Jeremy Renner made his first late-night appearance since his near-fatal snowplow accident in January.
Renner, 52, was a guest on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday night to advertise his upcoming Disney+ series “Rennervations,” in addition to to debate the incident that left him hospitalized.
The actor was in good spirits as he walked onto the set with a cane and did a bit dance as he sat down for the interview.
Kimmel, 55, introduced his guest as “indestructible” and an “Avenger who beat Thanos, Loki and a 14,000-pound snowplow.”
The late-night host jokingly asked if this was a publicity stunt, to which Renner joked in response: “Absolutely.”
“Now if there was any query as to who the hardest Avenger was, that’s settled now,” Kimmel said. “Forget [Robert] Downey [Jr.], forget [Chris] Hemsworth, forget these guys, it’s you, you’re the guy.”
Renner humbly responded, “Yeah, I assume so.”
“I believe I speak for all of us once I say, thank God, have a look at you, you look great. We’re glad to see you here,” Kimmel concluded before discussing Renner’s accident.
Renner was critically injured in a snowplow incident on Latest Yr’s Day and was hospitalized after “experiencing a weather-related accident while plowing snow” and suffering “extensive” injuries, breaking over 30 bones, in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
“I got lucky in a number of ways. I’m blissful to be here,” he told Kimmel.
The “Hawkeye” actor explained how he was lucky that the snowplow didn’t hit his vertebrae or any organs, and Kimmel identified that he suffered a collapsed lung.
“Yeah that’s positive, I even have one other one,” Renner quipped.
The “Avengers” star gave a shout-out to his mom and family — who were within the audience — and explained how he immediately began eager about his family’s perspective of the accident the moment he was on the bottom.
He revealed that he got kicked out of the primary ICU he was in, which was under construction, so he was put in what he described as a “janitor’s closet” and said it was like a “haunted house.”
“I’m going back to this hospital this week to apologize to each one among those nurses,” Renner laughed.
Renner also shared a video that Paul Rudd sent him while he was within the hospital — in the shape of a fake Cameo video.
Rudd, 54, made a fake Cameo as if Renner paid him to and acted as if he was some random fan, calling him “Jerry” and joking that at some point possibly the 2 of them could meet.
The late-night appearance comes shortly after Renner’s first on-screen interview because the incident where he spoke to ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer.
The actor told Sawyer, 77, that he refuses to be “haunted” by the memory of the accident.
“I shifted the narrative of it being victimized or making a mistake or the rest,” Renner said within the hourlong special. “I refuse to be f – – king haunted by that memory that way.”
He also revealed within the interview that he was writing his “last words” to his family while within the hospital.
“I’m writing down notes on my phone. Last words to my family,” he shared, holding back tears.
