I wanted to do a profile of Jeremy Renner, the one-time roommate of Kristoffer Winter, who may or may not have dated my friend Infinite Chazz in West Hollywood. But there are problems: few nude photos, not much beefcake, and he's extremely homophobic.
Addressing the rumors that he's bisexual because he was living with a man and a woman, he cursed "they're not f*** true!" Same thing when he dumped both to move in with Kristoffer Winters, who may or may not have dated my friend Infinite Chazz in West Hollywood: "Believe whatever you f*king want!"
By the way, his favorite movie is the deeply homophobic Braveheart, which he's seen 35 times.
Jeremy will not be playing a gay character anytime soon -- God help the agent who suggests it! -- but oddly, there are obviously unintentional gay subtexts in some of his movies, beginning with the first, National Lampoon's Senior Trip, 1995: stoner Dags has a buddy.
And A Friend's Betrayal, 1996. He's not the one doing the betraying, but he does have a buddy, Brian Austin Green.
How about a fey vampire who preys on teenage boys in a 2000 episode of Angel?
Or a 2002 biopic of Jeffrey Dahmer, the serial killer who preyed on teenage boys? Why would the homophobic Jeremy accept such a role?
Jeremy gives us some rear nudity in Twelve and Holding, 2005: "A 12-year old boy and his friends face the harsh realities of death, teenage hormones, and family dysfunction." 100 to 1 the "hormones" mean the 12-year old gets down with a girl.
More nude Jeremy after the break
He shows us his butt again during his murder in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, 2007. There's a gay subtext between Jesse and Bob Ford, played by Brad Pitt and Casey Afflect, who are gay allies in real life.
In Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013), the candy-house siblings grow up into a pair of wisecracking, martial-arts-using witch slayers, who travel all over 17th century Germany with their arsenal of gigantic phallic-symbol guns.
Hansel gets a girlfriend, but he also gets a nice gay subtext with the fanboy Ben (Thomas Mann), touching him repeatedly on the chest, riding with Ben's arms around his waist, and finally inviting him to join the witch-hunting team.
The penis photo is from a j/o video. Jeremy says that an ex-girlfriend posted it to humiliate him. I can't imagine how it's humiliating for the world to know that you are hung.
Jeremy is probably best known as Hawkeye, the one who shoots magic arrows, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies and a six-episode miniseries. Any gay subtexts in his portrayal are squashed by his happily-ever-after retirement with wife and kids.
Most recently Jeremy starred in The Mayor of Kingstown, a tv series about a family trying to maintain law-and-order in a Michigan prison town. No gay characters, but there's a prison rape scene, naturally.
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