Jeremy Renner / Esquire Magazine 封面故事 (轉載)

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Each Time Slightly Bigger, Slightly Braver
一點一滴不著痕跡的累積：多一次經驗，就多一分成長，也多一分無畏

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By Chris Jones

Published in the August 2012 issue

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He wants to go back to the start.
他想要回到起點。

It's nice to think that he knew back then that today was in his future, that he somehow picked this spot on the horizon — Academy Award nominations, blockbuster franchises — and pointed himself at it, and made his opening move, and then another and another, and now here he's finally arrived, roaring through these crooked streets in his silver Porsche, with the top down and the sun pouring in. It's nice to think that he might have been capable of single-handedly creating this present for himself, that the right combination of work and planning and sacrifice might take a not particularly tall or lean or handsome twenty-two-year-old California kid and turn him into this forty-one-year-old poster-sized man. Because if Jeremy Renner actually earned his way here, to his suite at the Four Seasons, to this bucket seat, to The Avengers and The Bourne Legacy, the bookends of our summer, just because one day he decided he was going to, suddenly we would have a process, a map that we could follow.

如果能這樣想很好：他早在過去就知道會走到今天這一步；其實這些都是他的選擇，他選擇了現在的立足點—兩次奧斯卡提名，商業取向的熱門系列大片—並用這些給自己下了定位，維持他的大膽無畏：歡迎任何可能的發展，林林種種，我可以繼續列舉下去，而現在他終於來到我們跟前，銀色保時捷的引擎低鳴聲甩過蜿蜒 的街道，車子的頂篷收了下來，陽光的金黃灑落其中。 如果能這樣想很好：他一手創造了自己今天的形象，以正確的比列調和分配工作、計畫和犧牲，把當年那個22歲，不特別高、不特別瘦，長相也不特別帥氣的加州小伙子推上大舞台，蛻變成現在你跟前這個41歲，在數張全開海報、各大雜誌封面展現無窮魅力的成熟男人。 如果這一切都是Jeremy Renner憑一己之力爭取來的：住進四季旅館的高級套房，坐上保時捷的高級駕駛座，參演商業大片《The Avengers》和《The Bourne Legacy》，紅遍整個暑期檔。如果這一切，只不過是哪天他突然下了決心：我想站上那個舞台，想擁有那樣的成就，然後我們就能清清楚楚看清他的成功過 程，怎麼一步一步走到這裡來的。 如果這些全部成立，那麼我們或許能有機會一窺他的成功玄機。 Too bad there's no such thing. It's naive to think that we're in total control of our own destinies. There are too many variables to account for. There are too many random collisions. 很不幸的，不存在這種東西。 人能夠確確實實掌控自己的命運這種事，不過是個太過天真的想法。 生命中存在太多變數，太多的未知，太多不可預期的衝擊。

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For instance: Five minutes into his journey back today, Renner gears down to a red light. Beside him, an open-roofed van filled with gawking tourists pulls up. He had just been talking about his growing fame, about the rise in his being recognized.

就拿今天稍早的五分鐘插曲來說吧：我們正在開車回程路上，Renner停下來等紅燈。旁邊停著一台中型旅遊巴士，天窗打開了，車上坐滿呆頭呆腦的觀光客。Renner當時正提到他走紅之後遇上的改變，成名、地位、走在街上更容易被認出來等等。

"Yeah, I go to a few spots," he said. "People will want to talk about something, that's fine. People for the most part — " When suddenly: "Hey!" " — people for the most part — " Now there's another yell, louder this time: "Hey!"

「恩哼，當我去到那幾個地方的時候」他說，「人們會想跟你聊聊你的工作，這沒什麼關係。大多數的人…」 突然旁邊傳來一聲：「嘿！」 「…大多數的人…」 再一聲提高音量的「嘿！」，這次是用喊的。

It's the driver of the van. She's looking down into Jeremy Renner's Porsche. He turns to look up at her, so slowly that you can almost hear his neck creak. But now his face flashes with recognition.

發話者是旅遊巴士的駕駛員，一 名女子，從駕駛座車窗探出頭來往下俯視Jeremy Renner的保時捷。他停下來，抬起頭看向她的方向，有鑑於保時捷和卡車的高度差異，那個仰頭的角度總讓人錯覺會聽到他的脖子慢慢慢慢「卡」一聲折斷。 他臉上閃過：「喔，我認得你是誰了」的表情。

"Hey," he says. "How you doing?" "Long time no see!" she says. "Good to see you, what's up?" "I told you that you'd be in a movie with Tom Cruise, didn't I?" And if this woman driving the tour van had somehow told Renner such a thing, she became remarkably right when he starred alongside Cruise in Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol last winter. "I don't know about that specifically... ." Renner says, smiling. "Are you singing to these people?" He turns to address the admiring tourists, now taking pictures of the movie star idling beside them. "She's a tremendous singer," he tells them. "Thank you," she says. "You want to go to Barney's? Is that where you're going? Are you going to Barney's?" "No, not right now." "Not anymore, huh? I'm so happy for you, my brother. Good to see you." "Thank you, darling."

