Jeremy Renner is a two-time Academy Award-nominated actor in both independent cinema and major blockbusters. Among other accomplishments, he portrayed Jeffrey Dahmer in “Dahmer;” an adrenaline-driven, Iraq-based, bomb disposal expert in the “Hurt Locker,” and a fiercely loyal yet dangerous bank robber in “The Town.” Renner starred in two “Mission: Impossible” movies and “The Bourne Legacy.” He portrayed Clinton Barton, a.k.a. Hawkeye, in the Marvel Cinematic Universal and the Disney series “Hawkeye.” Most recently, he stars in “Mayor of Kingstown” as Mike McLuskey, in which he navigates the world of prison systems and small-town politics.

In his first book, “My Next Breath,” Renner writes an interesting and thought-provoking account of what happened after he was run over by a 14,000-pound snowcat on New Year’s Day in 2023 while trying to save the life of his nephew, Alex, who would otherwise have been doomed to be crushed between the snow blade and the F-150, which sat perpendicular to the out-of-control snowcat only about 10 feet away.

Renner explains that he was nearly killed by “six f-----wheels [Renner frequently uses profanity in his narrative, just as he does in everyday conversations with others], seventy-six steel blades, 14,000 pounds of machine, all ranged against the human body. Skull, jaw, cheekbone, molars: fibula, tibia, lungs, eye sockets, cranium, pelvis, ulna, legs, arms, skin, crack, snap, crack, squeeze, crack.”

As a result, Renner suffered 14 broken........

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