Jimmy Kimmel calls Jeremy Renner the ‘toughest Avenger’: ‘Forget Hemsworth’

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near-fatal snowplow accident in January.Renner, 52, was a guest on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday night to promote his upcoming Disney+ series “Rennervations,” as well as to discuss the incident that left him hospitalized.The actor was in good spirits as he walked onto the set with a cane and did a little 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 question as to who the toughest 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 guess so.”“I think I speak for all of us when I say, thank God, 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 New Year’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 lot of ways.

I’m happy 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 pointed out that he suffered a collapsed lung.“Yeah that’s fine, I have another one,” Renner quipped.The “Avengers” star gave a shout-out to his mom and family — who were in the audience — and explained how he immediately started thinking about his family’s perspective of the accident the moment he was on the ground.He revealed that.