HOW JEREMY BROKE HIS ARMS WHILE FILMING TAG
Actor Jeremy Renner has opened up about his accident on the sets of the film Tag which resulted in him breaking both of his arms.
The news was first revealed by the 47-year-old actor’s costar Jon Hamm, who revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that Renner, known for doing death-defying stunts as Hawkeye in Avengers franchise, fractured his “firewood”-like arms on the third day of filming the new comedy movie.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Renner revealed the injury occurred during a scene in which his character tries to escape being tagged by Hamm, Ed Helms, and Hannibal Buress by climbing up a stack of chairs. But the rigging on the chairs broke, resulting in the mishap.
“I broke along with it and fell on the ground, and broke my arms,” Renner said, adding he once again attempted the stunt, never suspecting that he had sustained an injury.
“Then, I realised [that] something’s wrong. So, I went to the hospital, and they said it was broken, so I got them wrapped up and then I went back to work and did everything I could do to continue ,” Renner said.
“I couldn’t rotate my hands but I could move my arms up and down kind of like a robot, but I would do anything that didn’t hurt essentially,” he added.
The actor said he wore splints and had to work with a physical therapist for the rest of production. He also revealed that the stack chairs stunt, which resulted in his injury, was the one scene that needed the CGI work. “I went back to shoot that day, [but] I didn’t take anything out of the cast. So I think they had to CGI my arm or something in just that one scene, but the rest of it, you know, it all went on okay,” Renner said.
RENNER CLIMBED UP A STACK OF CHAIRS FOR A SCENE. BUT THE RIGGING ON THE CHAIRS BROKE, RESULTING IN HIM BREAKING HIS ARMS