Fact Check: No, Jeremy Renner Didn’t Break His Arms Filming ‘The Avengers’

At the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Renner tells TheWrap that the accident actually happened on a different movie, and "it's frustrating" how false stories spread

Contrary to Friday’s media reports, Jeremy Renner did not break both arms while shooting a stunt in the upcoming superhero movie Avengers:

Yes, Renner did appear at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Friday with both of his arms in splints, and at a press conference he explained that he fractured his right elbow and left wrist performing a stunt on his latest film shoot.

[...] the news of an “Avengers” accident was re-reported on a number of different sites, including TheWrap, until it had spread across Twitter and the world, all the way back to a certain actor in a spa town in the Czech Republic.

“It’s frustrating,” said Renner in a conversation that dealt less with the one accident and more with the perils of being a public figure in this age of a Twitter version of the old broken-telephone game.

Just look at Andrew Garfield, who might have made some poorly phrased comments about his preparations to play in “Angels in America,” but most certainly did not pseudo- come-out-of-the-closet, as some outlets were reporting.

Though the actor was on hand to present the festival’s Grand Prix as the final prize of the evening, he was called onstage far earlier than expected when his film “Wind River” won the Audience Award.