Jeremy Renner Slams Disney 'penny Pinchers' For Making Him 'insult Offer' To Reprise Marvel Role

Jeremy Renner is defending himself against an "insult offer" he claims to person received from Disney.

The actor, who played superhero Hawkeye successful respective Marvel projects, said successful a caller question and reply connected nan "High Performance" podcast that nan institution approached him to do a 2nd play of nan Disney+ bid "Hawkeye," but they offered him half nan magnitude he made during nan first season.

"They asked maine to do a play two, and they offered maine half nan money," Renner alleged. "And I'm like, wow. It's going to return maine doubly nan magnitude of activity for half nan magnitude of money. And truthful 8 months of my time, essentially, and I person to do it for half nan amount."

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Jeremy Renner blamed "penny pinchers" astatine Disney for giving him an "insult offer" to do play 2 of "Hawkeye." (Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for The Red Sea International Film Festival)

He continued, "I'm like, ‘Why? ’Cause you deliberation I'm only half nan Jeremy ‘cause I sewage ran over?’", referring to nan Jan. 1, 2023 incident successful which a snowfall plow rolled complete him successful his driveway, astir sidesplitting him.

Renner clarified, "And this is not Marvel, mind you, this is just Disney – not moreover really Disney, it's conscionable nan penny pinchers, nan accountants. I told them to spell alert a kite, I mean conscionable astatine nan reproach offer. So we didn't spot oculus to oculus connected that."

The "Avengers" prima maintained that he still loves nan characteristic and that he would bask reprising nan role, but he insisted he "had to take sides myself."

Jeremy Renner, pictured successful "Hawkeye," has played nan Marvel superhero crossed respective projects. (Chuck Zlotnick / ©Disney+/Marvel Studios / Courtesy Everett Collection)

"I didn't inquire for immoderate much money, mind you," Renner said. "It's conscionable ‘pay maine what I made nan first season.’ So it's a small disheartening that that didn't happen, but that's fine. I'm happy to fto that spell because my body's astir apt thanking me, clip and clip again, that I'm not doing it correct now."

Disney did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment, though nan institution did conflict Renner's claims to The Hollywood Reporter.

"Hawkeye" premiered connected Disney+ successful November 2021. The miniseries ran for six episodes and was mostly well-received. Renner besides played nan characteristic successful respective "Avengers" movies, arsenic good arsenic successful "Captain America: Civil War."

"Avengers: Doomsday," nan adjacent section successful nan celebrated Marvel movie series, is group to merchandise successful May 2026. Renner has not officially been confirmed to beryllium portion of nan formed astatine this time.

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Jeremy Renner said that while it was "disheartening" not to beryllium capable to make a woody pinch Disney, he had to "defend" himself. (Gilbert Flores)

The character is presently promoting his caller book, "My Next Breath," a memoir astir his 2023 near-death experience.

"As I laic connected nan ice, my bosom complaint slowed, and correct there, connected that New Year’s Day, chartless to my daughter, my sisters, my friends, my father, my mother, I conscionable sewage tired," Renner wrote successful nan book, per Us Weekly.  "After astir 30 minutes connected nan ice, of breathing manually for truthful long, an effort akin to doing 10 aliases 20 push-ups per infinitesimal for half an hr … that’s erstwhile I died."

"I died, correct location connected nan driveway to my house."

Jeremy Renner has been unfastened astir his betterment pursuing his January 2023 snowplow accident. (Jeremy Renner/Instagram)

"I cognize I died — successful fact, I’m judge of it," he wrote.

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Renner noted that nan EMTs said his "heart complaint had bottomed retired astatine 18." 

"This was basically dead," Renner, who said he was astatine "an exhilarating peace," wrote. 

Jeremy Renner attends nan World Premiere of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures' "Avengers: Endgame" astatine Los Angeles Convention Center connected April 22, 2019 successful Los Angeles. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)

"When I died, what I felt was energy, a perpetually connected, beautiful and awesome energy," he added. "There was nary time, place, aliases space, and thing to see, isolated from a benignant of electric, two-way imagination made from strands of that inconceivable energy."

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"I could spot my lifetime. I could spot everything each astatine once," he added. "In decease location was nary time, nary clip astatine all, yet it was besides each clip and forever."

Fox News Digital's Christina Dugan Ramirez contributed to this report.