Jeremy Renner hopes to do more small-scale, personal films like “Wind River,” he said at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, which screens the film ahead of honoring the actor on Saturday with the president’s prize.
He called the wilderness-set thriller’s director, Taylor Sheridan, “super, super smart,” adding he hopes to work with him again.
“He’s sort of a brass tacks kind of guy — get it done, get it done. He comes across kind of like a cowboy but he’s hyper, hyper intelligent.”When Sheridan makes his next film, said Renner, “I hope I will be in it. For a first-time director, he’s an amazing writer.”
Renner found “Wind River,” in its depiction of Native American communities, “topical,” showing them clearly at odds with the federal government as Elizabeth Olsen’s FBI agent character investigates a legally messy murder on a Wyoming reservation. But, he added, the film is not intended as a polemic against the Trump administration.
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