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Strong besides told Stephen Colbert connected Thursday (Sept. 25) that the Boss and manager Jon Landau — who the histrion portrays successful the movie — were connected acceptable "almost each day."
Jeremy Allen White and Bruce Springsteen are seen connected the acceptable of "Deliver Me From Nowhere" connected November 4, 2024 successful Bayonne, New Jersey. Bobby Bank/GC Images
Jeremy Strong tin beryllium a small intense. The Succession prima who has established a estimation for being hyper dialed-in to his roles proved it again connected Thursday nighttime (Sept. 25) erstwhile helium told The Late Show big Stephen Colbert that not lone does helium play Bruce Springsteen‘s legendary manager, Jon Landau, successful the upcoming biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere, but helium embodied him truthful wholly that erstwhile the existent Landau was connected acceptable helium wasn’t definite who was whom.
“You are celebrated for going profoundly into character,” Colbert said to Strong, who revealed that Springsteen and Landau were connected the acceptable of the movie “almost each day” during the shoot. “Jon has been a friend, mentor, manager, producer, co-pilot for astir 50 years,” Strong said arsenic Colbert held up a changeable of the histrion connected acceptable with Landau, Springsteen, manager Scott Cooper and the film’s star, Jeremy Allen White.
Wondering if method antheral Strong adjacent realized that Landau was connected acceptable astir days, Colbert asked, “did you announcement him? Or did you announcement him much due to the fact that you were truthful him?” Strong said helium was capable to subordinate to Landau “as Jon,” explaining that arsenic an actor, “you locomotion retired connected this limb. You find ways to judge successful what you’re doing.”
And past helium dropped the Strong sauce, adding, “And successful a way, if Jon Landau… if I’m Jon Landau, who’s that feline implicit there?” Colbert had to laughter astatine that Jedi acting caput trick, comparing it to the celebrated Star Trek play 1 occurrence “The Enemy Within,” successful which a transporter malfunction creates 2 contemporaneous Capt. Kirks.
For real, though, Strong said Allen truly had to bash the dense lifting successful the movie that chronicles the past about-to-be-even-more-massive singer’s interior retreat to constitute the stark, story-cycle Nebraska album. For example, helium said, Allen had to execute “Born successful the U.S.A.” astatine the Power Station workplace successful Manhattan wherever it was primitively recorded by the Boss portion Springsteen and Landau were watching.
“It’s a movie astir integrity and authenticity and healing,” Strong said. “It’s a communicative astir a clip successful Bruce’s beingness successful 1982 wherever helium was, I would say, trying to find, successful James Baldwin’s words, ‘an honorable spot to stand.'” Strong besides noted that adjacent earlier helium signed connected to the movie that is owed retired connected Oct. 24, helium was a Springsteen superfan, revealing which Boss opus helium played astatine his wedding.
“[The album] is astir idiosyncratic struggling with the feeling of being unfit to live, which is simply a lyric successful the album,” said Strong. “I’m idiosyncratic who… I had a opus of his played astatine my wedding, ‘If I Should Fall Behind’ [from 1992’s Lucky Town] and Nebraska is an medium I’ve ever loved, truthful to springiness backmost adjacent a modicum of thing to springiness backmost to idiosyncratic who has fixed truthful overmuch to each of america was a existent privilege.”
Strong besides talked to Colbert astir his caller documentary, The White House Effect, which zooms successful connected the root communicative of the clime situation astatine a clip successful the 1990s erstwhile clime subject began to get politicized.
Watch Strong connected The Late Show below.