The Avengers assemble for one another once they’re in want.
In a dialog with Individuals, celebrating Robert Downey Jr.’s first Oscar win, Jeremy Renner opened up about how his co-star was there for him following his near-death expertise after being run over by a snowplow.
Within the weeks after his horrible accident, he spent a while within the ICU, and he shared that Downey reached out to him continually. “We ended up having actually nice chats on FaceTime like we have been courting or one thing,” Renner recalled.
The Mayor of Kingstown star defined that he was affected by “other-worldly ache,” which Downey helped him with by speaking to him about different issues and taking his thoughts off of what he was feeling. “He’s like, ‘Dude, crucial factor is you look good. I don’t care how you’re feeling, so long as you look good that’s all that issues.’”
Throughout one of many conversations he had together with his good friend on the time, the Oppenheimer star joked that he wanted to get higher shortly as a result of he and his spouse, Susan Downey, have been followers of Mayor of Kingstown and wanted to know what occurred subsequent within the Paramount+ sequence. (It has since begun manufacturing.)
“He’s like, ‘You’ve bought to get again to do Mayor as a result of we have to see what occurs,’” the Hawkeye star mentioned. “His methods are very heartwarming.”
Jon Favreau, who directed the Sherlock Holmes star in 2008’s Iron Man and its sequel, echoed Renner’s sentiments, sharing that Downey is continually reaching out to individuals, “even when he’s not working.”
“He’s nonetheless connecting,” the actor-director mentioned. “He actually retains relationships going, and he’s at all times checking in and at all times retains these channels of communication and people relationships open.”
The Sympathizer star isn’t the one Avenger to come back to their co-star’s aspect in his time of want. The Damage Locker actor beforehand revealed that “all these guys” went to his bedside following the accident and have been with him all through his restoration course of.
On Jan. 1, 2023, information broke that Renner had been in a devastating snowplow accident at his residence in Reno, Nevada. He was run over by a 14,300-pound snowcat whereas making an attempt to cease the machine from hitting his nephew. He broke 30 bones when he was pulled underneath the PistenBully and needed to have his rib cage rebuilt with steel, in addition to steel plates put into in his face and titanium rods in one among his legs.