Jeremy Renner teases possible ‘Mission: Impossible’ return
Written by ABC AUDIO ALL RIGHTS RESERVED on May 28, 2024
If any actor could pull off an impossible mission, it would be Jeremy Renner, who is thriving after nearly being crushed to death by a snowplow on January 1, 2023.
The Oscar-nominated Mayor of Kingstown star played the special agent William Brandt in 2011’s hit Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, but he tells Collider that a real-life mission — fatherhood — kept him from appearing in any follow-ups.
“I had to leave that. I was supposed to do more with them,” the Marvel superhero said. “I love those guys. I love Tom [Cruise] so much. We had so much fun, and I love that character a lot.”
He added, “It requires a lot of time away. It’s all in London. I had to go be a dad. It just wasn’t gonna work out then.”
As a result, Brandt was missing from the subsequent Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation in 2015; Fallout in 2018; and 2023’s Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One.
Production on the sequel to that film — an eighth M:I movie — is underway, and that is apparently a mission Renner would choose to accept.
Renner added, “Maybe now that my daughter is older that could happen. I’d always jump into a Mission: Impossible anytime and back into Brandt. It’s great.”
Incidentally, the actor starred with his now-11-year-old daughter, Ava, in a Super Bowl ad for Silk almond milk.
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