Returning to work after the snowplow accident that almost killed him was a huge moment for Jeremy Renner.
The 54-year-old actor was trying to save his nephew, when in a horror accident he got out of the vehicle and ended up being crushed by it. Renner broke over 30 bones, suffered a lacerated liver, collapsed lung and was left in a critical condition in the accident in January 2023.
It’s been a long road to recovery for the Mayor of Kingstown star, who is gearing up for the premiere of the fourth season of the show later this month.
When Renner returned to the crime-thriller set, there was one big promise Hugh Dillon, who plays Ian and is also an executive producer and co-creator of the series, had to make.
“When he came back [on set], I remember I had to promise his mum that we’d take care of him,” he told People.
Dillion explained that Renner was in a really “vulnerable place” when he came back to work, and things got really personal after going to visit and becoming close with his family.
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For Dillon it was about Renner being happy, with so much titanium in his body after the accident, the focus wasn’t getting through the season but helping him move forward.
“My mum would kill Hugh if he did anything wrong,” Renner joked.
Ahead of the premiere of Season 3 of Mayor of Kingstown in June 2024, Renner explained that he was not in a good way when he first went back to set after the accident.
“In the beginning, I think because I hadn’t seen anybody – and these are all people I worked with for two seasons already – I hadn’t really got to talk to anybody. They didn’t know what version of Jeremy would come back,” he told People at the time.
As he settled back into things, he said he “actually kind of needed to be treated with kid gloves” at first.
Renner admitted he had to not only physically lean on people, but emotionally too.
“There’ll be nothing normal or as it was prior to the accident,” he said, accepting that this was his life now and his new normal.
Renner opened up about the horrific accident in his memoir titled My Next Breath, which was released earlier this year.
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