Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie in Rennervations.Photo:Disney/Katrina Marcinowski
Disney/Katrina Marcinowski
Jeremy Renneris recalling howAnthony Mackierushed to his side in the days following hissnowplow accident.
As Renner, 53, relived the experience withJames Cordenon SiriusXM’sThis Life of Mine with James Corden, he shared how thankful he is for hisAvengersandThe Hurt Lockercostar Mackie, 45.
“One of the first people at my hospital bed was Anthony Mackie. This accident. He was in Vegas,” Renner recalled. “He shot over, and he’s the first person I saw when I woke up.”
“And we don’t talk all the time,” he added. “We’re not, like, hanging out all the time, because the problem with having, you know, actor friends, everyone’s so busy and now we’re all parents and we never see each other. We rarely talk to each other, but the connectedness that we have is an always thing.”
Renner and Mackie worked together on 2008’sThe Hurt Locker, in which they portrayed soldiers during the Iraq War. The pair later appeared in multipleAvengersmovies together.
Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie in The Hurt Locker.Summit Entertainment
Summit Entertainment
“They’ve affected my life in unexpected ways,” Renner shared of his friendship with Mackie and Geraghty, 48. “We should have just been guys working together or whatever, and it’s become far beyond that.”
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Anthony Mackie and Jeremy Renner on March 7, 2010.Alex Berliner/BEI/Shutterstock
Alex Berliner/BEI/Shutterstock
The actor noted that he was with Mackie and Geraghty “all the time, on and off camera” while they filmedHurt Lockerin Jordan in 2007.
“Having that shared experience with somebody, that was so life-changing,” he added. “It just cements or anchors one of the very principles that I desire in life is a shared experience with a human.”
Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie.Peter Kramer/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
Peter Kramer/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
Renner previously shared that Mackie “was there at my bedside” in the initial aftermath of the Jan. 1, 2023, snowplow accident in his interview withDiane Sawyerback in April.
New episodes of SiriusXM’sThis Life of Mine with James Cordenair Thursdays on Stars (ch. 109) and on the SiriusXM app.
source: people.com
