Jeremy Renner is set to play Hawkeye for the third time in ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’, and director Joss Whedon told us the eagle-eyed archer will have lot more to do in this film than he did in the first one, in which he spent much of the film under Loki’s spell.

He’s not the only one with more to do, though. It seems all the team members will have their work cut out for them when it comes to dealing with Ultron and his countless drones.

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We caught up with Renner and Chris Evans between takes on the film’s Shepperton set to talk Hawkeye, Captain America, and the challenges involved in making the sequel to the most successful superhero film of all time.

Here’s what we learned.

The Avengers will get more action scenes together

Whedon’s first Avengers film had to spend the majority of its runtime getting the gang together, meaning we actually only got to see them working as a team in the film’s New York finale. This time around, we’re going to see them working together much more.

“I like all the scenes that we get to have together,” says Evans. “In this movie, it’s not about having stand-out moments, it’s about trying to have stand-together moments. You want to have scenes where you’re like ‘Man, the Avengers just kicked ass!’”

“If it’s every man for himself then it defeats the purpose of what this movie is. We have individual films for that. So I like the scenes where – as a unit – we’re all wrecking shop. And we get a bunch of those in this.”

Avengers 2 is “smaller”

How do you top the biggest superhero of all time? It’s a valid question and it’s one that Renner asked the director himself.

“I remember talking to [Joss Whedon] after the fact, after seeing that movie and being like: ‘How do we do another one?’ Where do we go?’ Joss said: ‘Well, you gotta go smaller.’”

“[After seeing] the script, ultimately, I feel like it’s bigger. There’s a lot more action, a lot of new characters, and that makes it more complicated, but also there’s more intimacy in this one unlike the last one.

“There’s a lot more of us together, which I think is really interesting. I think this is an impossible script to write, from the first one to now: There a lot of people and stories to try to tell and he does a really good job with it, and he keeps it very real.

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