Jeremy Renner is happy to let a stuntman handle those treacherous Marvel stunts from here on out. In an interview that aired Thursday night on ABC, the 52-year-old actor spoke with Diane Sawyer, and emotionally recounted the near-death snowcat accident on New Year's Day that landed him in the hospital with 30-plus broken bones and required chest surgery.While he's still a ways from being back on set, Renner, who long performed many of his MCU stunts himself, said he's «OK» with letting a stuntman take the reins.«I'm OK with a stunt guy doing it at this point,» Renner admitted. «I'm 52.
It's fine. I've done enough. I'm OK to do more, right? But, I'm Ok. I have no ego. Yeah, go for it. I don't care.»He quipped, «I'll be in my trailer.»Elsewhere in the interview, Renner recalled in excruciating detail the emotion and pain he suffered in the wake of an accident that required him to be airlifted to a hospital and left him in critical condition.
Though footage shared with ABC shows Renner now walking with the help of a cane, he still feels flashes of pain from the extensive surgery he had to undergo, filling him with screws, metal plates and even rubber bands.«I'm also re-learning,» he told Sawyer.
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