From L to R: Jeremy Renner, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth.Photo: getty (3)Jeremy Renneris getting candid about some playful behind-the-scenes friction on the Marvel movies.The two-timeAcademy Awardnominee, 51, reminisced about the timeRobert Downey Jr.jokingly suggested breakingChris Hemsworth’s knee on the set of 2012’sThe Avengers, ashe appeared MondayonDax Shepard’sArmchair Expertpodcast.“We’re all kind of parading around in our costumes,” Renner recalled. “So it looks like it’s Halloween. We’re excited and equally feeling ridiculous. I feel like we all kind of knew each other, somehow, some way. Except we didn’t know this Hemsworth guy, because he comes from Australia.““He’s the tallest, he’s the most good-looking. Downey [was like], ‘We’ve got to break his knee. We’ve got to take him out. This guy’s too good-looking. He’s too tall. He’s too charming. F— this guy,’ " Renner added.Poster forThe Avengers(2012).Marvel StudiosIn all seriousness, Renner said that he and hisAvengerscostars have grown to see each other as “family,” adding, “You can’t replace that or quantify it.““Everyone’s a celebrity in their own right,” theHawkeyestar explained. “But a Marvel celebrity, especially as the original six, has just been a different kind of journey.“Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human-interest stories.“There’s been marriages and divorces and kids being born and a lot of shifts and changes in our personal lives, as well as our acting lives, that we all share together in a very specific way,” he also said, noting that thecast has gotten matching tattoosto symbolize their bond.RELATED VIDEO: Paul Rudd Embraced HisAnt-ManTraining Until He Stood Next to Chris Hemsworth: “What’s the Point?“Hemsworth appears to have intimidated several of his Marvel costarswith his physique, as PEOPLE’s reigning Sexiest Man AlivePaul Ruddrecounted a similar experience from his first encounter with theThor: Love and Thunderactor, a fellow SMA alum.“I remember on the set of[Avengers:]Endgame, I was working out so hard, eating perfect, for so long, training like an athlete,” Rudd, 52,recounted to PEOPLEin November.Rudd added, “And I stood next to Chris Hemsworth, and I thought, ‘What’s the point?’ Why even try, ‘cause there’sthat.”
From L to R: Jeremy Renner, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth.Photo: getty (3)
Jeremy Renneris getting candid about some playful behind-the-scenes friction on the Marvel movies.The two-timeAcademy Awardnominee, 51, reminisced about the timeRobert Downey Jr.jokingly suggested breakingChris Hemsworth’s knee on the set of 2012’sThe Avengers, ashe appeared MondayonDax Shepard’sArmchair Expertpodcast.“We’re all kind of parading around in our costumes,” Renner recalled. “So it looks like it’s Halloween. We’re excited and equally feeling ridiculous. I feel like we all kind of knew each other, somehow, some way. Except we didn’t know this Hemsworth guy, because he comes from Australia.““He’s the tallest, he’s the most good-looking. Downey [was like], ‘We’ve got to break his knee. We’ve got to take him out. This guy’s too good-looking. He’s too tall. He’s too charming. F— this guy,’ " Renner added.Poster forThe Avengers(2012).Marvel StudiosIn all seriousness, Renner said that he and hisAvengerscostars have grown to see each other as “family,” adding, “You can’t replace that or quantify it.““Everyone’s a celebrity in their own right,” theHawkeyestar explained. “But a Marvel celebrity, especially as the original six, has just been a different kind of journey.“Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human-interest stories.“There’s been marriages and divorces and kids being born and a lot of shifts and changes in our personal lives, as well as our acting lives, that we all share together in a very specific way,” he also said, noting that thecast has gotten matching tattoosto symbolize their bond.RELATED VIDEO: Paul Rudd Embraced HisAnt-ManTraining Until He Stood Next to Chris Hemsworth: “What’s the Point?“Hemsworth appears to have intimidated several of his Marvel costarswith his physique, as PEOPLE’s reigning Sexiest Man AlivePaul Ruddrecounted a similar experience from his first encounter with theThor: Love and Thunderactor, a fellow SMA alum.“I remember on the set of[Avengers:]Endgame, I was working out so hard, eating perfect, for so long, training like an athlete,” Rudd, 52,recounted to PEOPLEin November.Rudd added, “And I stood next to Chris Hemsworth, and I thought, ‘What’s the point?’ Why even try, ‘cause there’sthat.”
Jeremy Renneris getting candid about some playful behind-the-scenes friction on the Marvel movies.
The two-timeAcademy Awardnominee, 51, reminisced about the timeRobert Downey Jr.jokingly suggested breakingChris Hemsworth’s knee on the set of 2012’sThe Avengers, ashe appeared MondayonDax Shepard’sArmchair Expertpodcast.
“We’re all kind of parading around in our costumes,” Renner recalled. “So it looks like it’s Halloween. We’re excited and equally feeling ridiculous. I feel like we all kind of knew each other, somehow, some way. Except we didn’t know this Hemsworth guy, because he comes from Australia.”
“He’s the tallest, he’s the most good-looking. Downey [was like], ‘We’ve got to break his knee. We’ve got to take him out. This guy’s too good-looking. He’s too tall. He’s too charming. F— this guy,’ " Renner added.
Poster forThe Avengers(2012).Marvel Studios
In all seriousness, Renner said that he and hisAvengerscostars have grown to see each other as “family,” adding, “You can’t replace that or quantify it.”
“Everyone’s a celebrity in their own right,” theHawkeyestar explained. “But a Marvel celebrity, especially as the original six, has just been a different kind of journey.”
Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human-interest stories.
“There’s been marriages and divorces and kids being born and a lot of shifts and changes in our personal lives, as well as our acting lives, that we all share together in a very specific way,” he also said, noting that thecast has gotten matching tattoosto symbolize their bond.
RELATED VIDEO: Paul Rudd Embraced HisAnt-ManTraining Until He Stood Next to Chris Hemsworth: “What’s the Point?”
Hemsworth appears to have intimidated several of his Marvel costarswith his physique, as PEOPLE’s reigning Sexiest Man AlivePaul Ruddrecounted a similar experience from his first encounter with theThor: Love and Thunderactor, a fellow SMA alum.
“I remember on the set of[Avengers:]Endgame, I was working out so hard, eating perfect, for so long, training like an athlete,” Rudd, 52,recounted to PEOPLEin November.
Rudd added, “And I stood next to Chris Hemsworth, and I thought, ‘What’s the point?’ Why even try, ‘cause there’sthat.”
source: people.com
