Bruce Springsteen’s manager says Jeremy Allen White is “perfect” choice to lead biopic
nme.comBruce 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.
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.”Last month, Stephen Graham joined the cast as Springsteen’s father.
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