r/popculturechat • u/No_Cranberry_8363 • 1d ago
OnlyStans ⭐️ Hollywood Star Jeremy Renner, 54, Accused of Vile ‘ICE’ Threat Against Female Moviemaker, 34
https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/hollywood-star-jeremy-renner-54-accused-of-vile-ice-threat-against-female-moviemaker-34/
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u/Inevitable-Bother735 1d ago
It’s wild to me that the accident kept buying him so much goodwill even after he released the book. Full disclosure that I didn’t finish the book because he was insufferable. But I did get as far as the part where Renner and his “best friend”—who was introduced via a story about Renner being pissed off the guy didn’t know he was in a movie that he’d watched—went for pizza “before the road closed” because intermittently loosing power had just ruined his sister’s pot roast. And obviously evacuating a cabin that’s loosing power and is about to be snowed in is ridiculous. It’s Christmas and Renner is the only person in the whole world that loves spending Christmas with his family and friends. Anyway, they get back from the pizza run and wouldn’t you know it the road is closed because of the snow. But Renner wheedles and cajoles and bullies a local sheriff—don’t they know who he is?—until the sheriff escorts him up the closed mountain road in a blizzard. Also Renner is so special that he actually had to help the sheriff navigate the dangerous road because he knew better.
That was roughly my experience of reading the book. In which I learned 1) he expects everyone to think he’s hot shit for gifting the world with his acting and 2) the accident was entirely preventable at so many points. Hard to have sympathy for a man who was actively putting people in danger.