TV Jeremy Renner gives Drew Barrymore lipstick advice while recalling his days working at a cosmetics counter "I’d audition all week for film and television and then go put makeup on women on the weekends. It was awesome," Marvel's Hawkeye says. By Lester Fabian Brathwaite Lester Fabian Brathwaite Lester Fabian Brathwaite is a staff writer at Entertainment Weekly, where he covers breaking news, all things Real Housewives, and a rich cornucopia of popular culture. Formerly a senior editor at Out magazine, his work has appeared on NewNowNext, Queerty, Rolling Stone, and The New Yorker. He was also the first author signed to Phoebe Robinson's Tiny Reparations imprint. He met Oprah once. EW's editorial guidelines Published on June 5, 2024 09:54PM EDT Is there anything Jeremy Renner can't do? Make the most boring Avenger interesting? Defy death? A matte lip? Renner stopped by to visit everyone's favorite kooky television aunt on The Drew Barrymore Show, where he recalled his days as a struggling actor working at department store cosmetics counters, while giving host Drew Barrymore a little lip care advice. Jeremy Renner and Drew Barrymore. CBS Sign up for Entertainment Weekly's free daily newsletter to get breaking TV news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more. With lipstick in hand, Barrymore asked Renner what he would recommend for her best lip life. He suggested a lip liner "all over your lips, so it's lasting, because it's more matte and less oil." He continued, "I probably wouldn't even use a lipstick, personally. I'd use, like, a lip gloss, so it gives a little shine. Because the oil will make it degrade and then you have to reapply it all the time, and it's moving around. And then also, you don't want to get in any creases." Barrymore, applying a red lip, remarked, "God, you're good!" Well, he should be, as he worked for years doing just this — though not on daytime TV with a Hollywood icon. Jeremy Renner does his own stunts with his real daughter in Super Bowl ad "I did makeup...wow, it ended up being for eight years," Renner revealed. "I started up in Modesto, then I moved down to Los Angeles with that job. It was a great gig. I’d work on the weekends at the department stores, audition all week for film and television, and then go put makeup on women on the weekends. It was awesome.” The Modesto, Cali., native made his film debut with a small part in 1995's National Lampoon's Senior Trip, but he didn't truly break out as an actor until 2009's The Hurt Locker, for which he earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination. He went on to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Hawkeye in 2012's The Avengers and starred as the character in three subsequent Avengers films and Disney+ series Hawkeye, earning him household-name status. He has also starred in films Arrival, two Mission: Impossible titles, and The Bourne Legacy. Still, it's nice to know that Hawkeye is also proficient with a smokey eye.