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Jeremy Renner Finally Explains The Real Reason He Left The Mission: Impossible Franchise

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Jeremy Renner had a pretty good reason to exit the Mission: Impossible franchise.

“I had to leave that,” the actor told Collider in an interview published on Monday. “I was supposed to do more with them. I love those guys. I love Tom [Cruise] so much. We had so much fun, and I love that character a lot.”

However, he noted that making the films “requires a lot of time away”.

“It’s all in London,” he added. “I had to go be a dad.”

Jeremy had starred as William Brandt in 2011′s Ghost Protocol and 2015′s Rogue Nation amid reports that he might replace Tom Cruise as the Mission: Impossible lead.

But Renner left the action film series before its highest-grossing entry, 2018′s Fallout. Director Christopher McQuarrie said at the time that a scheduling conflict had prevented Jeremy from appearing in the film.

Speaking to Collider, though the actor emphasised that reprising his role “just wasn’t gonna work out then” since he was raising a young child, Ava Berlin Renner.

“Maybe now that my daughter is older that could happen,” Jeremy said. “I’d always jump into a Mission: Impossible anytime and back into Brandt. It’s great.”

Jeremy Renner and Tom Cruise pictured together in 2011
Jeremy Renner and Tom Cruise pictured together in 2011

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The first Mission: Impossible movie was released in 1996, and although it was a hit, later entries turned the franchise into a bona fide box-office behemoth.

Not only has Mission: Impossible raked in billions worldwide, but helped make Tom Cruise perhaps the most famous Hollywood star turned stuntman with his death-defying showstoppers.

Meanwhile, in the years following Rogue Nation, Jeremy would continue to appear as the superhero Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

He proved to be a real-life superhero at the start of 2023 when he reportedly prevented a snowplough from hitting his nephew.

Though the actor nearly died in the incident, he recently told late night host Jimmy Fallon that it taught him some valuable lessons.

“I won’t have a bad day for the rest of my life,” he said. “It’s impossible.”

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Jeremy Renner Sits Down With Diane Sawyer In First Interview Since Near-Death Accident

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The hourlong special, Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview — A Story of Terror, Survival and Triumph, will chronicle both the actor’s recovery and the moment he was pulled under a 14,000-pound snowplow, per The Hollywood Reporter.

“I chose to survive,” Renner tells Sawyer in a two-minute trailer for the interview, which airs next Thursday. “You’re not going to kill me. No way.”

Renner was seriously injured on Jan. 1 while trying to save his nephew from being run over by a malfunctioning Sno-Cat after the actor exited the vehicle without setting an emergency brake, according to an incident report.

Renner told Sawyer he tried to stop the snowplow by stepping on the tracks only to be pinned underneath. He said he was “awake for every moment.”

“I’d do it again,” Renner tells Sawyer in the trailer. “Because it was going right at my nephew.”

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The Marvel actor was airlifted to a local hospital with a punctured lung and 30 broken bones, including an eye socket, eight ribs (broken in 14 places), a right knee, left tibia, clavicle, right shoulder and both ankles, Renner told Sawyer.

The Sawyer special will include some of the 911 recordings capturing his agonising pain after the accident.

“I just perfectly see him in a pool of blood from his head,” Renner’s nephew recalls in the trailer. “I ran up to him. I didn’t think he was alive.”

Renner underwent multiple surgeries and has made enormous strides since then. He returned home on Jan. 16 and has posted on social media about some of his physical therapy regimen, which includes an anti-gravity treadmill.

“Much love and appreciation to you all,” Renner wrote on Instagram on Jan. 21. “These 30 plus broken bones will mend , grow stronger, just like the love and bond with family and friends deepens . Love and blessings to you all.”

“Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview — A Story of Terror, Survival and Triumph” airs April 6 at 10 p.m. EST on ABC and streams on Hulu the next day.

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