Filmmaker says Jeremy Renner sent explicit photos, threatened to call ICE. He denies all

Jeremy Renner, a prima successful the “Avengers” beingness and the HBO bid “Mayor of Kingstown,” is facing allegations of misconduct from filmmaker Yi Zhou.

In an extended bid of posts connected Instagram past week Zhou alleges that opening successful June Renner sent “a drawstring of unwanted / unsolicited pornographic images.” After a narration implicit calls and text, according to Zhou, “The archetypal carnal brushwood was not consensual. … Later interactions became consensual, yet the earlier incidental remained profoundly distressing.” Another station claims that Renner “threatened to telephone immigration/ICE connected me,” which near her “shocked and frightened.”

A typical for Renner responded to a petition for remark Sunday by saying, “The accusations being made by this idiosyncratic are wholly inaccurate and untrue.”

Many of Zhou’s Instagram posts, which see images of expected messages betwixt the 2 of them and what look to beryllium candid, idiosyncratic photos of the actor, added the hashtag “#CancelJeremyRenner.”

Zhou, calved successful China and based successful Los Angeles, has directed 2 films, the documentary “Masters of Cinema: Chronicles of Disney” and the animated “Stardust Future,” which she says Renner participated successful and past refused to promote.

People reported that Renner’s attorney, Marty Singer, sent Zhou a cease-and-desist missive to forestall further “salacious lies” connected Friday. A connection to Singer’s bureau Sunday was not instantly returned.

In 1 of her posts, Zhou wrote of her information for speaking out. “My volition is not retaliation but transparency,” she said. “I person the close to support my nonrecreational reputation, to acceptable boundaries, and to close misinformation erstwhile selective reporting distorts the facts.” She posted a cease-and-desist missive she purportedly emailed to Renner connected Instagram asking him to halt “any signifier of verbal abuse, yelling oregon intimidation.”

In a 2025 interrogation with the Guardian promoting his memoir “My Last Breath,” which chronicles the 2023 mishap involving an concern snowcat that astir killed him, Renner denied erstwhile allegations of misconduct — substance maltreatment and a verbal menace — that came retired successful a custody quality with his ex-wife Sonni Pacheco implicit their daughter, Ava.

“Being accused of things you’ve not done, right? That doesn’t consciousness bully to anybody,” Renner said. “It surely doesn’t consciousness bully erstwhile you’re a personage and it’s known to everybody.”