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Bruce Springsteen reveals he would not visit the set of his biopic for THIS reason; calls Jeremy Allen White a 'tolerant actor'

Bruce Springsteen reveals he would not visit the set of his biopic for THIS reason; calls Jeremy Allen White a 'tolerant actor'

Time of India4 hours ago

Bruce Springsteen
, the legendary singer, revealed the behind-the-scenes of the shoot, where he avoided visiting the sets for his upcoming biopic 'Springsteen: Deliver Me From No' during the scenes that truly felt personal and emotional.
Jeremy Allen White
is a 'tolerant' actor...
In an interview with Rolling Stone, as quoted by Variety, the 75-year-old was asked about his feelings of seeing someone else play his younger version on the screen. 'I'm sure it's much worse for the actor than for me,' he gracefully said, before adding, 'Jeremy Allen White was very, very tolerant of me the days that I would appear on the set.'
The 'Born in the U.S.A' singer recalled that he asked 'The Bear' actor to give him the look, and he will be on his way home.
'The days that I got out there, he was wonderfully tolerant with me being there. And it was just fun. It was enjoyable,' he continued.
The most painful days...
Furthermore, the singer revealed that there was some 'unusualness' with the process as the biopic involves some of the most painful days of his life. There were some scenes in the film where Bruce decided to stay at his residence and not watch the shooting at all.
'If there was a scene coming up that was sometimes really deeply personal, I wanted the actors to feel completely free, and I didn't want to get in the way, and so I would just stay at home,' the 'Hungry Heart' singer stated.
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Moreover, Bruce claimed that whenever the director,
Scott Cooper
, wanted something or asked him to be on the sets, he would try to make it. However, the 75-year-old was touring in Canada for the first month of the filming, and he 'was out really out on the road quite a bit and working at that time.'
'Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere' is a biopic about Bruce Springsteen, played by Jeremy Allen White, that chronicles the 1982 hit album 'Nebraska.'

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