Bruce Springsteen: “” Deliver me from Nowhere ‘is an anti-biopic”
Intervening a panel of the Telluride Film Festivalin which the film was previewed “Deliver me from Nowhere” (Here the first reviews on the movie), Bruce Springsteen He shed light on his decision to give the green light to the realization of the feature film despite concerning a difficult period of his life.
In the film he is the actor Jeremy Allen White To interpret the boss and tells the path of the New Jersey musician towards the recording of his sixth album of 1982, “Nebraska” (Read the review here). Jeremy Stronginterprets Jon Landaumanager and producer of Springsteen, while Stephen Grahamplays the father of the rocker, Douglas Springsteen.
During the panel Bruce Springsteen He explained why he agreed to proceed with the realization of the film on part of his life. “I think we had a very precise idea, Scott (Cooper, the screenwriter and director, editor’s note) had a very precise idea of what we would have tried to do. And, in the absence of a better term, he was an anti-biopic. It is not really a biopic. He takes only a couple of years of my life, when I was 31 and 32 years old, and considers them at a time when I made this record in particular, and in which I have crossed my moments life. and then I’m old and I don’t give a shit about what I do now. “
The director said that the approach of Jeremy Allen White To the role he played “an intensity of vulnerability and authenticity” that he had found throughout the work of Springsteen. “Jeremy has two things that, for me, really characterize Bruce Springsteen: one is humility. And the other is the swagger.” “Just in half,” Springsteen joked, among the laughter of the public present at the panel.
Bruce Springsteen He was enthusiastic about the project from the beginning, interviewed by the Variety Award Circuit Podcast, had spoken of how the project was born, calling it “an interesting concept, because it concerns only a couple of years of my life. The 81, 82, and focused on the creation of that disc in particular, while I was simultaneously recorded” Born in the USA “and I also faced some personal difficulties with which I have always convinced.