「嘿。」他說：「過得好嗎？」 「好久不見！！」她回答。 「很高興看到你，最近有什麼新鮮事？」 「我就說你會和Tom Cruise一起拍電影的，我早說你遲早會做到的，對吧？」如果這名旅遊巴士的女駕駛員的確對Renner說過這樣的話(不管她什麼時候在什麼地方說 的)，她可真是鐵口神斷，去年冬天Renner和Cruise合作《Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol》確實証明了這一點。 「我沒有非常清楚的印象……」Renner說，微微一笑：「這些是你的聽眾嗎？你會在他們跟前表演唱歌嗎？」他指向車上興奮不己的觀光客，他們正忙著拍照 — 難得有電影明星在街上停車在你旁邊跟你一起等紅燈。「她是非常棒、非常棒的歌手！」他對車上的觀光客說。 「謝謝你的贊美。」她說：「你想去Barney's嗎？你現在要開車去那裡嗎？要去Barney's嗎？」 「沒有。不是現在。」 「你再也不會去了，是吧？嘿兄弟，我好高興你能擁有今天這樣的成就，我為你高興。遇見你太好啦。」 「謝謝你，親愛的。」

Then the light changes, and the conversation's over.
Renner turns left; the van goes straight.
綠燈了，他們的對話就此結束。Renner往左轉，而旅遊巴士直走。

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"Amazing," Renner says, mostly to himself. What are the odds? Of that particular tourist van, at that particular red light? A tiny accident of time and place, and Renner's exactly where he wanted to go, back before all this. "I used to hang out at karaoke bars all the time. It was the most fun you could have when you had no money. I went right here twice a week" — and Renner points to Barney's Beanery, a beer-and-burgers-and-karaoke place that conveniently appears to his right — "from 1995 until, like, 2002. Religiously. And she was one of the gals. There was a whole clan of people, this circuit of people. We'd get together and just have the best time. You know, she was a tremendous singer. A really, really great singer." That's what she wanted to be. Now one of them drives past Barney's in his convertible Porsche, off to retrace his path to gigantism. The other is serenading her open-topped van filled with tourists. How do two people who start in the same place find themselves at such different spots on the horizon, if not for the stars?

「不可思議。」Renner發表感想，這句話多半是對他自己說的。這樣的巧合發生的機率是幾分之幾？剛好就是那台旅遊巴士，剛好就是那個紅燈。湊起對了的時間地點，再碰上剛剛好路過的Renner，如此微乎其微的機緣。 「我以前會把所有的空閒時間都花在卡拉ok酒吧裡。那是窮人的娛樂天堂，口袋沒錢的時候能提供你最高娛樂的地方。我一週會去個兩次。」Renner指給我看路邊的Barney's Beanery招牌－－剛好出現在他右手邊的一間小酒吧，服務項目有啤酒、漢堡和卡拉ok。 「從1995年開始一直到，大概2002年吧，像上教堂一樣死忠。她就是當時的常客之一。我們成為一個團體，有幾個固定班底，大家不定期輪流出現。我們在一起度過一段非常棒的時光。告訴你，她的歌聲棒透了，她是個非常、非常棒的歌手。」 那是她的夢想。而現在，這對昔日的歌唱伙伴，其中一人正開著他的 敞篷保時捷經過Barney's，彷彿再度重溫一次舊時光，再走一次他曲折的成功之路。另一個人呢，開著旅遊巴士，和她的觀光乘客一起分享她美妙的歌喉。 他們曾經站在同樣的起點上，現在卻擁有如此截然不同的立足點，如果說這和走不走明星這條路沒關係，他們又是怎麼最後分別走向差異如此大的道路的？

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嗚嗚~小棗對不起
試了一下把你的註解加進去結果文章感覺變得很雀躍阿，所以...鄉親們強烈建議到本家去看阿ww

會想轉這一篇是因為這部分表現出JR很親切的感覺~交友也很廣闊www
人家JR可是有很多朋友的呢www~這個性有誰會討厭他阿
而且真不知道會有卡拉OK的過往XDDD 不知道會不會搶麥
對以往的朋友依舊很親切，感覺真不錯www

文章非常的長，作者文筆十分特殊
...但是第三頁講到隱私的時候真的覺得難過可能某些方面我也蠻重視隱私吧
所以我要默默的廚!!!(不要亂跳tone

如果要看後面四篇的一樣請洽本家阿阿阿~所以小棗辛苦了wwww
然後一定又要三八一下這系列照片真的好像歡樂型的Brandt XDDD (灑小花

不管JR表情有多豐富，還是最喜歡他自然的笑容阿-/////-



當然怪怪的動作也是賣點拉www
你們一定要這麼嚴重的發作赤子之心嘛wwwww