Jeremy Allen White admits that playing Bruce Springsteen in the biopic “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” was tough.
“It was a tremendous amount of pressure,” the actor exclusively told Page Six at the 2025 Gotham Awards ceremony in New York City on Monday night.
Fortunately, White got some help from the boss himself.
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“Bruce texted me almost every night,” White said. “And he was often on set.”
The 34-year-old “The Bear” star jokingly added that if it weren’t for the encouraging messages from Springsteen, 76, he would have “cried more” than he is now.
In this biographical musical drama film, White portrays a Jersey rocker on the brink of global stardom, struggling to come to terms with the pressures of success and a troubled past.
Scott Cooper, who wrote and directed the music biopic, told Page Six that it was easy to make a movie about the “Born to Run” singer because he is “a rare cultural icon these days.”
Cooper added that he felt it was the perfect time to release a project like this, as the current world situation is “full of noise and confusion and anger and hate.”
“Personally, I think Bruce Springsteen is our best representative,” he explained.
The director of “Crazy Heart” described Springsteen as “morally sound” and “the best person he can be.”
During Monday’s event, the pair also received the Cultural Icon Tribute Award at the gala.
“I’m so grateful that Bruce let us into (his) space and was able to tell a story that he never told himself and never mythologized,” White said while accepting the award, stumbling over the word “mythologizing.”
“Sorry guys, I’m so tired,” he quipped, much to the delight of the star-studded crowd, which included Rihanna, Hugh Jackman, Julia Roberts, Paul Rudd and Jacob Elordi.
