When playing a game of tag, your arms, aka your primary tagging implements, are a critical component. However, during most of the filming of the movie TagOpens in a new tab, star Jeremy RennerOpens in a new tab didn’t have full use of his, because he broke them both pretty early on during shooting (via The PlaylistOpens in a new tab).
Renner’s co-star Jon HammOpens in a new tab stopped by Ellen recently, and he told DeGeneres that on the third day of shooting, both of Renner’s arms “snapped like a matchstick”:
“We had several on-set injuries, the most notable being — I was not there that day, so it’s impossible to blame this on me — Jeremy Renner, who broke both of his arms at the same time, day three of production. We had… 40 more days to go? Keep in mind this is a man who’s done a hundred Avengers movies and been fine. And he does a movie about playing tag… both arms, like firewood, just snapped like a matchstick.”
If that really is true (I have no reason to think Hamm is a liar, so I believe that it is), then the CGI work here is impressive. Re-watching the trailer while thinking of the fact that most of the footage of Renner doesn’t contain his actual moving arms, I didn’t notice anything that looked suspicious. That’s pretty impressive considering he’s throwing people around, wrapping towels around his friends, throwing donuts, and otherwise doing arm-intensive activities. They definitely look more convincing than Henry Cavill’s mustache in Justice LeagueOpens in a new tab.
See if you can notice any arm weirdness in the Tag trailer below. Do you see anything, or does the CGI work get two real-life thumbs up? Let us know what you think down in the comments!
Featured image: Warner Bros. Pictures
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