Bruce Springsteen was recently a guest of Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast and talked about his involvement with his biopic ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’, saying that visiting the sets brought him back in time and said that the movie looks “fantastic”.
Directed by Scott Cooper, the movie stars Jeremy Allen White as Springsteen during the early 80s, and Bruce’s personal and professional circumstances at the time that led him to creating 1982’s ‘Nebraska’. They haven’t announce a release date but it should be out this year.
Springsteen talked about how the biopic came together, “They pitched the idea, and I said, ‘It sounds like fun,’” Springsteen he recalled. “It’s an interesting concept, because it’s only a couple of years out of my life”.
He added, “It’s ’81, ’82, and centred around the creation of that particular record while I was simultaneously recording ‘Born in the USA’ and also going through some personal difficulties that I’ve been living with my whole life. But it’s fantastic”.
You shouldn’t be surprised to read that Bruce wasn’t present at most of the filming – you know, he IS the Boss. But he did swing by the set from time to time. “I was on tour during a lot of it, so they filmed a good amount of it without me there. But I was on set sometimes”.
He continued, “It was interesting to see it played out, to see your grandmother’s house again, and to go inside and get a general feeling of what it was like when you were very young. So I enjoyed all those parts of it”.
In other Springsteen news, Bruce is putting out seven never-heard-before full albums on ‘Tracks II: The Lost Albums’. It’s out June 27, has 83 songs and is set to “fill in rich chapters of Springsteen’s expansive career timeline — while offering invaluable insight into his life and work as an artist.”
Which other bands/artists would you like to see release a biopic?
