Overview

• Following the Aug. 29 Telluride premiere, Springsteen said the film captures only a couple of years in his early thirties and described it as an anti-biopic.
• Director Scott Cooper said he built the story around specific moments from making Nebraska and a solitary confrontation with unresolved trauma and mental illness.
• Jeremy Allen White portrays Springsteen with Jeremy Strong as manager Jon Landau, alongside Stephen Graham, Paul Walter Hauser, Odessa Young, Gaby Hoffmann and Marc Maron.
• White prepared by learning the music and recording sessions, recalling Springsteen’s response after hearing a take: “You sound exactly like me.”
• The film screened at Telluride, is slated for the New York Film Festival on Sept. 28, and opens in theaters on Oct. 24.