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Jeremy Renner on Surviving His Accident and Returning as Hawkeye | SpaceCon San Antonio 2025
Nov 1, 2025
Recorded live at SpaceCon San Antonio on October 25, 2025. Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye in the MCU, Mike McLusky in Mayor of Kingstown) sits down with fans for a full Q&A.
Renner looks back at 28 Weeks Later, calling it his first step into horror and talking about shooting in London and bonding with the cast. He goes deep on The Hurt Locker — training with real bomb techs on the Iraq border, filming in extreme heat in full bomb gear, getting shot at with no ammo of his own, and watching Kathryn Bigelow become the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director.
He breaks down Mission: Impossible with Tom Cruise: hanging out of buildings, treating stunt work like pro-level physical prep, and why running on camera is way more dangerous than people think.
Renner then shifts to the MCU. He talks about Clint Barton’s opening scene in Avengers: Endgame (his family being snapped away), the Ronin turn, and Clint’s grief. He explains how the Soul Stone scene on Vormir with Natasha/Black Widow was first shot as a huge alien battle, then reshot to make it personal and emotional. He also talks about finally getting to play Clint as a dad in Hawkeye, working opposite Hailee Steinfeld, and filming that Christmas-set series during peak COVID restrictions.
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and make some noise for Johnny Rena. [Applause]
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Keep it going. Keep it going.
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[Applause] school or something.
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Is this bothering you? Whatever Hawkeye wants, Hawkeye gets my
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motto. [Applause]
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Um, we are thrilled you are here with us today. um can't wait to get into some of
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these uh topics that we're going to talk about your your work, your your work in philanthropy. Um anything else that
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you've been doing, but uh first, please let everybody know how much you've been enjoying your time here in San Antonio.
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Yeah, it's good to be good to be here, man. It's it's always, you know, I love these things to engage with, you know,
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real fans and people that really have something in common. It's it's always it's always a great treat for me. So,
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you guys know I feel great so far. being very kind. I appreciate sharing your kindness and thought
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[Music] probably like you know when you're Avenger
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[Applause] all your Avenger friends are just as busy as you are. So you're never going
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to see him but we got a few of them here today. So excited
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to call. It's so cool to uh be able to screen. I haven't seen him since the
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incident or accident, whatever you want to call it. But so, um, it's been a minute. So, it's nice to see my friends.
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You also need to reunite with Clark. Clark's here as well. What happened? You need to reunite Clark. Yeah.
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I don't know anything. I'm hiding behind a curtain and you guys come in. You let him know. I want to go see Clark
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as soon as we're done here. I'm not walking the floor. Typically,
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all right. You got a ton of things we need to talk about. So, first off, I'm going to be a little bit selfish here
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and talk about one of my favorite project singers, 28 Weeks Later. Any fans?
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Let's go back cuz I'm I'm a huge zombie fan. Uh, and I love 28 Weeks Later. The
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story was so unique because the military was just as dangerous or more so than The Infected in that movie. Uh, what are
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some of your fondest memories working on that project? Um, that's you that's a great franchise,
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right? It's I I love that. It's my first sort of foray into like I guess horror
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if you will, but um I like it's pretty, you know, very high high brow sort of storytelling. Very kind of realistic in
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this narrative. Uh my favorite memories are like Harold Parano and I became very good friends and our families are very
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close since then. It was a long time ago like 2006 I think seven when we shot it.
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Um, but yeah, it's like I got to shoot that in London and uh go kill zombies
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for it. That's awesome. I wouldn't mind seeing you do it again
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sometime. Well, you know, it's got to be in that can't be that character, right? Not be that one. Not to spoil it, but it's the movie's
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been around a while. If you haven't seen it by now, I die in it. Okay. In a very fiery way.
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A heroic way. All right. Any any other fans of that one here?
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It sounds like can't swear.
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All right. A lot of folks here want to talk about the Her Locker. Any fans?
