Does the headline look a little too Captain Obvious? Sure. I mean, we remember Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye for a lot of reasons! — Disney+’s Hawkeye and Echo series, The Avengers, Thor. Like an angel perched atop with a bow and arrow, Hawkeye seemed to transcend humanity without superpowers — without a shield, or hammer, or atomic heart to keep him alive.
But, we have to be completely vulnerable and honest with you folks…. This isn’t about Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye on the silver or small screen. Rather this is about Renner as the great Hawkeye beyond that.
For the first time, we got an inside look at the harrowing experience he went through regarding the Sno-Cat accident that nearly ended his life. But instead of fearing the worst, we look into his words and reveal the very best when Jimmy Fallon, host of The Tonight Show, asked him if he had panicked when the Sno-Cat crushed him. Renner responded with this:
“No, You Can’t. You Die Then.” Jeremy Renner Said.
Let that sink in. You simply die. That’s what he said. You could hear a pin drop in the audience during the interview. It was almost like it’s not the physical affliction, the blood, or the destruction to your body that kills you.
Instead you kill you. Your despair murders you. Your lack of faith in yourself ends you. It blows minds, doesn’t it?
Jeremy Renner really brought it out in full force for the viewers on The Tonight Show, getting raw and real with his experience as he was fully aware of his broken ribs, the eyeball hanging out of his skull, and his legs twisted into pretzels. Yet the only thing he forced himself to think of was….
I’ll worry about that later, because I got to worry about breathing first.
It really pans out on the scenario to make you realize your focus shouldn’t be on what has happened to you. Rather, a true hero focuses on what needs to be done first —
Breathe. Survive. Live.
The afflictions to your body? — They’re nothing but distractions.
He followed that up, of course, with heavy words on the power of goodness and love —
“To Receive That Much Love Is Also, I Think, a Very Difficult Thing for Anybody to Do.”
He even admitted to being terrible about it. We all join that club with full subscriptions into how sucky we are at it. But here’s why:
It’s not that we don’t want to accept it. We do. No doubt Jeremy Renner does.
Rather, in this world, the very small windows we have to receive that kind of love are very few and far between, not because people don’t care, but because realistically we just aren’t able to experience or appreciate it in that short amount of time — and are, therefore, not terribly prepared for it.
Certainly travesty welcomes the chance for humanity to come together. Renner spoke of how the cast of The Avengers, Anthony Mackie AKA The Falcon/Captain America being one of the first to visit him, paid homage after he woke up off of life support. It was the respect, the hope, the care, the worry, the faith that kept him awake. And thousands upon thousands more utterly showered him with more love and support.
What’s scary was how it felt like it was sort of like this ‘wake’ to him, though. Yet Jeremy Renner felt fine when compared to the nightmare itself. It was a revelation in the sense that not only did he survive, he was going to press on not just because of his own will, but by the will of those who loved him.
It’s a powerful message at how liberating, exhilarating, maybe even scary it is to feel that. To understand that. And, yes, for even Jeremy Renner to accept it.
And Once You Accept That, You Just Never Have Another “Bad Day” In Your Life!
It gives new meaning to the old adage: “What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.” No doubt a hero’s always tested, stretched to the limit — and that’s where we see the true strength revealed. He was frank about it with Jimmy, saying “I won’t have a bad day for the rest of my life,” that the gift is “it’s impossible.”
It makes you wonder that as Hawkeye, you tend to worry about losing all your arrows. Yet there’s one arrow he would never lose no matter how many times he’ll shoot it — surviving is the bull’s eye he always wanted to hit. When he came out stronger? — That’s the bull’s eye he did hit a thousand times over.
That changes your outlook in life as Jeremy Renner went further in discussing the recovery process:
“If We Get Too Stressed, or If Things Get Too Difficult…. Just Put One Foot Down.”
Jeremy Renner goes on to say “then put another foot down, and then move toward it.”
We get clarity on how we deal with the complexities of life, for sure, like MMA fighters at the cusp of defeat. Sometimes the calamities are gifts in and of themselves. Because it straightens our vision. We see clearer. We know that in any situation — even the smallest ones as he says there might be “insurmountable odds or whatever” — you will overcome them just by taking one step at a time.
It doesn’t matter how many steps. It doesn’t matter how long it would take. All that matters is you make those steps happen.
Total Apex Entertainment Respects Jeremy Renner’s Hustle!
You rock, Hawkeye. We’re glad you’re back at work, too. But can we ask one thing? Let’s just watch Jeremy Renner be a hero on screen from now on. We all can, in fact, check him out in the latest of Mayor of Kingstown.
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