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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Jeremy Renner

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

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4.54K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

At this point, you've probably already seen "Avengers: Endgame," the highly-anticipated twenty-second installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In this week's Sunday Sitdown, Willie Geist talks to one of the stars of the film, Jeremy Renner, about his role as one of the six original Avengers, Hawkeye. They also talk about the evolution of his career, from Oscar-nominated leading man to new ventures in music and home remodeling.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

0:04.1

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along this week.

0:07.6

By the time you're hearing this interview, I'm going to say that my guest movie,

0:12.1

Avengers Endgame, has pushed its way close to a billion dollars at the box office

0:17.3

around the world in its opening weekend. Jeremy Renner plays Hawkeye in the Avengers movies.

0:23.9

He's an Academy Award-nominated actor who broke through, you'll remember,

0:28.4

more than a decade ago in the Hurt Locker.

0:31.4

Was nominated the very next year for another Academy Award in the town

0:35.6

and has gone on to this big career with the Avengers in the porn movies.

0:40.7

He's done Mission Impossible. He's been all over the place.

0:44.0

One of the most highly regarded actors in Hollywood, but also one of those guys who can do it all.

0:49.6

The big budget stuff, the small movies. This one, Endgame, is the 22nd installment

0:55.7

in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, taking place over a decade, and it's taken the world by storm.

1:02.4

Jeremy and I got together here in New York City to talk about his movie career,

1:06.4

his youth growing up in Modesto, California with a family that ran a bowling alley.

1:11.3

Gotta love that. We get into how his games look in these days.

1:13.9

Pretty sharp, it sounds like.

1:15.9

Being a dad to a six-year-old daughter named Ava and bet you didn't know, great musician,

1:21.2

big music career. In fact, he has scored the soundtrack to an upcoming animated film in which he

1:27.3

also plays the lead character and voices of Fox. A lot going on in the life and the universe

1:33.7

of Jeremy Renner right now on the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

1:37.4

Thanks for doing this, man. I appreciate it.

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