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The Her Locker seemed like a big turning point in your career. It earned you your first Oscar nomination. Uh what was the
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psychological toll of inhabiting a soldier addicted to sort of the chaos of war? And can you describe yourself how
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you prepared to tell such a authentic story for an individual station in
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conflict in the Middle East? Yeah, that's that was a big learning for for me. I I spent a year and a half or
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so at Fort Berlin. Um they called the Santa's workshop and it's where you build bombs and then you render them
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safe. There's two lines and these guys are building them and these people over here on this side of the the alley kind
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of like horse stalls, you know, and they're running all the state. Um it was
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it was an interesting um great gift really to kind of be welcomed into
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someone's job. Uh and the job happens to be a pretty important one. Um, and you realize, you know, all these all these
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guys that are sort of in the military, these are not guys that are typ they're more like um strong in their brain than
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they are by broad. Like most of them are like kind of like school teachers I found, you know, kind of like nerdy like
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weird, you know, small looking frail guys. I'm just kind of like me, I suppose. But um they do like the most
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dangerous crazy job. And it was it was great to to really get into their head and understanding of who they are, why
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they do what they do, what they do, and then go into combat and what that's about. And we were filming that film
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during combat when we were in the Iraq war and we were filming on the border of Iraq, so it was more real than I needed
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to be. Um, but we were just actors. We had no bullets and we were getting shot
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at. So that sucked. Um kind of wish just give me a grenade or something so I can
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protect myself. But there's really um and also the conditions you know you
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realize it gets hot here in Texas right but it's it's you know it's a buck 35
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there you know I don't know if the weight gets buck 35 here and 100 lb bombsuit. So I remember like we had you
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know we as eight happens we put on makeup we used to throw our hands in the sand. Just do that and we're we're
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camera ready. Good to go. So So what you're saying is Hollywood is not all glitz and blown.
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There's nothing. No, no, no, no, no. Also, if you want to get away from the flies, just go to um where all the food
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is cuz flies go buy the food. So that's how we fly free. The
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fact that that's a problem that you guys had on set blows my mind. Yeah. There's no glamour or glamour in
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this, but you know the u there's a lot of glory that came from it and that that movie means so much I think to so many
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people but especially Katherine Bolo that's the first female director to ever win the Academy Award for best director
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right and really deserved and it happened to
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be that year against her husband who did Avatar the biggest worsting movie of all time and we were like the lowest Academy
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Award nominated movie of all time and she one and I love it. I love it. That's
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a better film anyway than myself.
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James hasn't guy's got enough. He doesn't need anymore. That's right. That's right.
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Uh let's talk about the Mission Mission Impossible franchise.
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[Applause] Uh you've been a part of a handful of
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those films. What was it like stepping into such a high octane global franchise? And and what did you take
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away from working alongside a legend like Tom Cruz? Yeah, Tom. Yeah, that was um I mean
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those movies are just cool. Anyway, um it's it's it's not as fantasy as like
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say a Marvel movie or any of those, but it's it feels so fantasy like we're like
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in the first Khalifa for um the Coast Protocol. Swinging around that building like like
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crazy, man. And uh he he taught me how to uh approach action films. This is
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really in my sort of action for career. Um how to approach it like a like a professional athlete in sport and
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preparation of your body cuz you do have to prepare physically very intensely so
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you don't get injured. I think the most dangerous thing that we could ever do on film is just running because you can
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roll your ankle pretty easy and then you get in you're shutting down production just by running. um everything else is
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very prepared for you for can you sort of um situation but it was
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a great he's a great guy uh to and guy to have a mentor to show you sort of the
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the road system world for sure. Okay, so speaking of running uh Tom is
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the joke is that he's just the best like onscreen runner in the history. Like what is it about Tom and his form? Did
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he tell you anything about that or what is it that that makes him so like all
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inspiring when he's running down? Yeah, I don't I don't think it's just about the the the running, you know. I get it like he does run like in pretty
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much every everybody. Yeah, but for that it's it's sort of his
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his um drive. He's got a strong drive to want to entertain and keep things exciting and whatever it might be. If
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running isn't is exciting then he's going to run. But, you know, if it's it's not appropriate, like if he was
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doing a scene with me and he just started sprinting and like I took that trick from himself. I'm like, I'm not running after you. It's not going to
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happen. Especially now, certainly not going to happen. But now he cares about really entertaining audiences and cares
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about that and like we had to do I think a wedding scene together in that in Ghost Protocol, I think, or one of the
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two. And uh so we're spinning alongside each other and headed but I remember we
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have to it's not going as fast as as you think it is. So we have to look like we're running fast and it's going slow
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cuz the ground is really uneven and you know pretty dangerous for us to get injured. So we had to really just look
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like we're running fast but really like this, you know, we're not going very fast at all. Movie magic.
