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The Hilarious Reason Jeremy Renner Turned Down a Role in ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. When you're an actor
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Speaker 1: in an action franchise, be it film or TV, particularly
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Speaker 1: a supporting actor, you run the risk of them eventually
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Speaker 1: killing your character off. But Jeremy Renner realized there's one
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Speaker 1: way to avoid that from happening, simply turn down the gig.
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Speaker 1: The Evengers star worked alongside Tom Cruise in two Mission
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Speaker 1: Impossible films, twenty eleven's Ghost Protocol and twenty fifteen's Rogue Nation,
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Speaker 1: playing I Am f agent William Brandt, and was actually
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Speaker 1: invited to start again in twenty eighteen's Fallout, but there
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Speaker 1: was a catch. Agent Brant would not survive the film,
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Speaker 1: Jeremy tells the Happy, Sad Confused podcast. I remember they
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Speaker 1: tried to bring me overseas for a week just so
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Speaker 1: they could kill my character. I was like, no, you
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Speaker 1: don't get to do that. You're not kind to drag
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Speaker 1: me over there and just kill my character. If you're
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Speaker 1: gonna do this and you're gonna use my character, you
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Speaker 1: can do it right now. Rumors that Jeremy will appear
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Speaker 1: in another upcoming Mission Impossible, so he might be honest
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Speaker 1: something that's direct from Hollywood