Jeremy Renner fell asleep while filming ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ after an accident

Jeremy Renner spoke to the LA times about his return to being the ‘mayor of Kingstown’ after his near-fatal snowplow accident.

In January 2023, Renner was run over by his own snowcat, which weighs at least 14,330 pounds, and suffered significant chest trauma – including a collapsed lung – and 38 broken bones.

In the Paramount+ series “Mayor of Kingstown,” Renner stars as Mike McLusky, a power broker in a fictional Michigan town where the company is imprisoned. He returned to the set in January, a year after his accident.

Renner told the LA Times that during his first week back at work, he sometimes fell asleep while filming a scene: “They say, ‘And action!’ And I was gone. We realized they were working me too hard, too many hours, too many days in a row,” he said. “What I am willingly doing is everything but what I am skilled doing is something else.”

He said producers accommodated him by adjusting filming schedules because jet lag is now extremely hard on his body. Instead of flying back and forth to California, Renner stayed in Pittsburgh for most of the four-month recording process.

“They have to treat me like I’m a child actor,” Renner joked. “The mayor of Kingstown is now like a fourteen-year-old.”

One of the actor’s eyes bulged out of his skull as a result of his snowplow accident. But according to Renner, the accident had a few unexpected benefits. He said he now has a photographic memory, which is useful in memorizing dialogue.

“The eyeball that came out of my head? I have better vision with that eye than with the other eye,” said Renner. “I think I’m becoming bionic.”

Season 3 of “Mayor of Kingstown” releases June 2 on Paramount+.