Jeremy Renner shares another Instagram recovery update post-snowplow accident
"Whatever it takes," Jeremy Renner captioned an Instagram Story of him using an exercise bike just under two months after he was gravely injured on January 2
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Ever since he was gravely injured in a snowplow accident on January 2, Jeremy Renner has been diligent about keeping fans updated on his recovery via Instagram (if only another, more specified app for the job still existed…)
Although Renner broke more than 30 bones when his snow vehicle began sliding and crushed him, a new update shows the actor up and moving again.“Whatever it takes,” Renner captioned an Instagram story on February 27 that shows him working out on an exercise bike while wearing casual, comfortable clothes.
Renner followed up the video with another story, captioned “Mental Recovery Too,” that showed the actor holding a copy of Mark Nepo’s New York Times bestseller The Book Of Awakening. Subtitled “Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have,” the book is a well-loved spirituality tome first released in 2000.
Renner had to undergo two separate surgeries following the accident, which somehow only kept him in the hospital for two weeks. The actor shared his first post from home in mid-January, and was at least strong enough to plug his new Paramount+ show Mayor Of Kingstown while doing so.
The whole thing is pretty unbelievable, given that the 7-ton plow could’ve killed Renner; his friend and MCU cohort Evangeline Lilly shared as much after visiting Renner at home. In an interview with Access Hollywood earlier this month, Lilly said she was surprised at just how up and about Renner was.
“He was wheeling himself around, laughing with his friends. It’s a miracle. It’s a straight-up miracle,” she shared. “He’s made of something really tough, that guy. You’ve always been able to see that in him and he is recovering incredibly.”
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Lilly – So, who knew there was this thing called medicine?
We need you, Jeremy The Rennerssaince can’t happen if you die.
I’m still waiting for that final Bourne team-up film with Damon AND Renner damnit.
That’s awesome news.
Is his instagram getting swamped or something? Link won’t open.
In any case, if he’s using an exercise bike, that’s fantastic news. He didn’t lose a leg or have permanent spinal damage.
I just watched the clip. He’s only pedaling with one leg, with manual assistance, while the other rests immobile. Which—I mean, absence of evidence does not equal evidence of absence. But this video in itself does not indicate that he has anything like full mobility.
There’s the Internet I know I love.
“Good for Renner!”
“Meh, wake me when he uses both legs.”
Hey girl are you Reed Richards because I have to tell you that is quite a stretch
Yeah, I thought I heard he had several bones in his leg crushed. An exercise bike???? Well played Hawkeye.
In the video, he’s pedaling with one leg. The other leg is off the pedals, stationary. The pedaling leg is getting assistance from a handle or elastic band held in his hand on the same side.Impressive recovery, glad he’s making (and sharing) his progress.
Ah, that’s not as promising.
This is a great opportunity to tell a story an acting professor told me years ago. He was openly mocking a guy who auditioned for Shakespeare in the park who submitted headshots of himself holding a book of all of shakespeares work by his face.
He joked that this was suggesting that he had “read all of shakespeares plays”.
The concept still kills me.
He had another good one about a headshot of a guy in an empty room leaning against a chair and looking back at the camera.
I’m impressed and wishing him well. And… was it not worth mentioning that “whatever it takes” is from Endgame?
“He’s made of something really tough, that guy. You’ve always been able to see that in him and he is recovering incredibly.”Renner might be tough, but the reason he’s recovering is that he can afford whatever medical care is necessary. Also, he doesn’t have to worry about losing his job.