Jeremy Renner’s favourite Jeremy Renner song: “A really proud moment for me”
There are some things we know about Californian actor Jeremy Renner and some that we probably don’t. We know he is a top movie star, Oscar-nominated for films like The Hurt Locker. We know he survived an absolutely horrific accident with a snowplough that would have killed most people. But did we know he has a singing sideline? Not so much.
He does though, and in fact it’s not just singing that Renner has turned his hand (or voice) to, because he can do a bit on drums, guitar and keys too, appearing on several movie soundtracks and releasing two EPs himself, one in 2020 and then another last year called Love and Titanium, which unsurprisingly was inspired by the recovery from his accident.
In case you didn’t know the details of that accident, which occurred when Renner jumped in to prevent his nephew from being hit by the machine, the actor suffered some 38 different broken bones, blunt chest trauma, a collapsed lung, a broken eye socket and had to undergo months of surgeries and physical therapy in the aftermath. It wasn’t great to put it mildly.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, it changed Renner as a person, and he used his music as a tool to aid recovery, especially that 2024 EP. He said on release, “All of the songs on this record are very special to me. ‘Wait’ was a very big one because it connected my daughter and me, and it was proof for me that I would get better, and the healing began from there.”
Adding, “So, having something special, intimate, and beautiful like that with my daughter was a really proud moment for me.”
What is the song ‘Wait’ like? Well, it’s kind of how you might imagine it to be really, a kind of soft-rock country pop affair, the video for which is typically American (ie it has no concept of the words cloying or maudlin) and features possibly the most inappropriate product placement for Lavazza coffee imaginable given it is supposed to be a heartfelt message of love to a daughter who almost lost her father, but hey, got to make that dollar.
Post-accident, Renner has been primarily focusing his acting skills on The Mayor of Kingstown, which is yet another one of those Taylor Sheridan-created shows that this time focuses on a powerful Michigan family of which Renner is the head. The crime thriller has run for four seasons and received mixed reviews.
Renner won’t be one of the many, many actors popping up in Avengers: Doomsday when it hits cinemas next year, however, as he has said the arc for his MCU character Hawkeye is complete for now. But he isn’t worried about being replaced with a generic Hawkeye variant by directors the Russo Brothers in the two final movies either, telling a podcast recently, “If they want to do that, they can go ahead by all means and do that, I’m pretty busy myself.”
Avengers: Doomsday is slated for a mid-December 2026 release; however, work hasn’t begun on the second film, Secret Wars, as yet, and the full cast for that movie hasn’t yet been confirmed, so there’s still a chance Renner sneaks in with a full quiver of arrows to take part. He last appeared as the self-titled character in the mini-series Hawkeye back in 2021.
