Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Jeremy Allen White Struggled to Play Bruce Springsteen in Deliver Me From Nowhere Until He “Forgot Bruce”

Jeremy Allen White admits he was struggling to play Bruce Springsteen in Deliver Me From Nowhere...until he accepted something.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
So the Bruce Springsteen bio pick Starry Jeremy Allen White
delivered Me from Nowhere is out and critics are heaping
praise on Jeremy's portrayal of Bruce.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Which honestly is probably such a relief for him because
that's a lot of pressure to portray such a living legend.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
But pressure Bruce was on set. Can you imagine constantly
watching Jeremy from the filming and Jeremy had no musical
experience parts to signing on he had actually learned how
to play guitar and sing like Bruce and then do
it in front of the boss.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
No, I honestly can and how can you even manage
to pull that off?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well? He admitted to The Guardian that at first he
basically couldn't. The responsibility of it. On top of trying
to understand Bruce shut him down. The pressure just closed
him off. He realized he had to kick Bruce out
of his head approach it as just a young guy
from some musician on the brink of superstar and trying
to make sense of his future. So that's what he did.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Now that makes sense, and then he can to do
what he does best, act.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Jeremy says, to be Bruce, he had to forget Bruce
for a moment. Springsteen delivered me from nowhere's out there
now that's direct from Hollywood.