Jeremy Renner On Robert Downey Jr Return, Avengers Doomsday, Recovery, Parenting, & More

hi Jeremy how are you I'm good how you doing I'm doing well thanks so much for taking the time and I'm so excited to talk to you today I can't believe uh back to school is right around the corner um so what are some of the Traditions the routines that you and your daughter have when it comes to back to school well we're changing schools this year she graduated from fifth grade so we're going into middle school so I don't know what the Traditions are going to be yet you know we're finding now there's bus stops and all these different things uh we're trying to figure out um just as much as she is what's going to be happening for this new school and all this new things and with that we're actually really excited for for the school the Reas I remember during the school and the uh the lunchroom and they have like a chef they got this whole thing it's pretty pretty amazing not how I grew up not the schools I went to they have got this good food um so I'm actually really excited um because there is there is that that I don't have to worry I usually have to prepare all the meals schools like going to school get her get her school B pick her up that kind of stuff is a little bit different now because they do have really great um like chefs and all these great food at the school so I don't have to prepare all these meals anymore in the morning which actually is going to be great I used to love doing it but like now it's after you know so many years it gets a little old uh and also to try to keep it you also to keep it interesting I don't know everybody has a kid knows this how many you're making so many dang meals in the morning and then a snack for him and lunch it's like oh my goodness it's like it's just it's it's Overkill there's if there's what is 15 20 meals you got to make it a in a week and it's like I'm not that creative so I'm really happy this new school is going to have um going to take care of that for us that's great that sounds wonderful yeah I'm like a short order cook over here it's like a you making a million different things but I know that breakfast is very important and you have partnered with silk and you've had this long-standing partnership so tell me why this is so important why plant-based food is so important in your lifestyle as well too yeah this it's because it was a just a corner with with silk is already a natural sort of match because I've been using it um in my recovery I had issues with with chewing a lot of lot of breaks in my face and jaw and stuff but I could still drink and I had to get my nutrients I have these protein shakes and and I had to get supplements and things like that put into uh to all my shakes and then it became less medicated sort of shakes and then just sort of regular nice nice protein shakes in the morning just protein and creatine and and uh some fresh fruit and my and then the silk also has a uh an almond milk that's it's a protein one so I got extra protein with that so my the natural sort of uh step was working with them we did a Super Bowl commercial which was really really cool I got to do that with my daughter on the anniversary of the accident which is just amazing um I remember being with my daughter on set and I said look how far we've come girl one year what we're doing we're doing a Super Bowl commercial commercial together andil and uh pretty pretty awesome and then we teamed up for the uh the camp um that we did for the camp the renovation Camp um Foundation I have for uh at risk and Foster Youth and uh it was amazing and they we had nutritionist there teaching kids about um sort of the good things to put in your body essentially and um sometimes we have to work harder for to get good things um lot a lot of times it's it's easy to get the the junk food I think we all know that um but uh it's a the food food is our medicine right it's important to put good things in our body and uh and it tastes good man so I love yeah yeah no I think that is so fantastic yes good food in your body that tastes good what can you that is the best thing um I know that you said your daughter she's going to a new school she's getting older how has your parenting style changed as she gets older and are do you become emotional as uh you know these different stages of childhood kind of develop I don't know it skipped and flipped for a minute because the accident really kind of propelled us into a very adult um relationship that is she's an 11-year-old and um so it's been uh wonderfully and I feel like I'm just her her a manager or a uh a bouncer or I don't know I I feel like I my roles are changing different hats now I used to be like a caregiver nurturer the Entertainer the chef the provider the chauffeur always all these things now I feel like I just kind to have to be around and make sure she doesn't do bad stuff it's very important I know you have a few more years I know you have a few more years until she starts dating and things like that are you going to be the dad that's like intimidating uh the boys and things like that are they going to be scared to come and meet Hawkeye uh I I don't know probably I think my daughter is is probably scarier than I am for sure she has she has um my resting face and then also her grandma my uh my mom's resting face so I think she's going to scare away the the the fatee hearted people and those that stick around and probably VR with me I love that so much you know you said recently that you know we can only control our perspective in life which I think is you know so important how would you say that your perspective as a father may have changed in the past few years um I don't know if it's changed a lot it's like I said it's kind of been shoved in propelled into a different sort of relationship just more just by nature of her age sure um not the accent was just sort of kind of was a springboard into that into this age and this growth and this maturity of this maturing young little creature is now flowering into a woman and so I just have to kind of you know hang on and and not before I was leading the charge you know I would lead every opportunity lead every perspective teach my kid how to find perspective all these things right so I'm just now I had to take the back seat because I was on my back for for months and months on and she was nurturing me and parenting not parenting me but like you know nurturing me right so it just kind it's just kind of been a natural progression to like I kind of follow her lead on a a lot of things I have certain parameters for her and I'm and I stick to these parameters and but with anything within that she can kind of do whatever she wants and I encourage her to explore and I I feel like more there's a por of a partnership as as as this 11-year-old flourishes and and grows into her own person um I'm just a partner in this and I'm I'm there to be with her uh throughout every every step I love that it seems like you know in result from the accident it's obviously it was a beautiful relationship before this but it's turned into something really magical it seems like yeah yeah it could have been something really you know life ruining