Miraculously, Jeremy Renner is on his feet. In his first live television appearance since the devastating snowplow accident that left him with over 30 broken bones in his body, Renner appeared as a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, walking onstage with the help of a cane.
Renner seemed positively thrilled to be mobile again as he walked over to host Jimmy Kimmel, gave him a hug, danced around a bit, and eventually sat in his chair—but not before doing a few high kicks from his seat. “If there was any question as to who the toughest Avenger was, that’s settled now,” said Kimmel as the audience roared. “Yeah, it’s Scarlett Johansson,” the Marvel star quipped back.
Renner than shared the details of his New Year’s Day snow plow accident, when the two-time Oscar nominee was run over be a seven-ton Piston Sno-Bully after he tried to stop the machine from running over his 27-year-old nephew, Alexander Fries. “I got eaten up under the tracks,” said Renner. “That was a very bad way to start the year.”
According to Renner, he broke “35 or so” bones in the accident. “We kept discovering them as we were going along, because it went from critical order of, you know, priority of what I was going to die from or not,” he said. “And then, you know, six weeks later, finding another break and another break and another break.” Kimmel quipped that Renner was approaching “Evel Knievel territory” in terms of the amount of injuries he sustained.
“It’s a giant metal cookie roller, and it just missed every vertebrae, right?” said Renner, explaining his relative good fortune. “It didn’t hit any organs. My brain didn’t swell. My eye did pop out, so that’s weird. But I got very lucky that none of the organs got messed up.”
Renner than told stories from his multiple ICU stays, telling Kimmel that he “hated his outfit” while in the hospital. He shared that he didn’t really understand the severity of his injuries until some of his Avengers pals, like Chris Evans and Anthony Mackie, came to visit him. “They were terrible actors,” he said. “They couldn’t hind the fact that I looked awful.” Renner also shouted out Paul Rudd, who stopped by the hospital multiple times to visit him. Not only did Rudd visit Renner, but he also made Renner a fake Cameo, which Renner played on the show.
“Hey, Jerry. I hear you’re a little banged up. Got in a fight with a snow blower?” says Rudd in the video, nailing the medium’s impersonal nature. “Anyway, I just wanted to send this video. It’s really from the heart and hope you’re feeling better. Sounds like you are ― apparently you’re a pretty tough guy. Maybe I’ll get to meet you someday…Take is easy for awhile and next time maybe let the snow melt. Feel better, Jerry.”
Chris Murphy
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