Los Angeles, May 2 || Hollywood star Jeremy Renner declined doing “Hawkeye 2” because he was offered lower pay after his fatal snow plough accident.
Renner got candid about the salary for a potential follow-up to Marvel’s Hawkeye. In an excerpt posted to TikTok from an interview that Renner gave to the High Performance app, the actor claimed he was offered “half” of his salary from the first season of the Disney+ series in which he starred as the titular character.
“They asked me to do season 2, and they offered me half the money,” the 54-year-old said, reports people.com.
“I’m like, ‘It’s going to take me twice the amount of work for half the amount of money, and eight months of my time, essentially, to do it for half the amount.’ ”
Hawkeye, starring Renner as his Avengers character Clint Barton and Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop, aired in 2021. A follow-up season has remained unconfirmed.
One reason he may have been offered less money, joked Renner in the clip, was his near-fatal snowmobile accident on New Year's Day 2023.