Jeremy Renner Is Writing Music Inspired By His Near-Death Snowplow Accident

Jeremy Renner announced that he would continue his music career with an original collection of songs.

“A collection of music we wrote about different milestones in my journey of recovery since Jan 1st this year. ‘Love and Titanium’ has been painful, deeply healing, and ultimately cathartic for me to create,” he wrote on social media. “I hope I get the courage to share with you all.”

Renner’s post showed an image of the album art, which was also accompanied by the word “soon.” He did not announce any other release plans.

These songs were inspired by the snowplow incident that he faced on January 1 and the recovery process which he endured afterwards. The title of the collection, Love and Titanium, is a reference to how Renner described his recovery during interviews.

Renner released the rock song “Heaven Don’t Have a Name” in 2019, and his EP “The Medicine” in 2020.

Despite suffering injuries like eight ribs broken in 14 places and a broken left ankle, Renner made it clear this March that he would not be held back by his accident.

“I chose to survive. That’s not gonna kill me, no way,” Renner told ABC News. “I’ve lost a lot of flesh and bone in this experience, but I’ve been refueled and refilled with love and titanium.”

Renner kept using social media in the following months to update his fans on how his recovery and substantial physical therapy were coming along.

On October 23, Renner discussed his recovery from the injuries he sustained from the incident, as well as how the experience changed everything for him.

“I just feel very blessed and very lucky to be upright and walk around and to live life,” Renner told CNN. “I’m very, very clear. My life is really lean, if that makes sense. There’s no fat in my life anymore. I don’t have time for that. So, there’s something really beautiful about having that superpower.”

“Perseverance. Strength. It’s all a mental game,” he added. “I put it in my back pocket now. I know how to deal with pain. It’s all my mind. It’s all in the mind. If you can sift through the fog of it all, I am very blessed.”

In 2017, Renner sat down with uInterview for an exclusive interview about his latest film, Wind River.

Written and directed by Taylor Sheridan, the neo-Western thriller sees Renner as Cory Lambert, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tracker who teams up with an FBI agent (Olsen) to solve the murder of a young woman who was sexually assaulted on an Indian reservation in Wyoming.

Renner praised Olsen for several reasons. “She’s such a trooper,” he said. “She did a lot of gun training and all of these wonderful things, so I was really impressed with how much dedication and time she spent to make the character really believable. She crossed all our t’s and dotted all our i’s. She was on point.”

He also added that, given that the film mainly revolves around his character and Olsen’s, that the setting was more “intimate” than it was when they collaborated on Avengers: Age of Ultron. 

“I was really attracted to the writing, and the landscape, but also just dealing with loss, unflappability and strength,” Renner added about making the film.