Brooce! Inset: The Nebraska album.
EVEN MORE SO than cooking up 76 sandwiches in The Bear, Jeremy Allen White is about to face his tallest order: playing Bruce Springsteen. According to reports, he’s heading from The Beef to The Boss in Scott Cooper’s biopic-of-sorts Deliver Me From Nowhere, an appropriately atypical cinematic take on the New Jersey icon. Springsteen has long defied the traditional biopic, instead presenting filmic meditations on his own recent work in album tie-in flicks Western Stars and Bruce Springsteen’s Letter To You. So it’s in keeping that Cooper isn’t planning a soup-to-nuts career run-through.
Rather, his film will specifically zone in on the creation of 1982’s Nebraska — the quietest, rawest album Springsteen ever made.