Jeremy Renner sustained serious injuries in an accident with his snow plow. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
Jeremy Renner After the accident he suffered on the morning of January 1st after a heavy snowfall, he is one of the most commented names on the film scene at the beginning of the year. The actor is best known for his role as Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universewas flown by helicopter from his home in Reno, Nevada and is currently hospitalized.
Since the news broke, the networks and peers have not stopped sending messages of support and countless displays of affection at this delicate moment. And precisely because we have him on our minds, we wanted to recall one of the anecdotes of his career, which probably more than one is not known. Because while many viewers now associate him directly with Marvel, Jeremy Renner He did notable work in independent cinema, deciding twice to win an Oscar (2010 for The Hurt Locker (known as Fear Zone or Living on the Limit) and 2011 for Dangerous Attraction), although he had come close to it much earlier with a previous film was. However, his dream of receiving the golden statuette was thwarted not by the fierce competition but by the scandal of Harvey Weinstein.
To know this story we have to go back to 2017 when Jeremy Renner along with Elizabeth Olsen, his Marvel partner, in the role of the Scarlet Witch was chosen to star in a film of the title wind flow. It was the debut towards Taylor SheridanFilmmakers behind the screenplay of acclaimed titles like Hitman: No Man’s Land either Nothing to lose who have gone behind the scenes to bring us an intense, gritty, and shocking thriller about the abuse of Native American women in a hostile environment like the Wind River Reservation in wintry Wyoming.
It was premiered in film festival cannes of 2017, where the critics fell asleep during its presentation in the Un Certain Regard section of the French competition. The film also won the Best Director Award for Taylor Sheridan was consolidated as one of the strongest nominations for the Oscars race in 2018. And not just in the film or directing categories, but since then also in the acting categories One of the many virtues highlighted was Renner’s excellent workwho very soberly and reservedly played a tracker on the Wind River compound affected by the death of his daughter under strange circumstances.
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Those chances for the film and Renner to win the gold statuette were intensified when Wind River hit theaters in the US in the summer of 2017 to huge success as it managed to gross $33.8 million in a limited initial release with a budget of only 11 million. But although everything seemed to be going smoothly, wind flow In his race to the top of the awards, he encountered an insurmountable obstacle: Having Harvey Weinstein as distributor and executive producer in the year that all of his molestation, sexual abuse, and rape scandals came to light.
The case was serious since wind flow It dealt with sexual assault and had among its executives the producer who was accused of molestation and rape. Rewarding her would bring recognition to a man who had continued acts like those denounced in the film.
Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen at a screening of the film “Wind River” in 2017. (Photo by Paul Zimmerman/WireImage)
And so his Oscar options vanished. Its director fought tooth and nail to try to free Wind River from Harvey Weinstein’s clutches, to prevent the producer from eclipsing the film’s powerful indictment of the abuse of local women, and to keep options in the to have price races.
As Taylor Sheridan told Vanity Fair in 2018, as soon as she found out about the sex scandals, she immediately contacted The Weinstein Company’s operations manager with whom negotiated a resignation wind flow its catalog and the donation of all its profits the Tunica Biloxi Indian tribe, which funded part of the project; and the National Indian Women’s Resource Center.
“I cannot allow a film about violence against women to be silenced by the perpetrator of the act. I called the investor, I called the producer, I called Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen and said, ‘This is what I’m going to do. I will withdraw it [de The Weinstein Company]'” the director said. “It’s unfair to people that this film is under this roof. i need it back I need the proceeds to go to a charity of my choice.”.
Eventually, the director managed to persuade the board of The Weinstein Company to get rid of Wind River, which, given the panorama they faced with their top manager’s scandals, I think they would have had little choice but to give in. The company logo was removed from the film and the Tunica Biloxi tribe attempted to launch a self-funding campaign wind flow and Jeremy Renner at the Oscars, but it wasn’t enough. Harvey Weinstein’s name was still in the credits as executive producer, and hiring a job in which he had minimal involvement didn’t seem like an option amid the scandals.
A) Yes, wind flow and one of the best performances of Jeremy Renner’s career was forgotten.. A performance that deserved to be included in the 2018 Oscar nominations, which this year saw the performer possibly take one of the spots ultimately going to winners Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour), Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name ) and Daniel Day left. Lewis (The Phantom Thread), Daniel Kaluuya (Runaway!) and Denzel Washington (Roman J. Israel, Esq).
Wind River went through some rooms in Latin America in September 2017 under different titles such as Mysterious Death in Mexico, Colombia and Chile or Wild Wind in Argentina. Fortunately, thanks to streaming platforms today, it can be easily recovered It can be rented on sites like Apple TV+.
And I strongly recommend watching it.. It’s a slow thriller in its early stages, but very hard and intense in terms of its subject matter, the power of its characters and settings. Y I believe Such a powerful denunciation of sexual abuse in a film so dedicated to Native American women should not be overshadowed by Weinstein’s polemics, appreciating that the former producer was only involved in the distribution and execution work and that it was a film denounced with the efforts of Native American tribes like the Tunica-Biloxi and with the director’s intent. Likewise, The controversial producer will never smell a penny again from his profits, which have been donated to charity.