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Movie magic. Movie magic. Movie magic. Uh can we talk about this uh small role that you had over the last
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decade or so called uh Hawkeye? Oh yes,
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I don't die on that one. I think they I think they're fans of
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your your work as Hawkeye. Um let's let's stick with a couple of uh more recent projects in the MCU. So the
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opening scene of Endgame one of my all-time favorites uh in the MCU, if not
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just like cinema. Uh Clint goes through this dark phase as uh Ronin. Uh you lost
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your family, your wife and kids in that opening sequence, and let me tell you,
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I've watched thousands of movies with live audience. I don't think I've ever heard an audience response to Clint
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turning and not seeing his daughter uh when she gets snapped away.
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Like the gas, the jaws, you heard everybody's jaw hit the floor and that was uh truly just a great moment. Uh
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Clint was also you were also portraying a a griefstricken, morally ambiguous
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version of him. Um, can you shed some light on just that whole creative
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process of getting through that mindset of Clint losing his family and going on this sort of vigilante run?
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Yeah, you know, that's that that scene was supposed to be at the end of what was one before
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Infinity War. Infinity War. I wasn't it, but it was supposed to be at the end of it.
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There was supposed to be at the end of Infinity War and then and it goes into Ronin lands, I suppose. But then instead
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of saying it didn't work but just bookend this whole thing with a lot of things happen in endgame you guys a lot
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of things remind myself. So yeah, Ronan. Yes. So Ronan comes into play because of what
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happened family and yeah. Okay. It's 2017 2018.
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That haircut, right? Different haircut going on. It's a great haircut, right? It's uh Yeah, I love the idea. There
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wasn't there's only one scene we had we could show that we showed with, you know, the Ronin. So it had to come in with a lot of force. That work really
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tremendous legend. um actor in that scene, but it's just sort of
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Yeah. Yeah. It's just kind of the tail end of, you know, the the run and run of just
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sort of vengeance. Um being reactive to what's happened instead of being, you
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know, the you know, the sort of the dark side of of garden is just one, right? Instead of light side being heroic. Um
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that's how I sort of play it. Still the same person. It's just in a different costume and it's expressing a negative
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side of him. It's just, you know, he's he's only killing bad guys still, but he's still just killing, right? Just to
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kill. So, just not the right way that sort of justified. And um that's when
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Scarlet steps in. She's like, "What are you doing? Let's come back to this side. Let's get some stuff done." Um but it's,
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you know, it's a lot going on in that movie, man. It's a lot. It's a lot going on. Speaking of uh Scarlet, the most
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emotional moment of the film by far is the mission to obtain the soul stone on Formir with Natasha. Uh the scene was
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obviously uh crafted to perfection. Uh but what was your sort of first reaction on reading the script on how it would
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all go down and and what did those scenes in Endgame mean to you personally? Yeah, that you don't really
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kind of notice stuff going right straight away, but then there's whisperings of it and then the scene is
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written and then you're like, "Okay, then we shot the scene." That scene's not in the movie. It's It's a very
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different scene. It's much more galactic and more aliens and a lot of more stuff
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going on. Um, and then we reshot it to make it much simpler to the scene that's
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in the movie now. It was much more emotional, much more impactful, I think. It's heartbreaking.
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It's heartbreaking to do that scene. It was um a celebration also like you know
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it's like saying goodbye to somebody and saying you know it's like there's 22 films before this that made this scene
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happen right so there's such a great kind of celebration as well as it's very
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emotional like you know it's like you know it was like I think it was Scarlet's one of the last scenes anyway
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pretty emotional time a lot of lot of years have gone by and um shared stories
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and life shared so it It was uh I don't know it was pretty real real enough for
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us to kind of feel it in that scene. That was it was beautiful to share with her and we loved it. Right.
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We're not done with Hawkeye yet. After that came the Hawkeye series. Any fans?
