'Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere' Press Conference

(L to R) Jeremy Strong, Jeremy Allen White, and Bruce Springsteen attend the UK Premiere of 20th Century Studios’ 'Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere' during the 69th BFI London Film Festival at Royal Festival Hall, London on October 15th, 2025. Photo by StillMoving.Net for The Walt Disney Company Limited.

'Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere' tells the story of famous musician Bruce Springsteen during the time in his life when he was writing the album Nebraska, and struggling to deal with trauma from his past.

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

"Everyone knows his music. But no one knows the moment everything changed."

PG-13Drama Music

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Release Date: Oct 24, 2025

Run Time: 2 hr

Starring: Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Paul Walter Hauser

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Moviefone attended an in-person press conference in support of the film, which featured stars Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Odessa Young, musician Bruce Springsteen, and writer/director Scott Cooper. The group shared behind-the-scenes details about the filming of the movie and why now is the right time to tell this story.

1) Bruce Springsteen Reveals Why Now Is The Right Time For 'Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere'

Bruce Springsteen attends the UK Premiere of 20th Century Studios’ 'Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere' during the 69th BFI London Film Festival at Royal Festival Hall, London on October 15th, 2025. Photo by StillMoving.Net for The Walt Disney Company Limited.

Bruce Springsteen is one of the most beloved and well known musicians in the entire world, so of course he has been approached many times by filmmakers who wish to create a biopic telling his life story. During the press conference, Bruce Spingsteen explains why now is the right time, and why this movie is the right one.

Bruce Springsteen: I like the idea that it really is not quite a music biopic. It's actually a character-driven drama with some music. So that appealed to me. And also, it's only a small slice of a period of time in my life when I was 31 and 32 and I was going through some first of some difficult times. And Scott [Cooper] came down and I met Scott along with Warren Zanes, who was the writer of the book, Deliver Me From Nowhere. And we just sat around and talked for an afternoon. I got a feeling from Scott that he knew exactly the kind of picture that he wanted to make. It was very in line with the type of record that Nebraska was. It was a picture that was going to feel, a studio picture that felt like an independent picture. I knew from Scott's films, which I'd seen, that he had a real talent for capturing blue-collar life, which I was, despite some of the success I'd had, I was still really living in New Jersey and in my community that I grew up in.

2) Jeremy Allen White & Jeremy Strong Were Thrilled To Get To Work With One Another

(L to R) Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen and Jeremy Strong as Jon Landau in 20th Century Studios' 'Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere'. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

Bruce Springsteen and Jon Landau have a very good friendship, and have for many years, that is built on trust and support. Jeremy Allen White, who plays Bruce Springsteen, and Jeremy Strong, who plays Jon Landau, were excited to get to work with one another in such close capacity for 'Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere'.

Jeremy Allen White: I have been an admirer of Jeremy's for a long time. I might have sent him a message through a mutual friend of ours at one point hoping we would do something together and then when I learned Jeremy was going to do this, I was very excited. But we hadn't spent time together before we got together to shoot one of the scenes, which was at the diner. Everything fell into place. I trusted Jeremy. I trusted that he had and understanding of the relationship and I trusted that his understanding would be similar to my own because of Scott's words and also because of the men we have been able to look to and because of the relationship that they have had for so long.

(L to R) Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong attend the UK Premiere of 20th Century Studios’ 'Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere' during the 69th BFI London Film Festival at Royal Festival Hall, London on October 15th, 2025. Photo by StillMoving.Net for The Walt Disney Company Limited.

Jeremy Strong: I agree. There as an ease to it. I've admired the hell out of Jeremy and I think he's a fearless actor. A bone marrow honest actor. There is a natural affinity between us. I had a sense that he might work in a similar way, approach it in a similar way. I knew he would be committed.

3) Bruce Springsteen Explains Odessa Young's Character & What She Means To Him

(L to R) Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen and Odessa Young as Faye in 20th Century Studios' Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere'. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

Odessa Young's character in the film, Faye, is not an actual person from Bruce Springsteen's life, but rather a combination of several people that impacted his life during this time.

Bruce Springsteen: I was a guy at the time who, I knew what I was doing for three hours every night. I didn't have a clue as to what I was doing the other 21. Odessa's Faye in the film, she symbolizes the potential and the possibilities of those other 21 hours that I was incapable of taking advantage of at the time. But she holds down a very, very important part of the film as she is the symbol of a real life and another life that was waiting for me out there that I wasn't able to find until much later in my life. And she did such a wonderful job of it. So I thank you.

4) Jeremy Allen White Had Bruce Springsteen Record Himself Reading Scenes From The Script To Help Him Craft The Character

(L to R) Jeremy Allen White and Bruce Springsteen attend the UK Premiere of 20th Century Studios’ 'Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere' during the 69th BFI London Film Festival at Royal Festival Hall, London on October 15th, 2025. Photo by StillMoving.Net for The Walt Disney Company Limited.

In order to help better understand Bruce Springsteen, and the mental state that he was in during this time in his life, Jeremy Allen White asked him to record himself reading a few different scenes from the script.

Jeremy Allen White: I'd been listening to his voice. There were a couple interviews from 1980 I had been listening to a lot and his voice is a little bit different. But I really wanted to hear his accent. So, Bruce recorded himself reading a couple of scenes from the movie. I would listen every morning to Bruce's reading from a couple of these different scenes. Each of the different characters was one with Adele Springsteen, [played by] Gaby Hoffman, and there was one with Jon. I wanted to hear if there was any change in voice with each of the different characters. That was so nice.

5) Jeremy Allen White Was Thankful Bruce Springsteen Was So Generous With His Time

Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in 20th Century Studios' 'Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere'. Photo by Macall Polay. © 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

Jeremy Allen White wanted to be able to do this difficult time in Bruce Springsteen's life justice, so he was thrilled to be able to work closely with him and have him available if he had questions.

Jeremy Allen White: We spent a little bit of time together prior to filming. But because we didn't know how much Bruce and Jon were going to be around prior to filming, that was the time we had. And then in that first week, I was really excited to have Bruce around, but also, of course, a little bit intimidated. I think what came with it was, I was very head down and I think fragile, trying to just do justice to the story and to Bruce. Bruce being there, for me, there was a lot of permission there. It felt good that he was there as a guide. The whole time I was making this movie, I was really pushing and searching. And it was so wonderful to have Bruce's support and voice behind me.

Bruce Springsteen: The truth is, Jeremy's been very modest about his preparation because he came in fully prepared, maybe asked me one or two questions. I had no idea what his preparation had been. He just, day one came, he went on the set and started his performance. And I just watched in amazement.

What is the plot of ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’?

Bruce Springsteen, a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past as he makes a raw, haunted acoustic album titled ‘Nebraska.’

Who is in the cast of ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’?

Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen
Jeremy Strong as Jon Landau
Paul Walter Hauser as Mike Batlan
Stephen Graham as Douglas Springsteen
Odessa Young as Faye Romano
Gaby Hoffmann as Adele Springsteen
Marc Maron as Chuck Plotkin
David Krumholtz as Al Teller
Johnny Cannizzaro as Steven Van Zandt
Matthew Pellicano Jr. as young Bruce Springsteen

(L to R) Scott Stuber, Scott Cooper, Odessa Young, Jeremy Allen White, Bruce Springsteen, Jeremy Strong, Stephen Graham, Jon Landau, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson attend the UK Premiere of 20th Century Studios’ 'Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere' during the 69th BFI London Film Festival at Royal Festival Hall, London on October 15th, 2025. Photo by StillMoving.Net for The Walt Disney Company Limited.