The Marvel star, 54, opened up about the harrowing incident, which took place on New Year's Day 2023 when he was run over by a 14,000-pound snowcat outside his Lake Tahoe home while heroically trying to save his nephew.

In his recently published memoir My Next Breath, Renner describes the 'electric serenity' he felt during the brief moments he was clinically dead. 

The experience, he writes, left him unafraid of death and filled with an overwhelming sense of peace.

Now, in a recent appearance on Kelly Ripa's Let's Talk Off Camera podcast, Renner candidly admitted that his first reaction to being brought back to life was disappointment.

'It's a great relief is all I can say,' Renner said of the feeling that came with his near-death experience. 'It's a wonderful, wonderful relief to be removed from your body. It is the most exhilarating peace you could ever feel. It's the highest adrenaline rush, but the peace that comes with it, it's magnificent. It's so magical.'

That sense of peace, he revealed, was so powerful that returning to life felt like a letdown.

'And I didn't want to come back,' he said. 'I remember, and I was brought back and I was so p***ed off. I came back, I'm like, "Aww!"'

Renner admitted he was only 'gone' for a few minutes after his New Year's Day 2023 snowcat accident—but the glimpse of the afterlife was enough to change his entire outlook on life.

He said time didn't exist in that space, describing the afterlife as a place of pure knowing, free from human limitations like language or linear thought. 

'That's a human experience,' he told Kelly. 'Time is a human construct… This is so remedial—language, all these things. It's all knowing, all experiencing, all at the same time, all at once.'

Renner now sees the accident as a wake-up call that cleared the noise and helped him identify what truly matters. 

'It makes me—a man that didn't want to come back—really be able to be back here and live it on my terms as the captain of my own ship,' he said. 'And get on it or off it, I don't give a f---.'