Summary

Jeremy Renner is down to reunite with his
Avengers
castmates: “It’d be awesome.”
But Renner also wonders, “Do they bring back just the OG, or do they bring back 60 people?”
If a reunion happens in
Avengers: Secret Wars,
fans still have three more years to wait before the film drops in 2027.

As usual, Hawkeye is right on target. The actor who brought the bow-and-arrow-wielding hero Clint Barton to life in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and on the Hawkeye Disney+ series, Jeremy Renner, reveals that “It’d be awesome” for the Avengers to reunite. And with Avengers: Secret Wars on the horizon, Josh Horowitz asked Renner about his feelings on the OG squad possibly returning, given that two of the most beloved members, Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) died in Avengers: Endgame. Renner responded by saying on the Happy Sad Confused podcast:

“Maybe if enough time goes by, right?
And I think it kind of has at this point. But also, what is the point of the narrative of the story?
These are beloved characters.
We did spend 23 films together essentially as a collective.
To start it up [again], or what is the reason?
What is the story? Do you have to do more after that?
How do you ever resolve this?
[Horowitz laughs].”

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Renner continues:

“When is it ever gonna feel like everyone gets their little bow,
‘Oh, it feels great —nobody died.’ What happens here? Like, what happens here?

Or there’s no consequences because we can like just Multi-Universe here, and your death doesn’t mean anything.

So, yeah, I’ve got feelings about it. I think everybody does.
I think the guys who died have feelings about it
[Horowitz laughs].”

‘Do They Bring Back Just the OG, or Do They Bring Back 60 People?’

Certainly, many of Jeremy Renner’s best performances happen within the confines of the MCU. Whether it’s his pivotal role in the Disney+ Hawkeye series, or that unforgettable and heart-breaking scene with co-star Scarlett Johansson, during Avengers: Endgame, in which Black Widow and Barton battle for who will sacrifice themselves to gain possession of the Soul Stone, Renner always seems to bring the goods. But when asked by Josh Horowitz if Renner ever Googled Avengers: Secret Wars, the actor said in the same sit-down:

“I don’t know. I don’t know what that is
[…] But, yeah,
I’m always down for it
[reuniting with the Avengers].
I think it’d be great. It’d be awesome.
I’d love to be with everyone again.
But do they bring back just the OG,
or do they bring back 60 people?
And they need Thanos again… start snapping [laughter].”

Related The 13 Best Marvel Movies, Ranked by Rotten Tomatoes Marvel’s history on the big screen extends far beyond the confines of the MCU, with beloved films like Logan and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.

As alluded to earlier, Black Widow’s death is a heart-breaking and jagged little pill to swallow, but the good news is that Hawkeye, aka Clint Barton, lives to fight another day. And Renner hilariously recalls being in the theater and watching the fandom react to Widow’s demise. Renner first told Horowitz how conversations with some fans went when he bumped into them after the pivotal scene played out on-screen, and then he recalled memories of shooting the Soul Stone sequence. Renner said:

‘It should have been you!’ [Horowitz laughs]. ‘What did I do, man? Geez!’
[…] I remember hanging off this cliff in this girdle.
And I remember hanging upside down. I really just had to climb up here, and Scarlett was on her knees.
So she could just be there for like an eyeline and do the thing when I’m holding her.
It was so not sexy to look at,
but on camera it was the real thing.
And that’s part of the gig, you have to imagine those worlds.”

Fans can stream or binge-watch
Hawkeye
and check out
Avengers: Endgame
along with all the other MCU entries on
Disney+
right now.