Bruce Springsteen thanks Jeremy Allen White for being “very tolerant” of him on ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’ set
Bruce Springsteen has opened up about working with Jeremy Allen White, who will play ‘The Boss’ in the upcoming biopic, Deliver Me From Nowhere.
In a new interview, Springsteen discusses that he has been pictured plenty of times on the biopic set, which tells the story of how Springsteen made his 1982 masterpiece, Nebraska, during a testing part of his personal life. “It was fun, it was enjoyable,” he said of the experience.
He also praised White for his considered involvement. Humbly, he admitted to Rolling Stone, “Jeremy Allen White was very, very tolerant of me the days that I would appear on the set. I said to him, ‘Look, anytime I’m in the way, just give me the look and I’m on my way home.'”
Despite this, The Bear actor never dismissed the musician. “The days that I got out there, he was wonderfully tolerant with me being there,” Springsteen reminisced.
Springsteen then praised the key actors in the show as “tremendous”, such as Stephen Graham, who plays his father, and Jeremy Strong, who plays his manager, Jon Landau. He admitted, “There’s some unusualness to it because the movie involves, in some ways, some of the most painful days of my life. But it was a great project.”
Springsteen made it to the set whenever he could, but both his Canadian tour and his awareness of the complicated emotions of some scenes made the ‘Born in the USA’ singer put up a wall. “Well, some of the scenes I wasn’t at,” he revealed. “If there was a scene coming up that was sometimes really deeply personal, I wanted the actors to feel completely free, and I didn’t want to get in the way, and so I would just stay at home.”
In January, Springsteen previously praised White’s performance in the biopic, sharing, “Jeremy is such a terrific actor that you just fall right into it. He’s got an interpretation of me that I think the fans will deeply recognise.”
Deliver Me From Nowhere is set to be released in cinemas on October 24th, 2025.
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