you know but it's uh it was a really wonderful day that um we got through and um and every day after that um it's I think she's been forced a a wonderful grounding rod for her for her rest of her life she has something to that really will always keep her grounded um and have a great appreciation for our next breath and our next step and um how fortunate we are for everything that we have definitely does she think you're a cool dad does she have a favorite project of yours uh I know well yeah I think so she I think a lot of people knew what I did for living well before she did so she kind of feels a little duped in the thing but she always knows me as Dad and I always be dad uh I think her f one of her favorite moments in life she she says was um being able to go on the red carpet with all the family for the Hawkeye series um that was a really really because she was part of that she was part of the filming of it and she saw a lot of that and she was of that age where she can kind of watch that thing now um all the shows and stuff like that prior to that I are not really kid-friendly typically so um but yeah she knows me as Dad and and I'm always be dad um I don't know if I'm cool because of I'm an actor I think uh it's the opposite because every all her friends think it's cool she isn't want to think that so it totally that happens um how would you how would you describe your relationship now with health self-care Fitness how would you describe your relationship with that now well it's it's kind of had to be my number one thing you know before it was my daughter or was somebody else or taking care of somebody else and I really had to relearn that you know you know like if the The Mask come down on a plane right you want to put this on put it on your kid first right that's the Instinct as a parent and you have to put yours on first then so then you can then take care of others right that's it's just a struggle struggle struggle for me for so many years and getting crushed you know really drilled it into me for sure that I really have to the better I take care of myself is the the more effective I am at taking care of so many others and that allows me and tricks my mind into putting the mask on First and with that you know there's I find a lot I got better faster I I I have a lot more Health and Wellness in my life my my focus and drive is um there there's long life longevity that comes from taking in the recovery a lot of things I do in my recovery are things that ultimately help help you for you know longer stronger life and um it has it has to be part of my life for for the rest of my life so and and I'm okay with that nothing wrong with that yeah nothing wrong with that definitely congratul on a wonderful season of the mar Kingstown I know the finale is right around the corner I mean I know you can't tell me what's going to happen is there anything that you can tease about it um you know and you know so many people are so obsessed with the relationship that Mike has with Iris what can you kind of tease maybe that'll happen going forward yeah yeah know it's going to be one more one more episode and it's amazing it's a there's a lot going on these last two episodes there's a lot lot going on um it's going to I don't know if if it ends well but it certainly ends oh yeah a lot goes on it's it's uh it's exciting it's been a great season and um I can tell you that we are pro definitely doing another season for sure I think we after this season we had a really good appetite for how we left it and um for sure there's got to be another one around the corner it's just how and when you know definitely in your opinion is Mike really smart or does he get really lucky I think uh he's he puts himself in positions to win can you do you think that there's there will ever be a relationship between Mike and Iris I know people are very obsessed with this uh relationship what's kind of your take on it any possibility for a romance I think I think oh the the Romantic side of it I think that that sort of negates sort of the the real relations of or the purity of the relation um they asked about write writing that in and like I just I just thought it it goes against the the purity of Mike and the and and that and that relationship I you can still have love for people right you can still like take care of them when and look after them doesn't mean you have to hook up right that's very true that is very true and then obviously there was big um Marvel news over the weekend with Robert Downey J how about that I know your friends were you holding on to this secret for a while or I had no idea I had no idea this this son of a didn't say anything to me and we're on we're good friends like he's not anybody on the you have Avenger family chat right the origal six and uh said no not a pee so I I got online and you know I started blowing up his phone like what's going on you hiding this from us the whole long so I don't know yeah I guess is uh that's exciting news man I'm really really excited about it yeah and I know people were excited I know you posted a couple um of the forthcoming Avenger movies the U you know the logos does that I know you're not going to tell me but this the seemingly signal maybe a return yeah you know I I think I think I think there's asked out for it's a lot of people to sort of aggregate I think it's a a huge undertaking it's and I think you got Downey back in the mix you got the rooster Brothers back in the mix he always got feige and Marvel I think um this is a direction of where where Marvel's GNA G to do well it seems um the Avenger movies have always always been really fan favorites and there's so many wonderful characters in them I think it's going to be challenging to to get everybody together I think they're going to probably have to piece it together like week by week kind of thing just people schedules it's a lot of there's a lot of people I mean yeah it's a lot of people but I'm excited about I think uh we'll see if uh yeah I think I think we're I think we'll probably be doing it we'll have to figure it out it's all it's all brand new it all just happened right they just made an announcement so I guess we got to start figuring it all out all the pieces have to fall back into place and then finally circling it back um what would you say is your favorite thing that you and your daughter like to do together oh we uh like this morning we we make breakfast together you know or I I help her teach her to make breakfast so I don't always have to do it for her um I try to get her like you know on my health and health and some Wellness sort of stuff and she'll eats like super green gummies and she'll try certain things right but I always make my my Silk protein shakes right I'm always doing that that's always how I because I have to do a lot of protein um more than most and um yeah she gets you but she'll do her pancakes or Crepes Crepes is now a new thing because we're here in Europe and uh so she's really digging on on making some CP so we like we like to do uh like sort of like I'm home a lot anyway so we do like home body stuff and that's she's always dancing around like a little ballerina you know while doing whatever we can