Hawkeye Star Jeremy Renner Gives Promising Season 2 Update, After Previously Criticizing Disney 'Penny Pinchers' Over Pay

Marvel prima Jeremy Renner has fixed fans an encouraging update connected his instrumentality arsenic OG Avenger Hawkeye — conscionable months aft criticizing Disney "penny pinchers" and saying helium had turned down a 2nd play of his character's Disney+ spin-off successful a quality implicit pay.

Back successful May, Renner poured acold h2o implicit hopes of a Hawkeye Season 2 by revealing helium had declined to instrumentality for caller episodes, aft being offered "half the money" helium was paid for the show's archetypal tally — thing helium described arsenic an "insult". (Exactly successful what capableness helium would person returned, however, remains unclear.)

But now, speaking to Empire, Renner struck a much optimistic enactment — and said helium was "sure we'll extremity up doing play two, and bash different things". He continued: "And I'm blessed to bash it."

Hawkeye's enjoyable archetypal play saw Renner's retired cause squad up with young leader Kate Bishop, played by Hailee Steinfeld, to instrumentality connected enemies from his pre-Avengers past. The mini-series offered a beardown treble enactment betwixt the 2 characters, amusive cameos from galore different Marvel faces (including Florence Pugh's Yelena and Vincent D'Onofrio's Kingpin), positive beardown Christmas vibes. Among the mixed results of Marvel's galore Disney+ efforts, Hawkeye is mostly agreed to beryllium wrong the precocious tier.

Fans person continued to anticipation for more, though Renner's aboriginal successful the MCU was placed successful uncertainty aft the histrion suffered a superior snowplow mishap successful 2023. It's this incidental which Renner antecedently referenced during his wage quality — saying helium would present beryllium moving adjacent harder portion continuing his recovery.

"I'm like, wow, it's going to instrumentality maine doubly the magnitude of enactment for fractional helium magnitude of wealth — 8 months of my time, essentially, and you bash it for fractional the amount?" Renner said backmost successful May. "I'm like, 'I'm sorry, why? Did you deliberation I'm lone fractional the Jeremy due to the fact that I got ran over?' Is that wherefore privation to wage maine fractional of what I made connected the archetypal season?"

Fast guardant a mates of months, however, and Renner is striking a antithetic tone.

"I'm ever blessed to beryllium successful that world, man. I emotion each those guys, I emotion the character," Renner has present said.

The timing of these remarks is interesting, with filming present underway connected Avengers: Doomsday. While Renner himself is inactive unconfirmed to appear, there's an anticipation from fans that the maestro archer volition popular up astatine immoderate point, arsenic 1 of the fewer archetypal Avengers inactive near standing. Is this 1 of the "other things" that Renner is present referencing?

Steinfeld's Kate Bishop, meanwhile, was past seen successful a post-credits country featured successful The Marvels, wherever the quality is seeing gathering Kamala Khan. While brief, this infinitesimal appeared to beryllium mounting up a squad of younger heroes including Ant-Man's girl Cassie Lang — though Marvel has yet to corroborate immoderate aboriginal task involving those characters.

For now, Marvel's absorption is connected its already-established superhero teams, with the Thunderbolts/New Avengers, Sam Wilson's existent Avengers, and the Fantastic Four acceptable to enactment unneurotic successful Doomsday, which volition besides diagnostic characters from the Fox X-Men universe.

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