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The series brought together a stellar cast during the holidays. Verifa, Tony Dalton, who I absolutely love, Vinton
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Denafrio, Laco Cox, and of course your protege, Hayes Steinfeld. Anybody know
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Harris? Um, what are some of your fondest
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memories on working on that project? Um, the cast for sure. I mean, we shot
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this during, you know, the height of CO, too, so it was pretty tricky. Everyone was like in 3 m, 25 ft apart. like it
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was like super it was weird. Um, but you know the actors and I see we asked
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actors and you know we wrote to some people a lot. I don't know anybody else actually was on the show cuz it was like
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hidden but it was great to you know I the script like when I saw the the
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opening like the the Avengers musical thing I'm like oh this is great show already that set New York at
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Christmas is kind of no better setting. Uh I love the family element to it. We
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got to spend a little bit more time with Clint being the dad. You know, he's kind of the dad of the Marvel universe in a
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lot of ways. Anyway, so crowning rod for why we fight for what we fight for anyway. Um, it was nice to be able to
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explore that. It was tough to in all the adventure films to kind of get into a
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lot of that, to touch on it. It was great to really explore that with family and um I enjoyed it. There's great sense
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of humor to it. Good action. I I love you, man. We're going to go back to it again.
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We got a ton of fan questions. First one comes from Jake Welch. Jake, where you have a friend?
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Too many people here. I can't see him. [Music] Uh, but this goes this kind of goes
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along with the series. Yes. Yeah. Jake wants to know, um, how was it working with Haley on the set of H? Uh
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she's she was so great. Um it kind of the kind of the relationship that we had
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off camera was similar to the setup of how it was on camera. But um as far as
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like being sort of she knew so long and kind of come in just just kind of give her some hints and tips to spend some
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time in the gym and stuff people do all the things we need to do. And she's great man. She's a hard worker and she's
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so charming. She's lovely to work with. She's the best. I love her. And she's so talented. Like if we didn't
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already know it on your series, like she's gone on to do sinners and a number of other things and she's just incredible. Yeah, she's always been great. She's
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been great since she she's a child. We have another question here from Alexandra. I'm assuming there's probably
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multiple Alexanders who have questions. Uh but what Oh, right here. Second. Uh
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what was the hardest scene for you to film in life? In my career.
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Career. It's a long Oh my goodness. What it is?
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Um, well, the one that bought me out was didn't have to do much besides not die.
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And it was the worst scene where I had to hang out the window and hang on to Tom's foot. Um, it was
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it was only difficult because I didn't trust the guy holding me.
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This is on a stone, right? And I'm like sliding out of this window. I could have
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made 10 phone calls before he hit the ground. And I blame the guy that was holding me.
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He didn't hold me very well. I'm about to hit the ground about, you know, a couple minutes. But, uh, yeah, it was
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was the most Well, also cuz everyone's like tied to something because the windows taken out of this. You're like a
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mile high in the air and then there's a vacuum of of wind that kind of sucks you out anyway. And I'm slack on a tile
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floor. So, I'm just getting sucked out as we go. Anyway, and the guy was on his
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phone just holding one of the ropes like no like dude.
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He's playing Angry Bird or something. I'm like right now.
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[Applause] Got a question here from Omar. Omar, where you at, sir? Right over here. Omar
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wants to know, uh, what is your funniest moment while working on set?
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I mean that it's funny now what I just said, but it's not funny then.
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Uh oh, I don't know, man. There's I mean I feel like there's fun at every turn.
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Even like a heavy show here at Kingtown, you know, we always find joy in
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that fun. I came here for a living, right? So every day was fun. Um, some
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scenes aren't as, you know, as fun or light or whatever, but you always I always find joy and I always remind
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myself that I play make believe for a living like like I'm an 8-year-old on a playground. Every day is fun. But you do
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so well.
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Uh, no question here, but it uh is regarding your film Arrival. Any fans of
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Arrival?
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In the film Arrival, Amy's character asks you, "If you could see your whole life from start to finish, what would
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you what things would you change?" Your character replies, "I'd say what I feel
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more often." Do you agree? And uh would your answer be different?
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Well, I mean, ironically, I I that did happen to me. Um
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and I think the outcome of it is just that is I I do I find myself um
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you know having a near-death experience coming back and being more connected, being more open, being more vulnerable
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and um it is the most freeing, glorious uh love that I could share with myself,
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my daughter, my family and the whole island.
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So happy to be here. We are too.
