“I have tried to protect my family’s privacy, my wife’s privacy. I don’t need her to get hammered with my life,” he said. “Privacy issues are important because I want her to go about her day without being bothered. Paps follow me around… that’s fine. But I don’t like being followed when I’m with my family. I’ve been talked about a whole lot, because the less I put out there, the less people know, and it makes it interesting, I assume,” he added.

Renner is next to appear in Kill the Messenger alongside Andy Garcia, Rosemarie DeWitt, Michael Sheen and Mary Elizabeth Winsted among others.