Jeremy Renner is in the middle of the scandal, after the Chinese filmmaker, Yi Zhou, accused him of sexual harassment y threats.
The protagonist of โAvengers“is accused by filmmaker Yi Zhou of having received sexually explicit messages and an attempt at intimidation. According to Zhou’s testimony, The incident occurred last June, after collaborating with Renner on a documentary.
The filmmaker shared a series of messages on social networks in which he assured that Renner began sending her intimate images without her consent. After confronting him, Hawkeye’s interpreter threatened to call immigration.
The filmmaker accompanied her statements with fragments of conversations, messages and photographs; However, the actor has already responded to the allegations.
In a statement sent to “People” magazine, Renner’s legal team described the allegations as false and highly defamatory. They even assured that Zhou’s statements respond to personal resentment, after their client rejected his romantic advances.
Through his lawyer, Renner admitted that there was a brief encounter, but it was consensual, after which Zhou would have begun to harass him.
โThe actual facts are that Ms. Zhou has relentlessly and aggressively harassed and pursued my client for months without any reciprocity from my client, other than a single brief encounter on July 12, 2025,โ the legal team alleged.
So far, Yi Zhou has not responded to the lawyer’s statement, although, in his initial publication, he asked to continue fighting for the โMe Tooโ movement.
This controversy comes at a time of apparent recovery for Jeremy Renner, who at the beginning of 2023 suffered a serious accident with a snow plow. After months of rehabilitation, the actor had recently resumed his career and promoted new projects.
