Jeremy Renner is currently promoting Arrival, the film where he sort of plays second fiddle to Amy Adams. Realistically though, I think they’re probably considered co-leads, especially since Renner is hustling so hard for this movie. He covers the new issue of #Legend Magazine, or are we supposed to call it Hashtag Legend? I have no idea. You can read the full interview here. Some highlights:
Whether he speaks other languages: “I understand Spanish pretty well. I used to teach it in high school, but then haven’t used it in a good many years, so my motor skills of speaking the language are pretty primal.
Whether he believes in aliens: “I certainly believe in another life out there, for sure. Perhaps not how we perceive it in the cinema, but for sure, yeah, I certainly believe in that.
Musical plans: “The idea is to release a few singles and drop an album. It’s all, kind of, up in the air. I don’t cement myself to any decision. I have no expectations or ultimate goals. I don’t need music to make money. I’ve already made a ton of money. The idea is just to share it.”
Musical inspirations: “I grew up with classics like The Beatles. But every night I also listen to Beethoven. I don’t really discriminate with music, as long as there’s melody. My songs have flavours of contemporary music with pop sensibilities like Bruno Mars, whom I’m crazy about, Hozier, Kings of Leon and old-school flavours like Otis Redding. There’s a very soulful pop mentality to it all. There’ll be emotional stuff that takes you back.
On fame: “Yeah, here’s the thing. That’s not something I ever wanted. It comes with the gig. You don’t want to sh-t on it, but what are you going to do? It’s much worse for women, by the way. They’re dissected on everything from what they wear to the beach to cellulite; just awful, disgusting things. Women celebrities get it a lot harder than guys. You have to get a thicker skin than already what it takes to be an actor, which is not the greatest thing. I don’t want to be guarded. I don’t want to have side eyes looking around everywhere I go because of people wanting something from me.
What his daughter Ava has taught him: “On the surface, she’s given me the greatest gift in life: the gift of focus and undeniable clarity of what I really want. It’s what real, true, unconditional love is. Say there’s an Oscar on my shelf. Well, that Oscar is not going to be there at my deathbed. My daughter will be. She’s blessed me with thoughts and wisdom about life. It’s a really wonderful gift. And now I have the opportunity where I have the luxury of spending a lot of time with Ava, and I want to. Being a father is the best role to date. There’s nothing that’s going to trump it. And that’s a wonderful feeling, to be so secure about what I want to do and what I want to be. There are a lot of things I don’t speak about, but this is something I do cherish, and will speak to you about it or on Instagram. It says a lot about who I am: being an involved parent, a cool father and making it a cool, bitchin’ thing.
How many kids he’d like to have: “Ava was such an angel baby and never acted out. I want to have, like, five of them. I just want to come home and have five girls adoring their daddy. The idea of that sounds fun, but once it sinks in, that diminishes the amount of time spent in the preciousness of each individual child. So I’m just happy I have Ava in my life. I’m pretty happy with that.
I think he sounds a little bit pretentious and New Age-y at times, but mostly it’s fine. He loves music, he loves working, he loves being a dad and he’s trying very hard to not make news following a rather scandalous back-and-forth with his ex for the better part of a year. Perhaps this is his rebranding – he doesn’t care about Oscars, he’s super-chill, he’s just focused on Ava. I also think this is very telling: “I just want to come home and have five girls adoring their daddy.”
Photos courtesy of #Legend.
That cover pic is more than a little disturbing. What were they thinking??
Really? I think they are all really good actually. He can look good or kind of old and not well maintained, depending on how he’s posed.
I think the white shirt is better, but I’d remove the cigarette, personally. I don’t get disturbing from the first, though. It’s a dude sitting on a motorcycle.
I think what he said is fine. How is it any different from Shelby in Steel Magnolias talking about how she wanted to be covered in grandchildren saying No! and Stop that!? He had an idea of how he wanted his family to be just like everyone else does.
Because Jeremy Renner is creepy & has a punchable face.
There’s something creepy about wanting the adoration of 5 little girls.
I agree. I wonder if he has ‘issues’ with women?
It sounds a little “Jim-Bob Duggar” to me.
I have never lost so much interest for an actor so quickly as with Renner. I think he tries too hard to be something he’s not, and can’t quite pull it off. The whole “macho” spread shown here is a perfect example: I don’t find anything remotely macho about it. I’m just not buying what he’s selling.
Exactly.
He’s posing with a cigarette, tough guy.
It doesn’t work.
He is a heavy smoker, so it isn’t a prop and that is one of his motorbikes, so that isn’t a prop either.
Eeww.
I really hate myself for thinking this but he looks really good on that cover
*cowers in shame*
I don’t like the guy.
This comes off as super skeezy to me. It clearly wasn’t meant that way, but coming from the guy who got in trouble for calling the Black Widow character a “sl** it just comes off creepy that he wants five daughters just adoring him. They’d be the ‘right’ kind of good girls then.
