Jeremy Renner said being crushed by a snowplow last year has changed him a lot.
The 53-year-old actor said he has become a softer person as he feels more ‘sensitive and youthful’ after experiencing the near-fatal accident and going through the long recovery journey.
‘I certainly got a lot of callousness squashed out of me by that machine,’ he said in an interview with People published on Saturday.
The Mayor of Kingstown star also opened up to the outlet about his new Super Bowl commercial for Silk.
Nearly two weeks earlier, he celebrated the first anniversary of returning home from the hospital from said accident.
Jeremy Renner said being crushed by a snowplow last year has changed him a lot. The 53-year-old actor said he has become a softer person as he feels more ‘sensitive and youthful’ after experiencing the near-fatal accident and going through the long recovery journey; seen in September 2023
‘I’ve never been bitter but always maybe a little more callous, a little bit more tough,’ he explained.
‘And I just think those calluses are just scraped off me at this point. Literally, I feel pretty open and wonderfully sensitive and youthful. I’ve been blessed.
Back in January 2023, the Hawkeye alum spent more than two weeks in the hospital as he underwent multiple surgeries and recuperated from his injuries.
He broke over 30 bones when he was run over by a massive 14,000 pound snowplow near his home in Reno, Nevada in Lake Tahoe on New Year’s Day.
He also sustained injuries resulting in a collapsed lung and pierced liver from a shattered rib.
Months later, the Hawkeye alum made his return to the red carpet in April alongside his 10-year-old daughter Ava — whom he credited as ‘reason number one’ for his recovery.
‘Everything kind of just went right,’ he said. ‘Obviously I had a lot of tenacity, I had a lot of support and a lot of reason to recover.
‘That is really special,’ he continued. ‘There’s a lot of people that don’t have as much — those things to live for.’
Back in January 2023, the Hawkeye alum spent more than two weeks in the hospital as he underwent multiple surgeries and recuperated from his injuries. He broke over 30 bones when he was run over by a massive 14,000 pound snowplow near his home in Reno, Nevada in Lake Tahoe on New Year’s Day
Months later, the Hawkeye alum made his return to the red carpet; seen in April 2023
He made his first red carpet appearance since the accident alongside his 10-year-old daughter Ava — whom he credited as ‘ reason number one ‘ for his recovery
To get better, he said he found motivation in other people’s support. While he would not want to go through anything like this again, he said he is grateful to have learned how resilient he is in the face of such a challenge and how many people care about him
He added that he was motivated by other people during his healing journey.
‘It wasn’t about me getting better,’ he explained. ‘It was about healing them. That’s how I got out of my own way.’
On ‘the love and support I got from people’, he said: ‘I just didn’t realize that many people gave a crap about me that much. Maybe Hawkeye, they did, [but] just me as a person, it’s a different thing, you know what I mean?’
While he would not want to go through anything like this again, he said he is grateful to have learned how resilient he is in the face of such a challenge.
‘I know how far I can go,’ he said. ‘That’s pretty useful information — give you parameters of your own life, and it’s pretty hopeful.
‘I overcame a lot, and there’s so many things that could have gone wrong. It all went right, every part of it.
‘From my vision to walking [since] no one said I was going to walk again. I’m like, “Well…”‘
