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The trailer for Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere has offered the first real look at Jeremy Allen White in the lead role.
The award-winning star of The Bear plays the musician as he puts together his sixth album Nebraska in the early 1980s. The film, from Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper, is based on Warren Zanes’ 2023 book.
Zanes has said it will be different from most biopics as “it doesn’t start before success – it starts in the middle.”
“I’ve got a really talented group of people helping me train vocally, musically, to get ready for this thing,” White also said in a GQ interview. “I’m also really lucky [that] Bruce is really supportive of the film, and so I’ve had some access to him and he’s just the greatest guy.”
Springsteen, who has been involved in the process, has already praised White’s performance, calling him “a terrific actor” who sings “very well”.
“He’s got an interpretation of me that I think the fans will deeply recognise and he’s just done a great job, so I’ve had a lot of fun,” he said in a recent interview. “I’ve had a lot of fun being on the set when I can get there.”
White, who has won two Golden Globes and three Emmys for his lead performance in The Bear, has also starred in wrestling drama The Iron Claw. He’s also set to appear with Pedro Pascal in Star Wars movie The Mandalorian and Grogu.
The film also stars Jeremy Strong as Springsteen’s manager Jon Landau and, fresh off his Netflix success with Adolescence, Stephen Graham as his father. The actor recently revealed that he received an emotional text from the singer.
“He’s a working-class hero,” he said. “He’s an icon to thousands, to millions. And his text just said: ‘Thank you so much. You know, my father passed away a while ago and I felt like I saw him today and thank you for giving me that memory.’ I was crying reading the text, do you know what I mean? Oh mate, it was beautiful. You couldn’t ask for anything more, you know, to share that with someone was gorgeous. He’s a lovely man.”
Springsteen has recently made headlines after speaking out against the policies of Donald Trump, calling him “unfit” for office. The president fired back calling him a “dried out prune”.
Deliver Me From Nowhere will be released in October.
