Jeremy Renner turned down Disney's "insult offer" for a Hawkeye season 2

Renner was talking to High Performance when he revealed that Marvel had approached him to do another season of Hawkeye… at half of what he was paid for the first one. Here’s Renner, running the math: “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.” While emphasizing that he doesn’t blame anyone he’s worked with at Marvel for any of this—”It’s just the penny pinchers, the accountants”—he still sounds pretty genuinely pissed off at the “insult offer.” “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.’”

Renner—whose post-accident resumé has mostly been taken up with Mayor Of Kingstown, and writing a memoir, My Next Breath, that’s out this week—goes on to note that he wasn’t asking for anything except what he got paid for the show’s first season. “Sadly, I still love the character,” he adds, calling the situation “disheartening.” “I’d still love to do it, but I had to defend myself.”

[via Variety]