Jeremy Allen White has more than Bruce Springsteen’s blessing!
On Sunday 15.09. Bear The 33-year-old star revealed new details about the upcoming biopic based on Springsteen’s life in the 2024 Emmys press room.
“I’m pretty excited to get this thing going,” White said after his major outstanding lead actor in a comedy series win for his role on FX Bear. “We’re going to start it soon. You know, I don’t want to talk too much about it. It just doesn’t feel right before we get there and start the thing.”
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(L) Jeremy Allen White and Bruce Springsteen.
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While the actor remained tight-lipped about any additional information, he said he has a “really wonderful team of people helping me” with Springsteen’s guidance.
“Bruce was really nice, supportive and available, which made this whole process, I think, a special joy because we have his support and the support of Jon Landau – his manager – who also has a big role in the film,” he added. is. “So I feel really lucky, and yes, we’re getting there.”
In March, Diversity confirmed that White is in talks to portray the rock legend in a biopic titled, Rescue me from nowhere. The film, based on the 2023 non-fiction book of the same name by author Warren Zanes, will follow the rock icon during the making of his 1982 album. Nebraska.
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Bruce Springsteen.
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Nebraska marked Springsteen’s sixth studio album after breaking into the music industry in the 1970s. The musician self-recorded a 10-song album while he and the E Street Band made other music, including their well-known 1984 album. Born in the USA
“Nebraska expressed a restlessness that reflected the mood of the country, but was also symptomatic of a problem in the artist’s life, the beginnings of a mental breakdown that Springsteen would not speak openly about until decades after the album’s release,” reads the official description of Zanes’ book about the making of the album on the Penguin website Random House.
Both Springsteen and his manager John Landau are involved in the biopic, Deadline reported Tuesday. Springsteen, known as “The Boss,” won an Academy Award at the 66th Academy Awards in 1994 for writing and performing the song “Streets of Philadelphia” from the film Philadelphia.
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