Jeremy Renner "ready" to return to acting one year after snowplow accident

On New Year's Day, 2023, Marvel star Jeremy Renner suffered blunt chest trauma and 30 broken bones after getting hit and run over by his snowplow. After a hospital stay, he returned home to recover. Ten weeks later he was walking with a cane. Now he's ready to return to work.

“I think I’m ready, and I think I’m strong enough,” Renner told Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen on CNN’s New Years Eve broadcast. “I literally go back in a week.”

Renner will likely "go back" to Mayor of Kingstown, the Paramount+ drama where he plays the mayor of a fictional Michigan town with a prison that supports the town's economy. Created by Taylor "Yellowstone" Sheridan, Mayor of Kingstown has been a hit and the producers will surely be happy to have Renner back.

Renner is also releasing new music, including the song "Wait," which has a video costaring his 10-year-old daughter Ava. “Reason number One for my recovery is her. I asked her to ‘wait for me’ when I first saw her January 14 as I arrived home,” Renner wrote on Instagram. “As I got better, she got better, less afraid. There is simply no better motivator to recover than to heal your family and friends…. With gratitude always, thank you all for your love and support this last full year. I needed every ounce of goodwill and prayer.”

I'm not gonna lie: I had no idea Renner produced music. But it's true: there's a music video and everything:

Renner's new EP, Love And Titanium, drops on January 19. It's good to see him make what looks like a full recovery.

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