Jeremy Renner Says Disney Offered Him Half His Hawkeye Wage for Season 2

If immoderate caller Disney+ Marvel show seemed poised to get a 2nd season, it was Hawkeye. It starred 1 of the archetypal Avengers, played by Jeremy Renner; set up a new, younger mentation of the hero successful Hailee Steinfeld’s Kate Bishop; and told a communicative featuring characters that have since travel backmost successful different places similar Kingpin, Yelena, Echo, and others.

Well, according to Renner helium was asked to bash a 2nd season, but was lone offered fractional of what helium made for the archetypal season, truthful helium turned it down. “They asked maine to bash a play two, and they offered maine fractional the money,” Renner said connected the High Performance podcast. “I’m like, ‘Well, it’s going to instrumentality maine doubly the magnitude of enactment for fractional the magnitude of money, and 8 months of my time, essentially, to bash it for fractional the amount.'”

“I’m like, ‘I’m sorry? Why? Did you deliberation I’m lone fractional the Jeremy due to the fact that I got ran over? Maybe that’s wherefore you privation to wage maine fractional of what I made connected the archetypal season,'” helium continued, referring to his 2023 mishap wherever helium was tally implicit by a Sno-Cat, suffering adjacent life-ending injuries.

Renner rapidly added that it wasn’t Marvel who did this, but accountants astatine Disney. “This is not Marvel, caput you,” Renner said. “This is like, conscionable Disney, not adjacent truly Disney. It’s conscionable the penny pinchers, the accountants. I told them to spell alert a kite. I mean, conscionable astatine the insult offer. So we didn’t spot oculus to oculus connected it.”

This, if we’re being honest, doesn’t adhd up. Disney is Marvel and accountants who enactment for Disney are representing Marvel. But the implication, it seems, is Renner doesn’t privation to blasted Marvel’s originative people, conscionable the radical who motion their checks.

io9 reached retired to Disney for remark and an insider determination disputed Renner’s claims, but failed to get into specifics. So this is surely conscionable his broadside of the story.

Renner’s hesitance to spot the blasted specifically connected anyone is astir apt besides due to the fact that helium says helium would similar to play Hawkeye successful the future. “Sadly, I inactive emotion the character. I’d inactive emotion to bash it, but I had to support myself,” helium said. “I didn’t inquire for immoderate much money, caput you. Just wage maine what I made the archetypal season. So it’s a small disheartening that that didn’t happen, but that’s fine. I’m blessed to fto that go, due to the fact that my body’s astir apt thanking me, clip and clip again, that I’m not doing it close now. But we’ll see.”

Here’s the clip:

So determination you person it. As it stands now, it surely seems similar Hawkeye play 2 is not presently successful the works. Which is simply a shame. We would’ve loved to spot Renner proceed to mentor Kate Bishop arsenic she rises the ranks of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But possibly things volition travel unneurotic successful the future.

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