With a new movie and a new production company, the Marvel Studios actor is managing to balance blockbuster stardom with more serious acting gigs.
Jeremy Renner in Kill The Messenger.
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Jeremy Renner isn't planning on playing a superhero forever.
"I don't want to be 55 years old and in tights, for god's sake," the actor, who plays Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, told BuzzFeed News with a laugh. "But in the next four years, it's nice to know that I might be slinging an arrow here and there."
The intriguingly frank 43-year-old is currently balancing a few giant film franchises, not all of them involving hosiery. In addition to playing Marvel's master archer, who will next be seen in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Renner's reprising his role as field agent-turned-analyst William Brandt in Mission: Impossible 5, and he is also set to return as Aaron Cross in the follow-up to The Bourne Legacy.
Appearing in some of the biggest movies around adds up to a gratifying moment in the spotlight for a talented actor who toiled for years in television pilots and acclaimed but underseen movies, from 2002's Dahmer to 2007's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Since his unmissable breakout turn as an adrenaline-addicted bomb disposal expert in Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar-winning 2008 film The Hurt Locker, which nabbed him his first of two Academy Award nominations, Renner's been very canny about moving between action tentpoles and smaller features like American Hustle and The Immigrant. That balance is important to the busy actor, who's squeezed in a few days in New York to do press for his latest movie Kill the Messenger, based on the true story of investigative reporter Gary Webb.
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