'Town' Star Jeremy Renner Makes Us Swoon On Cover Of Men's Health

By Lauren Strupp

Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner has really taken off in Hollywood. The handsome “Hurt Locker” star is on the cover of the new Men’s Health and shares how he started his acting career on stage with “nineteen years of emotional repression” pouring out of him, which led to his emotional and powerful turn in 2010’s Best Picture. Later this year he can be seen in Ben Affleck’s next directorial effort, "The Town."

But, aside from acting, Jeremy just wants to stay true to himself. “My plan isn’t to be able to do what I want to do when I want to do it, and not because I have to," he told the mag. "I call it my ‘pull-chute’ plan. That’s a military thing, you know … time to pull chute, like, time to kind of float and enjoy the view.”

He’d rather just not be in tabloids and chooses to be fearless and live for himself instead. "I don’t need some tabloid running off with something just because I got drunk some night and showed my ass to the bartender,” he said. “I made a very conscious decision to be fearless, to live a life of fear-freeness. I decided to do something every day I was afraid of.”

Like? “I swam with sharks,” he recalled of a scuba trip off California’s southern coast. “I was terrified of sharks and I’m still terrified of sharks, but at least I was taking action—and not being squelched by something I don’t know about.”

In addition, he says “sometimes I just kind of want to have fun and be unconscious for a while.” Yep, I think Jeremy and I could definitely be friends!

Tags Hurt Locker, Jeremy Renner, Men's Health, The Town