Jeremy Renner has revealed he is doing the final edit on his book about lessons learned through his near fatal snowplow accident, in a conversation at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival.
“I’m writing a book about it right now. I’ve actually, this whole trip, been doing the final edit on it,” he said. “So, it’s all kind of fresh in my brain, because I try to push it away a lot of times.
“There’s so many wonderful gifts that come from being tested to your limits of death, because I did die, and I came back, and I came back for a reason.”
The Hurt Locker and Avengers: Endgame star, who is in Saudi Arabia for the first time, praised the country’s progress in building a film industry in the wake of the lifting of its 35-year cinema in 2017.
“It’s pretty exciting. It on the the precipice of a big, big shift here. I think there’s supposed to be 2,500 screens in the next five years, by 2030, that’s huge, huge,” he said.
“If any country can kind of do that, move that fast, move the needle that fast. I think it’s Saudi Arabia,” he added, to applause from the mainly local crowd in the room. “I’m pretty excited to see what happens here.”
Although Renner is visiting Saudi Arabia for the first time, he is no stranger to the Middle East, having shot The Hurt Locker in Jordan and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol in the United Arab Emirates.
He is is among a raft of stars attending the event’s fourth edition alongside Michael Mann, Michael Douglas, Michelle Yeoh, Catherine Zeta–Jones, Eva Longoria, Andrew Garfield, Cynthia Erivo and Sarah Jessica Parker.
