Jeremy Allen White Is 'Gonna Try' to Sing as Bruce Springsteen in Upcoming Biopic

Jeremy Allen White is hoping to do the Boss proud. 

Ahead of playing Bruce Springsteen in a biopic that will include musical performances, the 33-year-old Emmy winner teased to Variety that he might be doing his own singing in the film.

“We’re gonna try,” White said. “We’re gonna try our best.”

Deliver Me from Nowhere, directed by Scott Cooper (Antlers), will follow the New Jersey-born rock icon, 74, during the creation of his iconic 1982 album Nebraska. It's based on author Warren Zanes' 2023 non-fiction book of the same name.

White, who stars as chef Carmy Berzatto in the FX comedy The Bear (which premieres its third season on June 26) told Variety on the red carpet for the show’s season premiere that he hasn’t yet met Springsteen — and that’s on purpose. 

“We’ve communicated a little bit through some other people, but I hope this still all comes together,” the Iron Claw star said. “We’ve got some timing stuff to work out, and I’m trying to have a bit of my own process with it before meeting the man, too.” 

The actor added that he wants to “try to have an understanding” of Springsteen’s life and music, “so when I meet him, I’ll have a bit of confidence somewhere in me to stand there.”

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Nebraska was Springsteen's sixth studio album, which he released in 1982 on his own while he and the E Street Band were in the process of making other music, including 1984’s album Born in the U.S.A.

Per a description of Zanes’ book, "Nebraska expressed a turmoil that was reflective of the mood of the country, but it was also a symptom of trouble in the artist’s life, the beginnings of a mental breakdown that Springsteen would only talk about openly decades after the album’s release.”

Christopher Storer’s The Bear costars White’s fellow Emmy winners, Ayo Edebiri and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, as well as Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, Abby Elliott and Matty Matheson.