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So you you've actually written a memoir about it. Yes. I started it. We're all
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We're all going to either buy a copy today or go listen to the audio book, right, guys?
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Um, this question is kind of about that after your accident, how did you find
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the strength to keep going in? How do you think fans could despite the hurdles in their own lives? This is from
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Destiny. Destiny, where are you? Um, yeah, those are things I try to explore.
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Um, there's no easy answer to it. I feel like there's a, you know, first and
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foremost for me personally, there was a lot to live for, even though I didn't want to come back. There was actually a
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lot to live for. Um, uh, my family, my daughter, all these
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things. And then you realize there's a lot of love. There's a lot, you know, prayers for you as I was in a coma.
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Didn't know, but then it became some global sort of news stories. It's like it just happened in my driveway, my
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nephew. uh was me against the snowcat and I lost
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and uh but to to define the strength I think it requires it required a village
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and required so much it required my own strength with my own reasons to to live
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survive but you know there's other things that were at play that helped me
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along probably 150 people just on the day of the accident to get me to survive from the EM teams to the the helicopter
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pilots to all the trauma nurses and ICU doctors and I mean there's just an army
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of people to get me to not die. Okay. So the strength is is
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I feel like it was given me by a bunch of people and I guess it wasn't that
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time ago. So it was my
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my dream to do better for all those that didn't let me go. So I uh do the best I
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can with every moment and every breath and every step to have a great purposeful intended life. um to give as
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all and everything I can.
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um starting the book and uh hearing about you describe some of the the
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elements of the entire ordeal, I feel like it gave you a chance and it
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was really also your own willpower after that to kind of come back and be
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kind of um as close to yourself as possible. seeing you here now, hearing you talk
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and everything else, I would never know that had gone on. And I think they they
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gave you an amazing opportunity and it was a miraculous situation, but also um
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the long recovery process after that. I think that's all you man. I don't know how anybody else
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there's there's, you know, the recovery, you know, because it's not it's not there's a ripple effect. This is something that happens, right? Uh, and a
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lot of people can relate to to adversity. A lot of people can relate to obstacles because we're always going to
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have those in our lives. And how we choose to overcome our own personal obstacles will determine how much more
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room and space we make for joy and love and happiness, right? But we're all going to have some sort of suffering and
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we're all going to have these obstacles in our lives and how we choose to deal with them is really, really important. So, and I think that it's not about, you
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know, an injury so much to, but you know, there's I had like I focused on my
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family getting better cuz I saw the horror look on their faces when they
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look at me with my eyeball duct tape inside my head. I mean, it's terrible, right? But what can I do to relieve them
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of this of this terrible feeling? Cuz they're feeling it, too. I wouldn't want to be in their position. So, I relieve
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myself and trying to get better for me. It's like I have to be better for them. And so it was easy cuz there's a one-way
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street. Either get better or what's the alternative? Suffer? No. Right.
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Complain. I I just had to get better every day. Now, I wasn't like trying to like I'm going to walk the next moment,
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but maybe I just move my elbow a little bit more. It's like I I set sort of intended milestones for myself just to
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like keep going and stay positive. If you don't stay positive, I don't stay moving forward. what's going to happen?
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No matter how many people love me, they're not going to fix me. I have to.
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So, it was kind of easy just setting the course for there's no going back. There's only one way to do getting that
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thing better for my family.
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And sometimes I have to remind myself that right I got tested to my limits but
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in doing so there's been great great superpower gifts that came to me for it
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and you know if people can relate to it which you know I hope they can take something from it. Uh they won't have to
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get tested like I was to get some of the gifts and that's kind of why I think we could help with that. Do you
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guys take any away from what you just said? [Music]
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We have another question from Hannah from Dallas, Texas. Hannah, where you at? Dallas back there. Uh, number one, she
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says you're her favorite cuz I'm here. [Music]
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Uh, number two, she says, "What's the best piece of advice you've ever been given, and how has that advice shaped
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your life or career?" Ah, well the piece of advice actually made
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me made m made me find my career. My dad when I was going to college I couldn't
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afford the nor my mom going to get me to go to Berkeley or some of the schools I
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was getting that I was allowed to go to. Um and also didn't know what I was going
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to study. And so I I said to my dad, I don't want to go into student debt and pay for all this money and not know what
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I'm paying for. Hand everything, but he just allowed me to like just try stuff that I wasn't interested in or didn't
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know and just try it. And it's okay to go suck at it, you know, just go try things, man. Who cares? Or just go try
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things really care. So I did. I took not only nine units at the ACS, I took 26
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units at at the local junior college. And one of the courses was uh an acting
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class. I knew nothing about acting, like zero. Um I was I was watching a show called Family Ties or whatever I was
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watching in the 80s ' 90s, right? And uh I took the Force and then I fell in love
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with it and then you know chose acting as a career and it kind of worked out all right.