Again – I know this wasn’t the intention here, but that’s the first thing I thought of.
This is also from the article, which gives an idea of how he would like her to grow up.
“I see her tenacity. She’s got a lot of strength. She’s pretty fearless and I’d like to keep it that way. She’s going to create a lot of problems for me in life, but really great problems, you know? She’s drop-dead gorgeous and wicked smart. She’s very powerful and I’m just going to give her skill sets to guide her. It’s an amazing thing.”
He wants daddy’s girls… probably can’t handle sons. Reminds me of BP, I remember reading he wanted all girls too.
Jermey while not my type, is a guy that looks so much better in motion than print.
His fingers are so distracting.
From what I have read his dad left him, his mum and his sister when he was 8, he was the birth coach when his younger sister was born when he was still at high school and the same for his niece when he was in college. He now has 6 younger siblings. Add that to the fact that he had to fight really hard for custody and he is probably just a bit more intense than most when it comes to kids and little girls in particular; how many boys have taken on that surrogate role for two baby girls when they haven’t even finished college?
I think people need to relax a little. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with him wanting daddy’s girls. There are lots of women out there who are daddy’s girls, and there’s nothing sleazy or creepy about it. Stop inserting sexual impropriety where there is none
Yeah, how come whenever a man expresses interest in any female, it’s automatically seen as a sexual interest? We get so up in arms at the notion that little girls should think they have to play with dolls or that women should give up their careers to raise a family but men are still supposed to want sons, and to want daughters means they have some secret perverted motive.
EXACTLY! A friend of mine and his fiance are trying for a baby. Whenever he talks about how much he wants a daughter and we’re in public people give him looks. It goes back to what we as a society teach to and about men and boys. I don’t think gender equality will be a reality until we tackle those issues as well
I think that it is more about him making them sound like puppies that are all unconditional love and jumping around to see him when he walks in the door. Plus, it is all about what he gets out of it. He even admitted what turned him off that idea was realizing they are five different individuals who will need things from him too.
@ Lindsay
He said that if he had five daughters, it would take away from the individual time he could spend with them. I think that’s different than what it sounds like you are saying. He was saying that he’d rather spend more time with less kids. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
I didn’t get the puppy thing either. My kids go barreling for the door when Daddy comes home. His words sounded like the same thing to me.
+1
This. I find it veeeery creepy that people jumped to give this a sexual undertone so quickly.
It’s stuff like that that makes me happy I’m not famous. Idk how I’d react if I were Renner and I found out people online are insinuating I want to bang my daughters.
+1
I dont think there’s anything wrong with wanting daddy’s girls. I have 3 sisters and we are all much closer to dad than mama. Dont think its wierd at all
I was a daddy’s girl, one of my sisters was mummy’s girl and the other sister didn’t have a preference. I think it just comes down to what you have in common and it doesn’t mean you don’t love the other parent with all your heart. Neither of my sisters loved to walk for miles with the dog and watch old movies and that was what sealed the deal with me and dad. I really miss him.
My daughter is a Daddy’s girl. She loves me, but Daddy is her BFF. I was a daddy’s girl too. I just don’t see anything wrong with what he said. Some people want boys, some want girls. Some don’t care.
I am a Renner fan, but I do have to say that the album thing makes me nervous. The man can sing decently enough, but I always get a little antsy when people swerve out of their lane. Yeah, I know he wanted to do music before acting, but still. I guess we’ll see.
BTW….I saw Arrival. He very much DOES play second fiddle to Amy Adams even though they may technically be billed as co-leads. I’m not sure his role is even enough to talk about possible award nominations for him, but Amy and the movie deserve the nominations for sure.
He gives me the creeps. His facial expression on the motorbike bwah ha ha, I get it, sexy, smoldering, then holding the cig, getting ready to drop his album on us all.
If he has five beard baby mamas who litigate heavily with him to bear those five daughters, stuff is gonna get expensive Jer.
Issues.
Ha ha! Better put than me.
Probably, but we all do and he has more cause than most. See my comments above for his strange early surrogate dad role. Mum was only 18 when she had him, he probably felt he had to be the replacement dad for his sister when he was only 8, that may have been compounded by being asked to step in as a birth coach for and presumably surrogate dad for his younger sister and then the same for the older sister’s kid, all when he should have been out playing with his friends. He clearly loves his family, but the antics of his various family members must have been difficult for a boy growing up. On one hand he seems to form very strong platonic bonds with women of all ages, but then makes dreadful choices when it comes to non-platonic relationships. He is a bit of a mess but he seems to be universally liked and respected in Hollywood, so he can’t be all that bad.
Well it would be curious to see who will mother all those other girls (kids). If he wants them to look like Ava, he then should work with the ex.
Although I find that difficult since Jeremy is living again with the “roommate “, who posted a video in his IG tittle from my house !! And it is Renner’s piano (even you can see the reflection of Renner’s daughter ). So then in this case a surrogate would be better.