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Renner Takes It All

A warning to those attempting to chart Jeremy Renner’s advancement: there’s a serious risk of whiplash ahead. Staying under the radar with a modest career for over a decade, the American actor has suddenly become the talk of Tinseltown, receiving two Oscar nominations in as many years.

Roe McDermott, 08 Dec 2011

From CSI to M:I4, Jeremy Renner has come a long way. Having enjoyed relative anonymity for the first decade of his career, featuring appearances on Angel and CSI, the American actor shot to stardom with his Oscar-nominated roles in The Town and The Hurt Locker.

There’s nothing like some quality time in the presence of Tom Cruise to keep your ego in check. Renner may have made physically demanding roles his speciality in S.W.A.T, 28 Weeks Later and now Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol – but he’s still the new kid on the block. The actor admits that his resumé pales in comparison to his co-star Tom Cruise, who (literally, in most of his films) runs away with the title of this generation’s Action Man.

“Yeah – he’s tough to keep up with!” Renner laughs. “He’s a pretty amazing human being. He never seems to stop. He has no fear. We’re very similar in that way, but he’s got a lot more energy!”

So much so, in fact, that Renner found it quite difficult to pin the M:I4 actor down for even a few moments, let alone for a leisurely trade of action movie war-stories.

“I loved to just catch him, just to box him in a corner once in a while because he’s always doing something! He’s either working on the script or talking to a director and I just wanted to try to grab him once in a while between shots so I could talk to him about past movies he’s done, like Rain Man or all these really great movies. He’s just a plethora of information – if you can catch him! But he’s still so enthusiastic. He genuinely loves everything about his work. He’s a cinephile, in lots of ways, he never really studied as an actor, he just went sort of on his instincts. He’s a great observer and I think that’s what makes him a really fantastic actor.”

Renner’s fascination with Cruise’s more dramatic roles is indicative of his passion for complex, nuanced performances – a passion that was well in evidence in his volcanic turns in both The Town and The Hurt Locker, which earned him Academy Award nominations. So in many ways his more stunt-focused role in Ghost Protocol seems like an odd progression, as it means transitioning from a serious character actor into a by-the-book action figure.



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