In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Bruce Springsteen opened up about visiting the set of Deliver Me From Nowhere and why the process was "much worse for the actor than for me."
He explained, "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.' So the days that I got out there, he was wonderfully tolerant with me being there. And it was just fun. It was enjoyable."
He continued to say, "I mean, 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, and Jeremy and Jeremy Strong were both fantastic, terrific in it as were all the other actors. Stephen Graham plays my dad, and he’s out of this world, but everybody that was engaged in the film, they were all tremendous."
The movie is written for the screen and directed by Scott Cooper, based on Warren Zanes's book, Deliver Me from Nowhere. The cast also includes Strong as Springsteen's long-time confidant and manager, Jon Landau, Paul Walter Hauser as guitar tech Mike Batlan, Stephen Graham as Springsteen’s father, Doug, Odessa Young as love interest, Faye, Gaby Hoffman as Springsteen’s mom, Adele, Marc Maron as Chuck Plotkin, and David Krumholtz as Columbia executive, Al Teller.
"Some of the scenes I wasn’t at. 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," he shared. "If Scott Cooper, the director, wanted or needed me there for something, I would try to make it. But I was on tour in Canada for the whole first month or so of the filming, and so I was out really out on the road quite a bit and working at that time."
From 20th Century Studios, “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 “Nebraska” album when he was a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggling to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past. Recorded on a 4-track recorder in Springsteen’s New Jersey bedroom, the album marked a pivotal time in his life and is considered one of his most enduring works—a raw, haunted acoustic record populated by lost souls searching for a reason to believe.
Cooper, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Eric Robinson, and Scott Stuber produce, while Tracey Landon, Jon Vein, and Zanes executive produce.
Deliver Me From Nowhere will be released in theaters on October 24.
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