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[Applause]
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I think I think more parents of uh this sort of era or this generation also need
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to kind of hear that because there's so much pressure these days. Yeah. To either be something, have a
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plan, you know, have future things involved in your life, but not too often
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do you hear something like just try something out, see what happens. Right. Right. It allows you to kind of find yourself, right? That's a
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confidence too, right? The most confidence I got out of finding that on my own. He was very surprised, by the
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way, when I told him, "I found what I'm going to do for the rest of my life." He's like, "Get out of here. You're only
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18." I'm like, "I promise you." And uh yeah, but it's also too like the
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idea of or failures. Like my greatest successes are all my failures. All the things I failed at, those were the
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greatest things that happened in my life. It's not like winning something, not succeeding at something. Um the
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greatest life is all this failure is great. Nobody clap for that.
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All right, this might take you back a little bit. Rob, where you at? Rob over here in the orange. Uh, has all of your
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success made up for going to the second best high school in Modesto?
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# Davis. The fact that you waited this long to
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like ask this question and keep this rivalry going is epic. Legend.
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Yeah. Davis High School. Yeah.
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I don't know. Back in high school. 1989.
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Yeah. What about class of 89? Class of 89. Yeah. Yeah.
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That's hilarious. Legends are legends. Uh let's see here. You've had a number
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of uh fancy arrows as Hawkeye. Is there a personal fate of yours that you have?
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Well, we got to explore a lot of those in series and not so much we did some of
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them in um in the Avengers films, but we got to explore a lot of fun ones in uh
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in the series. And I thought like, oh, I didn't get really really creative with these. Um it's a favorite one.
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Um just cuz Elizabeth is here. I think maybe the one I use on her.
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That's when you use my hand, right? When you Yeah. Yeah. Pull it out. Yeah.
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Sorry, girl. [Music] Uh, this one's from I'm going to say it
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wrong. I'm sorry. Uh, Toddiana Clark to Clark.
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Uh, how good have you gotten at archery in real life? Hey, you know, it's it's
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ironic. I got actually really good and then it you could use none of these skills in um in any of the movies. Uh
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it's like real archery does not allow for, you know, for for Hawkeye succeed.
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It's too slow. Uh you can't shoot multiple arrows and um but uh the the
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skill set is actually really really great and I'm I'm able to use it. I teach kids at camps that I have. And um
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so it's still really cool skill set. It just doesn't work just in superhero archery.
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And you can't shoot arrows anyway cuz it's got to go somewhere. And I'd be killing a whole lot of crew members
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[Applause] just for my closeup. So it's all CGI as I'm pulling out,
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right? It always looks so um effortless because it is all CGI. So, you're just sometimes
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there. I remember in the first Avengers, you're talking to somebody and you're just keep going and you're just looking
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around and it's like he's not even trying or those aren't real or something. But yeah, there you go.
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Hollywood magic. Or if they're real heroes, you see all these people dying.
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[Music] Uh you brought up the camps and I think that's a great place to go next because
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uh you sir you have your own foundation and I think everybody here would love to learn about
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Yeah. about what you've been doing. Yeah. The opportunity it's always
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something I've been wanting to do ever since Endgame came out. That's when um kids I was dropping off my daughter who
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was five at the time in kindergarten class for the first time and at the
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school in Endgame had just came out and I dropped her off very nervously
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in the little trailer and I came down the trailer and people were screaming that's J like
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sevenyear-olds on this little campus and they know my first and last name so weird and then like 30 kids come running
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at me in cell phones like zombies I'm like oh my god God, this is terrifying. Jerry R. Jerry R. like what?
