Jeremy Allen White admits that it was tough playing Bruce Springsteen in the biopic “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.”
“It was a tremendous amount of pressure,” the actor exclusively told Page Six at the 2025 Gotham Awards in New York City Monday night.
Luckily, White had some help from the Boss himself.
“Bruce texted me almost every night,” White shared. “And he was on set very often.”
“The Bear” star, 34, jokingly added that without those supportive texts from Springsteen, 76, he would have been “crying a lot more” than he already did.
In the biographical musical drama film, White portrays the Jersey rocker just when he is about to hit global stardom — and struggling to reconcile the pressures of success with his hardscrabble past.
Scott Cooper, who wrote and directed the music biopic, told Page Six that making a movie about the “Born to Run” singer was a no-brainer because he is such a “cultural icon, which is rare” these days.
Cooper added that the current state of the world is “filled with noise and confusion and anger and hate,” so it felt like the right time to release a project like this.
“I personally think Bruce Springsteen represents the best of us,” he explained.
The “Crazy Heart” director described Springsteen as “morally sound” and “the best of who we are.”
During Monday’s event, the duo also accepted the Cultural Icon Tribute Award at the Gala.
“We’re very grateful that Bruce allowed us into [his] space. And to tell a story he had never told himself and never mythologized,” White said while accepting the award, while tripping over the word, “mythologized.”
“Sorry folks, I’m very tired,” he quipped, delighting the starry crowd, which included Rihanna, Hugh Jackman, Julia Roberts, Paul Rudd and Jacob Elordi.
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