Jeremy Allen White is opening up about being nervous to play Bruce Springsteen on the big screen.
The 34-year-old actor was a guest on Marc Maron‘s podcast recently and spoke about his experience in the movie.
According to Jeremy, singing in Deliver Me From Nowhere was “a gamble” for him. Jeremy said that the 75-year-old music icon gave him a piece of advice that helped calm his nerves.
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“I had not had a lot of experience, or any experience, singing or playing guitar, so that was daunting to say the least in the beginning,” Jeremy admitted on the podcast.
Jeremy said that he had a vocal coach to help with fine tuning his voice to match the real-life inspiration for the movie, which helped.
On the vocal coach he used on set, Jeremy said, “He helped Austin [Butler] with the Elvis movie, he helped Timothée Chalamet with the [Bob] Dylan movie, he’s kind of the go-to, and he works with a lot of vocalists and real singers and performers.”
Despite having experienced help, Jeremy had to admit that singing in the movie was something he was anxious about. He went on to tell his co-star and podcast host Marc that he had a moment on-set with Bruce that helped him break through that anxiety.
“I remember Bruce was great the first time he heard one of my pre-records ’cause he was like, ‘You sound like me, but you’re singing the song, you’re making the song your own. You’ve got your connection to the song,” Jeremy recalled. “And I think once he gave me that permission, not just with the music, but in a sense the entirety of the film, I feel like that released me a little bit from the anxiety.”
Bruce recently shared what he thought about Jeremy‘s performance!
