they provided me half the cash. And I’m like, ‘Properly, it’s going to take me twice the quantity of labor for half the sum of money, and eight months of my time, primarily, to do it for half the quantity.’ I’m like, ‘I’m sorry? Why? Did you suppose I’m solely half the Jeremy as a result of I obtained ran over? That’s why you need to pay me half of what I made on the primary season?’
Yeah, I can perceive why Jeremy Renner would have an issue with this. To be clear, it wasn’t outright said that his pay would have been reduce due to his accident; technically we don’t have an official motive. Renner additionally clarified that he doesn’t maintain any in poor health will in direction of the folks at Marvel Studios and “not even actually Disney,” however extra particularly on the Mouse Home’s accountants, who he described as “penny pinchers.”
Extra to come back…