Jeremy Renner has made major changes in his life after surviving a nearly-fatal snow plow accident last year.

The Hawkeye actor appeared on the Smartless podcast on Monday, and told hosts Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes that he now avoids certain challenging roles now after breaking nearly 40 bones and almost dying when his machinery ran over him.

Renner also said that he was very terrified to do fucking fiction when he returned to acting after his accident.

Im still trying to live in reality, Im trying to live, the Mayor of Kingstown actor said of his thought process when he was going back to work. It was a hard line for me to cross ... It was very, very challenging for me mentally to get over that hump.

And I still struggle with it sometimes, Renner said. I dont take it super seriously. Im in a character that I can do very well, and I know the show very well, so it was easy for me to kind of slide back into it, he said of his current role on the Kingstown TV show.

But if it was a very challenging role, I wouldnt have I couldnt have taken it, he explained. Not challenging in the sense that because the shows challenging but its that, if I had to go play Dahmer or something, something so far from me, I dont have the energy for it. I dont have the fuel.