Jeremy Renner has revealed he is doing the final edit on his book about lessons learned through his near fatal snowplow accident, in a conversation at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival.
“It will be two years in January, and I am very proud to overcome a great adversity in my life,” Renner said of the accident in which he was crushed by his own snow-removal tractor on New Year’s Day 2023 at his home in Nevada.
“I’m forever grateful for all the love and support I’ve gotten from the people all around the world, that I never knew existed that propel me to get better. It’s the only thing that really defines me in my life at this point,” he continued.
“I don’t look at it as a limitation even though I am 25% titanium, so f**k Iron Man, I’m Titanium Man… I’m writing a book about it now. This whole trip, I’ve been doing the final edit on it, so it’s kind of all kind of fresh in my brain, because I try to push it away a lot of times.
“There so many wonderful gifts that come from being tested to your limits of death, because I did die, and I came back, and I came back for a reason. It had nothing to do with my, if was my choice, I’d have rather have stayed, but I came back, and I’m glad I’m back. The freedoms and the gifts bestowed on to me because of the great tests, you know, of crushing 38 bones, eye comes out, the terrible things that happen in a crushing injury. That’s said nothing at the end of it, I can see that now coming out of it”
The Hurt Locker, Avengers: Endgame and Hawkeye star, who is in Saudi Arabia for the first time, praised the country’s progress in building a film industry in the wake of the lifting of its 35-year cinema in 2017.
“It’s pretty exciting. It on the the precipice of a big, big shift here. I think there’s supposed to be 2,500 screens in the next five years, by 2030, that’s huge, huge,” he said.
“If any country can kind of do that, move that fast, move the needle that fast. I think it’s Saudi Arabia,” he added, to applause from the mainly local crowd in the room. “I’m pretty excited to see what happens here.”
Although Renner is visiting Saudi Arabia for the first time, he is no stranger to the Middle East, having shot The Hurt Locker in Jordan and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol in the United Arab Emirates.
He is is among a raft of stars attending the event’s fourth edition alongside Michael Mann, Michael Douglas, Michelle Yeoh, Catherine Zeta–Jones, Eva Longoria, Andrew Garfield, Cynthia Erivo and Sarah Jessica Parker.
This article was published at deadline.com on 2024-12-10 12:14:00
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