"Hurt Locker 2 I won't be in," Jeremy Renner tells a group of us near the end of our interview. That's not a knock at the movie, which is getting stellar reviews, or at Kathryn Bigelow, the movie's director whom Renner calls "tougher than anybody on set." But after Renner described working on days of 125-degree heat in the Jordan desert, and donning a 100-pound bomb deflection suit on top of it, none of us could blame him-- we wouldn't want to be in the sequel either. The Hurt Locker, set in Iraq, follows an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team, a group of soldiers with very specific skills who are dispatched to disarm roadside bombs and other Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). Renner plays Staff Sergeant William James, a hot-shot and skilled bomb dismantler who initially butts heads with Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Eldridge... [read full story]
