Could you explain it

Thanks everyone for the explanation.

When a pedestrian (person walking) or animal gets hit by a car, it's colloquially described as being "run over." There is an expectation of serious injury, death, or a bizarre situation in which we expected one of those things to happen and miraculously, they didn't. * "We ran over a deer last night." = "Last night, while driving, our car hit and may have killed a deer." * "He got run over, but he's fine." = "He was hit by a car. Watching it happen, we expected him to have broken limbs, a concussion, and maybe worse. However, he somehow ended up with just some scrapes and bruises." Another commenter provided a link to Jeremy's accident.

he was literally ran over by a snowplow

So, in 2023, Jeremy Renner was run over by a snow plow and was in the hospital/recovering. He's since started acting again, but Disney offered him half the salary he made on season 1 of Hawkeye for season 2. He felt slighted and wondered if the low offer was because of his accident.

I think no one has really addressed what you’re assking here so I’ll try to focus in. The “got run over” is an alternate passive structure. For example the more common/correct usage would be “because I was run over”. However in these passive structures it is very common to use “get” as an alternative to “be” in more informal situations. This is especially common when the subject of the verb was some kind of victim, typically of a crime but also, as in this case, of an accident. Example: >_”They were mugged on the way to the theatre”_ >_“I got mugged while waiting at the bus stop”_ It’s also worth adding that in the case of this quote they use the past tense form of run(ran) instead of the past participle(run) which is not something that you should worry too much about if you notice it. Whilst some English examiners will tell you it is incorrect to do so, and technically it is, many English speakers will colloquially make errors such as this which have little or no significance in day to day conversation.

> "because I got ran over". What was he trying to say? Because I got RUN over. But it's common in American English to not understand how to form the past tense properly. You often hear things like "I have ate" and "I have went".

This is a great example of how a turn of phrase that is technically incorrect telegraphs additional meaning (whether intentionally or not). It’s an error more likely to be made by a child or someone who grew up among rural or working class folks. It makes me feel sympathetic toward the speaker, like he’s a simple guy being mistreated by the powerful.

Grammar aside, is there any logical connection between getting run over and receiving half a salary because of that?

"Got ran over" means that he was in a terrible accident with a vehicle. Probably that he was walking, a vehicle struck him, and the wheels of the vehicle passed over part of his body. That is what it means to run someone over. It sounds like what's happening in this story is that because of his injury, the actor couldn't do the same stunts and physical acting that he did before, so the studio was only going to give him half his salary for the second season of the show. And the actor basically is saying "I'm not half an actor. Why are you only giving me half a salary.

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He was quite literally run over (i.e., a vehicle drove over him). This was back in January 2023. [Wikipedia's brief description](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Renner#2023_snowplow_accident).

The term “ran over” means getting hit by a vehicle, mainly a car. A little while back Jeremy Renner got hit by a snow plow. He’s survived, of course, but he’s been in physical therapy, and now he’s working again. He’s upset because he thinks Disney might think they can pay him less because he was injured, which tbh is kinda fucked up for one of the last remaining of the OG Avengers.

Exactly that. He literally got ran over by a truck. It was a big story in the news a few years ago. He was in the hospital. Had to go through physical therapy to start walking again, etc. If you're unfamiliar with the phrase "ran over" it means a vehicle hit you and went over you.