Jeremy Renner is no longer the same after the accident and loses what he needed most

Jeremy Renner may be lucky to be alive, but admits his life could be forever different after surviving a near-fatal snowplow accident last year.

On 1 January 2023 Racer was involved in a terrible accident when he was run over by a 6.4 ton snow plow machine.

The “Hawkeye” actor was helping a family member pull their car out of the snow after a large amount of snow – estimated to be three feet – fell overnight before he was hit by the out-of-control car.

Incredible, Racer survived the ordeal but had to undergo a mammoth recovery, breaking a total of 38 bones and suffering a collapsed lung and severe chest trauma.

The 53-year-old spoke openly about his health problems resulting from the incident and admitted that he no longer had the energy to devote himself to the filming schedule for The Mayor of Kingstown.

“I just don’t have the energy for it. I don’t have the fuel.” Racer said during an appearance on the podcast “Smartless.” “I have so much fuel to put into this reality, this body, and all this stuff.”

“I can’t just pretend now. Because that would take a lot of time, coming here every day just so I can have a positive thought, so I can make progress, so I can keep growing.”

Jeremy Renner on his return as mayor of Kingstown

Fortunately, Racer has largely made a full recovery and now has a new outlook on life when it comes to seizing moments, which puts his fictional life as an actor into perspective.

“Because I’m supposed to, damn it, write fiction? I’m still trying to live in reality, I’m trying to live. So it was a difficult boundary for me to cross,” Renner added. “It was a big challenge. It was a big, big challenge for me to get over that hurdle.”

“I still struggle with it sometimes, I don’t take it too seriously. I’m playing a role that I can play very well and I know the show very well, so it was easy for me to slip back into it,” he said of his return to acting with Season 3 of “Mayor of Kingstown.”

“But if it had been a very demanding role, I wouldn’t have been able to take it. Not challenging in that sense – because the show is demanding – but it would be like having to play (Jeffrey) Dahmer or something, something that is so far removed from me.”