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“I mean, if I stop growing, stop being curious, then why live?” he ponders. “A pool of complacency is death to me. I’d rather be six feet under. The Middle East changed me much more as a man than as an actor. I mean, being a California kid and getting to experience the Middle East, a culture and a community and a religion I knew nothing about… And the physical part of the movie turned into a mental and spiritual part with how far it pushed us. It certainly tested the limits as to where I thought I could go.” - Jeremy Renner for Flaunt Magazine