#mayorofkingstown

„I guess only the sense of trying to keep peace. Maybe the ferocity in the morality, in the code of it all. One’s done in tights and a bow and arrow, and the other one’s done in an ill-fit suit. I think the intentions are always good for both characters of trying to do what’s right and trying to keep peace. I think that would be the through-line.“

- Jeremy Renner on what his characters Mike McLusky and Clint Barton have in common [x]

„I have my own obstacles and difficulties of loss in my own life, but I don’t really draw upon that when I’m working. I think those things taught me how to manage and deal with losses, death, or failures, and that obviously goes into characters, but I don’t ever think about anything bad that happened in my life when I am acting - it’s more about a sort of inward emotional processing and mental toughness. Some characters are kind of more of a coiled spring, and I really like that - when you’re not quite sure if this guy could be dangerous.” [x]

- Jeremy Renner for Flaunt Magazine (2021)

„I don’t think there is light without the dark. A truth doesn’t exist without a lie, you know? My job is always to look at other people’s perspectives, and in general, I always try to remain very, very hopeful about even the bleakest situation. It’s coming through darkness or hardships or failures in life, where successes become real success.” [x]

- Jeremy Renner for Flaunt Magazine (2021)

“Some people just know me as Hawkeye. Some people go a little deeper.”[x]

- Jeremy Renner for The New York Times (2021)

“‘Hawkeye‘ is sweet, light fare. There’s some heaviness to it, don’t get me wrong. But comparatively, ‚Mayor of Kingstown‘ is going to hit people with a hammer.” [x]

Jeremy Renner for The New York Times (2021)

“This character is an interesting anti-hero, but it’s complicated, he’s a complicated character. He comes from the basic principles that I admire. I admire the selflessness in a job and I love the decisions he makes and doesn’t make, he’s a complicated character in a complicated world and there couldn’t be something more interesting for me to play than that.“

- Jeremy Renner [x]

Via Paramount Plus:

Holding this town together is a family business. Meet the McLusky brothers in Mayor Of Kingstown, streaming tomorrow.

“[I] didn’t realize it until about halfway through Mayor of Kingstown … I am like, ‘Oh my God, I was just in this sort of Christmas vibe in New York’ [filming Hawkeye] and it’s like oh my gosh, this is really heavy. I think the idea that the Hawkeye thing actually really helped me, just helped transition the set vibe, if you will, to be a little bit lighter. I don’t know how you can crack jokes on a set like Mayor of Kingstown, but somehow, some way I did and we had actually a really good time shooting it.”

- Jeremy Renner on how Hawkeye helped him prepare for his role in MoK

„We get paid to give advice, so let me give you some. Wherever you’re from, you should go back. You won’t make it here.”

- Mike McLusky