[kylactus]

I don't know, I recently had a conversation similar to this with my brother in law. I could definitely see too much knowledge of the comic continuity of a character screwing with an actor's ability to represent the MCU version of the character. Lets face it the MCU Hawkeye is not even close to the comic version! I could just imagine some uber fan-boy actor going on set and bitching that the writers need to alter the script to let everyone know that Hawkeye was in the Circus, and they need to bring him in as a Villain, and show his path to redemption, or complain that the costume needs to better represent his classic look. I'm just saying most of our favorite heroes and Villains have been around longer than most of us! I could just imagine Hugh Jackman walking off the set of XMO, because wolverine is NOT Sabertooth's brother!, or Chris Evans getting angry because Bucky fell off of a Missile, not a train! not everyone grew up reading comics, I'm sure Renner researched his roll a bit, but I could definitely see benefits to bringing in a fresh un-biased perspective,, especially on a project as big as MCU where your really building a whole new continuity as apposed to being stuck with 75+ years of other writers work to tip toe around. Also, of course he's doing it for a paycheck! they all are. no one gets into a multi billion dollar film franchise for the fun of it. I'm sure when RDJ's contract comes up he's not going to say "I just love the character and the fans so much I'll do the next three films for free". and as far as I can tell he's probably the coolest and most down to earth one of the bunch.