Once an Avenger, always an Avenger. Jeremy Renner recently took a trip down memory lane when he posted a picture from the sets ofAvengers: Endgame, in which the actor can be seen alongside Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Hemsworth. Both Renner and Hemsworth were sporting their hairdos fromEndgame. The photo was captioned, “Miss these fine gents @chrishemsworth @robertdowneyjr And the rest of the gang!!”
Clearly, the more than two years that have passed since the time thatEndgamewas being made has not dented the bond that has been fostered between Renner and the rest of hisAvengersco-stars. Downey Jr. responded to Renner’s photo with a hug and love emoji. Previously, theAvengers: Endgameactors had gathered publicly last year via streaming to accept the Favorite Movie award at Kids' Choice Awards 2020: Celebrate Together.
Renner’s journey in theMCUwas not always one that he remembered fondly. At the start, the actor only appeared as Hawkeye for a brief cameo in the firstThormovie. Not only did the character never get his own standalone film, but his first full-fledged role in 2012’sThe Avengerssaw Hawkeye hypnotized into becoming Loki’s evil minion. In a previous interview, Renner had admitted playing this version of the character had not been very creatively satisfying.
“At the end of the day, 90% of the movie, I’m not the character I signed on to play. I’m literally in there for two minutes, and then all of a sudden…I prefer the good, because if we go to the evil part, or hypnotized or whatever the heck you want to call it, it’s kind of a vacancy. Not even a bad guy, because there’s not really a consciousness to him. The interesting part was being guilty about the bad things I did do when I was hypnotized. I think he’s already an interesting enough character. To really kind of take away who that character is and just have him be this sort of robot, essentially, and have him be this minion for evil that Loki uses. Again, I could just focus on the task. I was limited, you know what I mean? I was a terminator in a way. So yeah, fun stunts. But is there any sort of emotional content or thought process? No.”
Fortunately, Hawkeye’s arc improved with each successive MCU appearance. He was revealed to be a family man, and a source of support for both Black Widow and Scarlet Witch, as well as a loyal friend to Captain America. Now, Renner is finally getting his own standaloneHawkeyeseries onDisney+, which will see the character dealing with some demons from his past while training a young protege to be the next master archer of the MCU.
HawkeyestarsJeremy Renneras Clint Barton, Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop, Jolt as Pizza Dog/Lucky, Vera Farmiga as Eleanor Bishop, Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, Fra Fee as Kazi, Tony Dalton as Jack Duquesne/Swordsman, Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez/Echo and Zahn McClarnon as William Lopez. The Disney+ series has yet to receive a premiere date.
