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India Today
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- India Today
Actor Jeremy Renner on 'exhilarating' near-death moment: Didn't want to come back
Actor Jeremy Renner recently recalled his experience following a near-fatal accident at his Nevada home in 2023. While speaking about being revived from the near-death encounter, he said that he "didn't want to come back." Renner described the experience as peaceful, calling it "the highest adrenaline rush."The actor, in a recent episode of Kelly Ripa's Let's Talk podcast, said, "It's a great relief is all I can say. It's a wonderful, wonderful relief to be removed from your body. It is the most exhilarating peace you could ever feel. You don't see anything but what's in your mind's eye. Like, you're the atom of who you are, the DNA, your spirit. It's the highest adrenaline rush, but the peace that comes with it, it's magnificent. It's so magical."advertisementHe further said, "It was so all-encompassing that it was hard to part ways with it when he was resuscitated. And I didn't want to come back. I remember, and I was brought back, and I was so pissed off. I came back, I'm like, 'Aww!'" Renner concluded, "I saw the eyeball again. I'm like, 'Oh, s---, I'm back.' Saw my legs. I'm like, 'Yeah, that's gonna hurt later.' I'm like, 'All right, let me continue to breathe.'"The Hawkeye actor was run over by a snowplough at his Reno, Nevada home during a holiday. He was trying to prevent the vehicle from hitting his nephew on New Year's Day 2023. Renner was airlifted to the hospital and suffered severe injuries which included over 30-plus broken bones, a lacerated liver, and a collapsed actor is known for his roles in films such as The Hurt Locker (2008), Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011), The Bource Legacy (2012), The Avengers franchise and its spin-off show Hawkeye (2021).Renner's new film Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is currently under production.
The Hindu
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
Tom Cruise wants to make a Bollywood-style film in India: ‘I love the dancing, the singing'
Hollywood star Tom Cruise expressed his admiration for Indian cinema and culture and said he cannot wait to go back to India. Cruise, whose Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning has released in Indian theatres, said during the film's global promotions: 'I feel so much love for India. India is an amazing country, people, and culture. I have to say the whole experience has been etched in my memory. Every single moment. From the moment I landed, going to the Taj Mahal, and spending time in Mumbai —I remember each moment quite vividly.' Cruise had filmed parts of Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011) in Mumbai. Indian actor Anil Kapoor had a cameo in the film as media baron Brij Nath. Meanwhile, the Indian city of Bengaluru was re-created through sets in Vancouver in the film. During the promotional tour of Ghost Protocol, Cruise had also visited the Taj Mahal in Agra. Cruise said he loves Bollywood-style musicals and expressed his desire to make a film in India. 'I would love to go back to India and make a film there. I love Bollywood films, the skill that it takes you to do what you all do is so natural. I love it when in a scene someone suddenly breaks into a song. I love it. It's something that I have grown up watching—musicals from different countries. I love Bollywood movies. You can just break out into a song—it's so beautiful. I love the dancing, singing, the actors. That is such a unique experience and craftsmanship of the actors to be able to sing, dance, and act.' He doubled down on his wish to make a Bollywood-style film. He said, 'I cannot wait to go back to India. I have so many friends there. I have met such amazing people there. I would love to make a Bollywood-style movie. It would be so much fun and amazing to do that. I love the dancing and the singing—it would be so much fun to do that.' Cruise also re-created his line from Final Reckoning, 'I need you to trust me, one last time', in Hindi, saying, 'Mujh par bharosa karo, ek aakhri baar.'
New York Post
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Simon Pegg credits ‘Mission: Impossible' for saving him from depression and alcoholism
Simon Pegg credited this acting thriller for saving his life. The actor, 55, got candid on starring in six 'Mission: Impossible' movies alongside Tom Cruise, starting with 2006's 'Mission: Impossible III.' Pegg told Variety that in 'the apotheosis of my life ambitions, my dreams as a kid, a situation I'd never even thought I'd find myself in … being in Hollywood, where they made the films that I grew up loving.' Advertisement 7 Tom Cruise and Simon Pegg attend the Japan Premiere for the film 'Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning.' Keizo Mori/UPI/Shutterstock The actor also recalled being 'deeply unhappy' during that time. 'What I was ultimately dealing with was depression,' Pegg said, 'which I was trying to manage by anaesthetising myself. It was less of being alcoholic, more being dependent on the sensation.' Advertisement The comic reminisced on spending the first day on set with Cruise, 62, 'slightly hungover and feeling a little bit wired … I remember not being particularly present, because I was so inside my own head that it was hard to actually relax and enjoy it.' 7 Simon Pegg and Tom Cruise in 'Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.' ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection When Pegg made it back to the hotel, he went straight to the bar, which was a 'nihilistic, self-destructive impulse.' By the time 'Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol' rolled around in 2011, the English actor's character, Benji Dunn, was sent out to work in the field alongside Cruise's Ethan Hunt. The film's production understood Pegg was battling addiction and went out of their way to help support him on set. Advertisement 'They had a sober companion for me — and just really looked after me,' he told the outlet, highlighting the efforts of J.J. Abrams and Brad Bird. 7 Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames in 'Mission Impossible Fallout.' ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection / Everett Collection 'I felt very taken care of and felt valued, because they bothered to do that,' he said. Pegg also recounted Cruise telling him, 'You're going to get in shape for this film — you're an agent now!' Advertisement And that he did — having now been sober since 2010. 'I kind of found this joy in looking after myself and just realizing that if I ate well and went to the gym I could actually feel good,' Pegg confessed. 'So I credit 'Mission' with rescuing me — because it gave me real focus at a time when I needed focus. And I just had the best time on 'Ghost Protocol.'' 7 The cast of 'Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning.' ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection The release of 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning' is right around the corner, with Cruise and company coming back for one last hoorah. The movie will premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, which is currently underway. It also stars Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Nick Offerman, Angela Bassett, Esai Morales, Greg Tarzan Davis, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, and Hannah Waddingham. Looking back at filming all eight projects since 1996, Cruise told People, 'I will learn a skill, and I know eventually I'm going to use it in a movie.' 7 Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg. ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection One of those skills is dance, 'because I'm interested in that art form. The teachers understand how to move a body, what the shape does and the emotion it can create in others.' Advertisement Cruise never stops training, 'whether it's the piano or having more time to dance. Or parachuting or flying airplanes or helicopters. The wonderful thing is you're never there. It can always be better.' Although when it comes to learning the piano, the Oscar nominee shared, 'I wouldn't say 'play.' I enjoy hitting the keys… I find it relaxing.' 7 'Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.' ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection The last movie will capture the actor doing a variety of his own action-packed stunts, with the 'Top Gun' star revealing how he prepares for those scenes. Advertisement 'I actually eat a massive breakfast,' Cruise admitted. 'The amount of energy it takes — I train so hard for that wing-walking. I'll eat, like, sausage and almost a dozen eggs and bacon and toast and coffee and fluids. Oh, I'm eating! Picture: It's cold up there. We're at high altitude. My body is burning a lot.' Despite the hardcore routines it takes to bring Ethan Hunt to life, Cruise wouldn't have it any other way. 7 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.' ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection Advertisement He expressed he 'always' has moments of gratitude for filming. Cruise added, 'I love making movies. It's not what I do. It's who I am.'
