10 Actors Who Wanted To Quit Huge Movie Franchises

10. Jeremy Renner - The Avengers

Needless to say, Hawkeye didn't make the greatest impression in the first Avengers film. He was a Hydra puppet for almost the entire run time, and didn't have much else to do after he'd been broken free of the spell.

Jeremy Renner agreed, and was very unhappy about the role his character had played in the juggernaut. He felt like he'd never got to know his character well enough due to being "Loki's minion", and asked to be killed off in the 2015 sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron. His attempts were so desperate at one point that he'd pretend to have heart pain on set to give the filmmakers "options" for how to kill him off.

Fortunately for Renner, Hawkeye's character was beefed up in the sequels rather than left by the wayside, as the surprise introduction of the Barton family in Age of Ultron gave the actor something emotional to work with and no longer desired to be killed off in the franchise.