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I said I grabbed the oldest kid like get her number one sub like get back in the classroom before the second bill. I'm
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going to get locked on campus. They said and I I went home and I was like so freaked out like why all these little
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kids say my first and last name. Maybe maybe Hawkeye they would say you think, right? And now they're saying my first
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and last name. Strange. But then I realized there's there's a real I didn't like
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being a celebrity prior, but being a celebrity to kids was the coolest thing
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ever. I realized there was a huge weight that was lifted off my shoulders. I'm like, "Wow, that was really the coolest
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thing ever." And ever since then, I know having access to kids, being the oldest
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of seven in my own family and birthing a couple and have my own and it's it's
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just the coolest thing ever. So then um my sister works for DCFS, childhood services, uh in LA County and my my best
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girlfriends does it in Nevada. So I've been around foster kids for you know a decade or so. And I really hated the the
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narrative and the stories that were happening to these kids. And I was really really angry what was happening
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to them. And instead of getting angry and wanting to to hurt people that were hurting these kids, uh I decided to do
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something instead of being reactive, wanting to be proactive and started a foundation to give them opportunities,
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the love, the kindness, and even some of them as they age out of foster care, uh some housing and vehicles, some
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wraparound services with financial literacy, uh just to, you know, some mentorship, things like that to to um
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move the needle along and pave the way for some of these kids that have been marginalized and set aside. and uh I love them to death. 400,000
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kids in the foster care system today and I intend to reach each and every one of
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them
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and it does.
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That's remarkable. I love hearing this. Truly truly. Yeah. My whole family gets involved, too. So it makes it like something that
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we can all do together. So there's real, you know, vast. This is like something I'll be doing for the rest of my life.
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So um it's an honor and blessing to do so and I'm really glad to do it with my family. My daughter gets involved. She
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wants to be a counselor. It's really really great. I'm blessed to be able to work. And because we are all moved by your
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work and your philanthropy, where can every single one of these folks find out more about it and how can they assist?
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Oh wow. I mean, uh, there's a renovation foundation, you know, on Instagram and things you can follow and you want to
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come uh help out. It's always great. I always love volunteers. That's we get a lot of showing at every event we come go
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to. Um, but always love uh volunteers and assistants. It's the greatest thing ever.
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You're also a musician. You do music? Yeah. Sandra Jones. Where are you, Sandra?
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She's standing up waiting. I think she would like to know, are you going to make another music album?
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Uh, yes. Yes, of course. I'll always make music. Um, it's just the the time, you know, time, even though it's a human
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construct, I still human. I got to live by it. And when I healed, I got to do
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other things first and then um I'll find time for it. It's a huge part of my life. Uh, and it always will be.
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Speaking of singing, do you have a go-to favorite karaoke song? This is from
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Karina. Karina, where are you at? She's over there. Hello.
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I did that. Thank you so much. Mine was a good one. I did that a lot.
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Joel and Queen a lot of
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That's well easy. Hey
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Billy, it's funny. Billy was here literally a year ago uh in town performing and he still got it. He's
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awesome. He's incredible. And he's like up and dancing. I'm like, I don't think he knows how old he is.
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You're not supposed to move like that at that age. Uh, final question about some
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of your other work. You have a new season, season 4 premiere of Mayor of
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Kingtown. Any fans?
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Bro, the premiere is tomorrow. What can you share with us about the new season? Yeah, it starts tomorrow.
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I just watched some of the scenes on the way over here um cuz in New York doing press for this week and um yeah, it is
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it is something. It's it's an intense show. It's not it's not for everyone. It's not for the youth, but it's um it's
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it's terrific this season. Um very very excited. Got some new characters, new
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Falco. um you know she's terrific actress. She's new to it, but it uh it's
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an intense season. Um you're not going to want to miss a moment. So if you get to go to the restroom, hit a pause on
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it. Um because two minutes every turn something's on the line. It's a it's a
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it's a book and be a pain for sure. I love it. You guys ready for tomorrow?
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[Applause]
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We are just about out of time, but all these beautiful faces are going to come see you at your table, I'm sure. And the
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last thing I want to say is you are an award-winning actor, producer, musician, but most importantly, you sir, you sir
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are a beacon of hope. Uh your story is one resilience, a true depiction of human spirit. We thank you for sharing
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your story with us and know that I feel your legacy will continue to inspire
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many. San Antonio
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