The 2021 Disney+ series Hawkeye seemed to have everything going for it: A star-packed cast led by Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld, stellar reviews from both critics and audiences, and an official place in the vaunted MCU. So why didn’t we ever see a second season?
It turns out it wasn’t for a lack of trying, at least not on Disney’s part. But did they try hard enough? If you’re asking Renner, the answer would seem to be a resounding “no.”
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In an interview with High Performance, Renner said that he was asked to make a second season of the series—but for “half the money” he made to make Season 1. Which understandably didn’t sit well with The Avengers star.
“I’m like, ‘Wow. It’s going to take me twice the amount of work for half the amount of money,’” Renner explained. “So eight months of my time, essentially, to do it for half the amount.”
Renner was perplexed, and began to think that his near-fatal 2023 snow plow accident—which left the two-time Oscar nominee with more than 30 broken bones, a collapsed lung, and approximately one year of recovery time—might have had something to do with the lowball offer.
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“I’m like, ‘I’m sorry. Why? Did you think I’m only half the Jeremy because I got ran over?,’” he wondered aloud in the interview. “Maybe that’s why you want to pay me half of what I made on the first season?”
Renner went on to clarify that the disrespectful offer wasn’t coming from Marvel directly, nor was it really even Disney’s stance. “It’s just the penny pinchers,” Renner said.
Renner was very clear in his answer: “I told them to go fly a kite,” he said.
The actor said the “insult offer” saddened him. As he says in the above video: “I still love the character; I’d still love to do it. But I had to defend myself.”
“I didn’t ask for any more money, mind you,” Renner added. “Just pay me what I made the first season. So it’s all disheartening that that didn’t happen, but that’s fine. I’m happy to let that go, because my body’s probably thanking me, time and time again, that I’m not doing it right now.”
Still, Renner doesn’t seem to be giving up all hope that they can come to an agreement—at least not yet. “But we’ll see,” he concluded.
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Author: Jennifer M. Wood