Not every actor who steps into the frayed jeans of a global rock icon has so much footage to consider when preparing for a role. Fortunately for The Bear Starring Jeremy Allen White, Bruce Springsteen has been playing three hour-plus shows for over 50 years, so his tape library is massive.
Which explains why in a new interview with GQthe actor said he is preparing hard for the upcoming Springsteen biopic Deliver me out of nowhere it involved hours and hours of video study. “There are so many shots,” White said. “It's really cool to go down a YouTube rabbit hole and find him in all these different periods of his life and be able to hear his speaking voice as well as his singing voice. It was kind of like that, I just listen to him a lot and watch him a lot. It was really fun to prepare.”
The 33-year-old actor — now about the same age Springsteen was when he released his sixth album, 1982's stripped-down Nebraska — said he's also very lucky to have voice coaches who can help people like him or Timothée Chalamet (who will play Bob Dylan in A complete stranger), hone the vocal quirks of the world's most famous singers while preparing for movies about their lives.
“I have a very talented group of people helping me train vocally, musically, to prepare for this thing,” White said. “I'm also very lucky [that] Bruce is really supportive of the film so I had some access to him and he's just the best guy.” Additionally, the Calvin Klein model who has set hearts aflutter with his off-the-cuff Calvin Klein ads said that while we haven't really heard his take on the New Jersey icon's legendary gritty vocal timbre, as Springsteen, it's 'gin. and t-shirt like a guy. It was exciting to know that we were doing this thing that we at least had that audience.”
Deliver me out of nowhere will tell the story behind its creation Nebraskaa gritty collection of character studies that followed Springsteen's sprawling 1980 double album, The Riverwhich featured some of The Boss' best-loved live performances including the singles 'Hungry Heart', 'Fade Away', 'Sherry Darling', the title track and 'Cadillac Ranch'. The film will be directed by Scott Cooper (Black mass, Horns), with a release date and supporting cast yet to be announced.
