Bruce Springsteen’s Only Note on Jeremy Allen White’s ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Portrayal: ‘I Don’t Remember Being That Good Looking’

It indispensable beryllium ace disconcerting to beryllium connected a movie acceptable and ticker a overmuch younger antheral represent you during 1 of the astir hard periods of your life. It’s astir apt adjacent harder to bash if that antheral happens to beryllium a pin-up worthy TV star. Just inquire Bruce Springsteen, who sat down with his movie doppelganger, The Bear histrion Jeremy Allen White, connected The Graham Norton Show connected Friday (Oct. 17) to sermon his feelings astir the upcoming biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere, successful which White plays The Boss astatine a pivotal constituent successful his career.

“I don’t retrieve being that young oregon that bully looking!,” Springsteen joked to Norton astir what it felt similar to ticker White play him successful the movie that zooms successful connected the play successful 1982 erstwhile the rocker was signaling the spare Nebraska album, a left-turn LP that his statement thought was perchance vocation suicide. Springsteen told Norton that the movie is not a philharmonic biopic successful the vein of the Queen movie Bohemian Rhapsody oregon the Elton John look backmost Rocket Man.

“[It’s] a character-driven play with music,” Springsteen said, noting that helium was connected acceptable “a lot” during the filming, but seldom gave White, 34, notes and conscionable tried to bask himself and observe arsenic White did his quality enactment successful private. “I felt truly blameworthy astir that due to the fact that not lone did Jeremy person to play me, but helium had to play maine portion I americium sitting close determination watching him,” said Springsteen, 76, who noted that he’d watched The Bear and was impressed with however the camera work White’s “internal psychology,” making him the “first choice” for the role. “He was incredibly tolerant and generous of maine for which I americium grateful. I had a large time,” helium said.

White, who does his ain singing successful the film, said helium tense and wasn’t definite what to expect astatine first. “You’re trying to drum up immoderate delusion and imaginativeness and seeing the antheral you are playing successful the country was hard,” the histrion said. “But past helium came truthful often it became normal… I deliberation if helium had fixed maine notes it mightiness person breached me.”

A immense Springsteen fan, White noted helium did a ton of prep to instrumentality connected the “daunting” role, grooming six...