The actor had to perform in front of the Boss himself. Jeremy Allen White admits it was 'daunting' playing Bruce Springsteen: 'The singing was a gamble'

The actor had to perform in front of the Boss himself.

Jeremy Allen White admits it was 'daunting' playing Bruce Springsteen: 'The singing was a gamble'

The actor had to perform in front of the Boss himself.

By Daysia Tolentino

August 31, 2025 9:00 a.m. ET

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Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in 'Deliver Me From Nowhere'; Bruce Springsteen at the 2024 Sea.Hear.Now Festival. Credit:

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Jeremy Allen White didn't have a lot of musical training ahead of his role in *Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere*.

White plays Bruce Springsteen in the upcoming biopic about the Boss, which comes out Oct. 24. He spoke to costar Marc Maron about embodying the artist on the *WTF *podcast.

The podcast host asked the *Shameless *actor what it was like to play Springsteen in front of the man himself.

"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," White said.

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Maron said that there were times where Springsteen "couldn't tell the difference" between his and *The Bear *star's vocals. White credited celebrity vocal coach Eric Vetro with helping him find his voice.

"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," White said.

Still, the *Iron Claw* actor said "the singing was a gamble." He said the phrasing on the central record of the film, 1982's *Nebraska,* was tough to nail.

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Jeremy Allen White in 'Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere'.

20th Century Studios

At times, White said he got too "worked up" about sounding like Springsteen that Vetro noticed he wasn't connecting to the music. Once he did that, the actor said it was a "breakthrough" in playing the role.

"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,'" White said. "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."

Listen to the full episode of *WTF *with Jeremy Allen White below.**

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