Jeremy Renner Says Disney Offered Him Half His Hawkeye Wage for Season 2

If any recent Disney+ Marvel show seemed poised to get a second season, it was Hawkeye. It starred one of the original Avengers, played by Jeremy Renner; set up a new, younger version of the hero in Hailee Steinfeld’s Kate Bishop; and told a story featuring characters that have since come back in other places like Kingpin, Yelena, Echo, and others. Well, according to Renner he was asked to do a second season, but was only offered half of what he made for the first season, so he turned it down. “They asked me to do a season two, and they offered me half the money,” Renner said on the High Performance podcast. “I’m like, ‘Well, it’s going to take me twice the amount of work for half the amount of money, and eight months of my time, essentially, to do it for half the amount.'” “I’m like, ‘I’m sorry? Why? Did you think I’m only half the Jeremy because I got ran over? Maybe that’s why you want to pay me half of what I made on the first season,'” he continued, referring to his 2023 acciden ... Read full article.