Jeremy Renner: "No romantic comedies"
Jeremy Renner applies for his Oscar nomination for "Hurt Locker" as one of the most interesting and talented Hollywood actors. In 2012, he made his breakthrough in three commercially very successful blockbusters: Tom Cruise in the fourth installment of "Mission Impossible," superhero Hawkeye in "Avengers," and Matt Damon's successor in the "Bourne Legacy." Now his new movie "Hänsel und Gretel: Hexenjäger" starts. Yes, it is about the fairy tale of the same name. With one difference: Hansel and Gretel are now adults - and very bad to talk about evil witches.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde.com: A "Hansel and Gretel are grown up" movie is an unusual choice for an Oscar-nominated actor. What interested you in the project?Jeremy Renner: When I got the first version of the script, I immediately thought: Hansel and Gretel, many years later, that sounds like it could be fun. And it has! Babelsberg, where we filmed, was like a Disneyland for adults, a kind of theme park with witches, trolls, horses and ... body parts. ChroniquesDuVasteMonde.com: Lots of fun, you supposedly did your own stunts yourself?Jeremy Renner: Yeah, most of the time I do the stunts myself. Only when they're too dangerous or too little time does it make a stuntman. ChroniquesDuVasteMonde.com: Have you ever been hurt?Jeremy Renner: Yes, again and again. Usually I hurt myself with the dumbest things, not with something glamorous. In this movie, the most painful thing was to run banal through the forest. Falling down there is hard.ChroniquesDuVasteMonde.com: Honestly, we liked you best as a character actor in "Hurt Locker" so far. Lately, however, you are only occupied in blockbusters as an action hero. Was that your plan?
Jeremy Renner: No, that just happened. But in the near future, I'm back in different roles, like watching a movie with David O. Russell, the director of Silver Linings. This is not an action movie.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde.com: And a completely different genre? Will we maybe see you in a romantic comedy?
Jeremy Renner: I do not think I want to see myself in a romantic comedy. (laughs) I do not want to move too far away from what I think, what people want to see about me. A drama, a tragedy, yes. But comedies make other people better. I like to play broken heroes. Even Hansel is kind of a broken hero.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde.com: What do you do when you're not acting?
Jeremy Renner: I'm building a house, I have a few dogs ... but for two years I've been working seven days a week.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde.com: Do you even come here to occasionally watch movies? Do you have a favorite movie?
Jeremy Renner: Sure, there's a list of about 20 films that I can watch again and again.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde.com: For example?
Jeremy Renner: The "Jungle Book". I love the music.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde.com: You are considered very cautious about your privacy. How do you cope with being famous now and being asked about it all the time?
Jeremy Renner: I'm just not talking about my private life. I understand in a way that people want to know something like that, but - bad luck for them.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde.com: But there's a constant speculation about your private life.
Jeremy Renner: Yes, that's right. I like talking about what I do for a living. I love the film business, I love that I can act and earn money. But I find it very silly, that spread on the Internet and these magazines, who could have touched when and why. I live in Los Angeles, but I think not for long. I just do not like the media circus.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde.com: Speaking of Success: Is it true that at the beginning of their career, they earned so little money that they could not even pay their electricity bills and were in the dark?
Jeremy Renner: Yes, that has happened again and again. Even if I just had work. My first movie was only 14 days old, and I got $ 50 a day.
