Jeremy Allen White has extra than simply Bruce Springsteen‘s blessing!
On Sunday, Sept. 15, The Bear star, 33, gave new particulars concerning the upcoming biopic based mostly on Springsteen’s life within the 2024 Emmys press room.
“I’m fairly excited to begin this factor,” White gushed following his big outstanding lead actor in a comedy series win for his function on FX’s The Bear. “We’re going to begin it fairly quickly. You understand, I don’t wish to discuss it an excessive amount of. It seems like mistaken earlier than type of getting there and beginning the factor.”
Although the actor stayed mum on any further data, he shared that he had a “actually lovely staff of individuals serving to me” along with Springsteen’s steering.
“Bruce has been actually beautiful and supportive and obtainable, which has made this complete course of I feel such an additional pleasure that we have now his assist and Jon Landau – his supervisor’s — assist, who has a big function within the movie, as properly,” he added. “So I really feel actually fortunate, and yeah, we’re getting there.”
In March, Selection confirmed that White was in talks to painting the rock legend in a biopic titled, Ship Me from Nowhere. The movie, based mostly on creator Warren Zanes’ 2023 non-fiction book of the same name, will observe the rock icon in the course of the creation of his 1982 album Nebraska.
Nebraska marked Springsteen’s sixth studio album after he broke out within the music business within the Nineteen Seventies. The musician famously recorded the 10-song album on his personal whereas he and the E Avenue Band had been within the course of of constructing different music, together with their well-known 1984 album Born in the usA.
“Nebraska expressed a turmoil that was reflective of the temper of the nation, however it was additionally a symptom of bother within the artist’s life, the beginnings of a psychological breakdown that Springsteen would solely discuss brazenly a long time after the album’s launch,” reads an official description of Zanes’ ebook concerning the album’s making on Penguin Random Home’s web site.
Each Springsteen and his supervisor John Landau are concerned within the in-the-works biopic, as Deadline reported Tuesday. Springsteen, identified by his nickname “The Boss,” gained an Academy Award on the 66th Oscars in 1994 for writing and performing the track “Streets of Philadelphia” from the movie Philadelphia.
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