About five weeks out from Jeremy Renner's tragic snowplow accident, fellow Marvel Cinematic Universe actors Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly have offered an update on his recovery.
Rudd revealed to Entertainment Tonight that he had checked in with Renner right before the world premiere of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania on Monday (February 6). "He's doing alright," the actor said. "He's doing well… He's the best guy and he's awesome."
Likewise, Lilly told Access Hollywood how blown away she was by Renner's progress when she paid him a visit. "I walked in his house and got chicken skin because I was like, 'Why are you mobile? Why are you mobile? What's happening?'" she said [as transcribed by Variety]. "I expected to sit at his bedside and hold his hand while he moaned and groaned in pain and wasn't able to move. He was wheeling himself around, laughing with his friends. It's a miracle. It's a straight-up miracle. He's made of something really tough, that guy. You've always been able to see that in him and he is recovering incredibly."
Lilly continued, "It was really intense. I mean, he had a near-death experience that was highly traumatic, and he was awake for the whole thing. I'm still having moments where some of the stuff he told me that he experienced and retelling me the story of what went on and the things he could hear and the things that he could see."
On New Year's Day, Renner had towed his nephew's truck out of his own driveway. When the actor's Pistenbully snowplow then began sliding, he jumped out, then noticed it was headed straight toward his nephew. Renner then had to climb onto the machine's moving track in an attempt to divert its path, and was immediately pulled underneath the snow-removal tractor. He was airlifted to hospital in critical but stable condition, having broken over 30 bones.
The Avengers star was released from hospital around mid-January, and has since been recovering at home.
Rudd revealed to Entertainment Tonight that he had checked in with Renner right before the world premiere of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania on Monday (February 6). "He's doing alright," the actor said. "He's doing well… He's the best guy and he's awesome."
Likewise, Lilly told Access Hollywood how blown away she was by Renner's progress when she paid him a visit. "I walked in his house and got chicken skin because I was like, 'Why are you mobile? Why are you mobile? What's happening?'" she said [as transcribed by Variety]. "I expected to sit at his bedside and hold his hand while he moaned and groaned in pain and wasn't able to move. He was wheeling himself around, laughing with his friends. It's a miracle. It's a straight-up miracle. He's made of something really tough, that guy. You've always been able to see that in him and he is recovering incredibly."
Lilly continued, "It was really intense. I mean, he had a near-death experience that was highly traumatic, and he was awake for the whole thing. I'm still having moments where some of the stuff he told me that he experienced and retelling me the story of what went on and the things he could hear and the things that he could see."
On New Year's Day, Renner had towed his nephew's truck out of his own driveway. When the actor's Pistenbully snowplow then began sliding, he jumped out, then noticed it was headed straight toward his nephew. Renner then had to climb onto the machine's moving track in an attempt to divert its path, and was immediately pulled underneath the snow-removal tractor. He was airlifted to hospital in critical but stable condition, having broken over 30 bones.
The Avengers star was released from hospital around mid-January, and has since been recovering at home.
