Bruce Springsteen‘s manager Jon Landau has praised the casting of The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White as The Boss in the forthcoming biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere.
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From 20th Century Studios, Deliver Me From Nowhere follows Springsteen during the making of his 1982 album ‘Nebraska’ and is directed by Scott Cooper (Black Mass, Hostiles), and is based on the 2023 book Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska by Warren Zanes and is scheduled to start filming this autumn.
“Oh my god, he’s just perfect. The casting is great,” Landau told The Hollywood Reporter. “[Director] Scott [Cooper] said to me at the beginning, he said, ‘We get the right cast, and we’ll tell this story right,’ and he got the right cast.”
Landau himself, meanwhile, will be portrayed by Succession‘s Jeremy Strong, which he was equally thrilled about. “I died and went to heaven,” he joked. “He’s a great guy. We’ve had the chance to know each other, and I’m just dying to see what he does and what I learn from it.”
He added: “We’re very pleased at the way they’re going about it, it’s going to be beautiful.”
NEW YORK, NY – MAY 06: Singer/songwriter Bruce Springsteen and music producer Jon Landau attend the 2017 Kristen Ann Carr Fund “A Night To Remember” gala at Tribeca Grill on May 6, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Jim Spellman/Getty Images)
Last month, Stephen Graham joined the cast as Springsteen’s father. The cast also includes Paul Walter Hauser as guitar tech Mike Batlan, as well as Odessa Young, who is rumoured to play a love interest.
Back in August, White spoke to GQ about his preparation for portraying the rock icon. “I’m really lucky that there’s sort of a team of folks now in place to help young actors portray rock stars. I’ve got a really talented group of people helping me train vocally, musically, to get ready for this thing.”
The actor, who previously revealed he had texted The Boss in the hopes of meeting him in London, also shared that Springsteen was “really supportive of the project”, adding: “I’ve had some access to him and he’s just the greatest guy.”
He went on to share that “there’s just so much footage” of Springsteen, continuing: “It’s really great to go down a YouTube rabbit hole and find him at all these different periods in his life and be able to listen to his speaking voice as well as his singing voice.
“That’s kind of been the deal, just listening to him a lot and watching him a lot. It’s been really fun preparing.”
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