We started to get to know him in The Avengers, which Renner says was also the case for him as an actor.
Jeremy Renner made his MCU debut as Clint Barton in the first Thor movie, but only in a brief role that didn’t really pull much focus.
It seems that most actors are looking for a way in, but at the beginning Jeremy Renner actually wanted a way out.
The first Avengers movie was Renner’s first chance to really shine as Hawkeye, which made the fact that the character spends half the movie as a mind-controlled zombie quite frustrating for the actor.