Not long after he was hospitalized after a snow vehicle accident on New Year’s Day, Jeremy Renner was already cracking up a friend from afar.
Hugh Dillon, the co-creator of Renner’s Paramount+ crime drama “Mayor of Kingstown” and also a co-star on the series, was terrified for his friend after he heard about the accident, in which Renner suffered blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries, but it didn’t take long until Renner assuaged his fears.
“I wanted to fly out to see him,” Dillon told USA TODAY in an interview Wednesday while promoting the new season of “Kingstown” (premiering Sunday). “And then I get a video and he’s just funny and profane.”
“I was like OK, alright, he’s gonna be a handful.”
Renner got out of a snow plow he has at his home in Reno, Nevada, on the side of a snow mountain on Jan. 1 to help a stranded car when he was run over by his own vehicle, Washoe County Sherriff Darin Balaam said in a press conference.
Becoming emotional, Dillon described the one-day period after hearing about the accident before hearing from Renner himself.
“He’s like family now. He’s like a brother to me. And I know what a fighter he is and how unstoppable he is. And then to hear about the accident, my head’s hanging and I’m just at the lowest and I just want to find him and fix him,” he said. But then “25 hours later, I’ve got tears in my eyes because I’m laughing at his video of him in a hospital swearing at me.”
“It’s just what he does. He cares about everybody else….
