Bruce Springsteen explains why he agreed to ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’ biopic
Bruce Springsteen has revealed why he agreed to his upcoming biopic, Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White.
The upcoming movie is courtesy of director Scott Cooper and is based on Warren Zanes’ 2023 book of the same name. The original book tells the story of how Springsteen hibernated in isolation to produce his 1982 masterpiece, Nebraska, while grappling emotionally with his position on the brink of superstardom.
Deliver Me From Nowhere is set to premiere at the New York Film Festival later this month, ahead of a cinematic release on October 18th, 2025.
Along with Cooper, White, and his manager, Jon Landau, Springsteen appeared at the Telluride Film Festival this weekend, where they lifted the lid behind the creative process.
Per Variety, Springsteen said that “what brought this one along” compared to other biopics in the past is “was that I think we had a very specific idea — Scott (Cooper) had a very specific idea, particularly, of what we were gonna attempt to do. And, for lack of a better word, it was an anti-biopic.”
He then explained why he doesn’t view it as a biopic, adding, “You know, it’s really not a biopic — it just takes a couple years out of my life when I was 31 and 32 and looks at them really at a time when I made this particular record (Nebraska), and when I went through some just difficult places in my life, you know. And, I’m old and I don’t give a fuck what I do now.”
At the same event, director Cooper praised White’s performance as Springsteen, stating he had “an intensity of vulnerability and authenticity that I saw in Bruce’s work and in archival interviews with Bruce… Jeremy has two things that really, for me, make up Bruce Springsteen, and one is humility. And the other is swagger.”
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