FILM · 2025 · USA
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
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- #001
Faye Romano, Springsteen's love interest in the film, is a composite of many romantic relationships Springsteen has had.
- #002
Jeremy Allen White plays harmonica and sings throughout the film.
- #003
Jeremy Allen White learned to play guitar for the film.
- #004
When Bruce Springsteen first saw the film, he was overcome with emotion, hugged director Scott Cooper and thanked him for being so honest.
- #005
Scott Cooper found making the film extraordinarily difficult while dealing with his father's death during production. Cooper's father died one day before shooting began. Later, near the end of filming, his house in the Palisades burned down.
- #006
Bruce Springsteen was already familiar with Scott Cooper's work when he gave him permission to make a film about a dark period of his life. His only warning was that Cooper should not soften his idiosyncrasies.
- #007
Jeremy Allen White wore brown contact lenses in the film. White's eyes are blue.
- #008
Scott Cooper refers to this film as an "anti-biopic."
- #009
Scott Cooper's father introduced him to the "Nebraska" album, which the film focuses on.
- #010
"Nebraska" is Bruce Springsteen's favorite among all his albums.
- #011
20th Century Studios bought the project during a heated bidding war with A24, which had initially been expected to take it during pre-production.
- #012
Jon Landau (played by Jeremy Strong) wears a T-shirt for the long-standing Harvard Square bar and restaurant Grendel's Den at around the 77th minute of the film. Landau is known to have first met Springsteen in 1974 after a show in Harvard Square.
- #013
Jeremy Allen White raised his boots slightly to change his walk.
- #014
Sony/Columbia released an expanded version of the "Nebraska" album on the day the film came out.
- #015
The "creepy" painting above the bed in the rented house is a (bad) copy of Thomas Gainsborough's (1794) "Sarah Goudin Barrett Moulton," commonly called "Pinkie," which belongs to the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. The posters not hanging in Jon Landau's office depict Marsden Hartley's (c.1914) "Painting, Number 5," which belongs to the Whitney Museum, and Vincent van Gogh's (1889) "Cypresses," held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- #016
The Springsteen family car (at least in the film) was a 1949 Ford Tudor (Ford's "play" on the "two door"). The car he buys in the film is a second-generation Chevrolet Camaro Z28, while the car he actually bought was a third-generation one.
- #017
This is the fifth collaboration between director Scott Cooper and cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi.
- #018
This was the first time Jeremy Strong, who has played many historical figures, portrayed someone still living.
- #019
Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers, an actor and singer who is also from New Jersey, expressed that he wanted to play Bruce Springsteen.
- #020
Jeremy Allen White and Stephen Graham play professional chefs working in high-stress restaurants. White stars in The Bear (2022), set in Chicago, and Graham stars in Boiling Point (2021), set in London.
- #021
Paul Schrader named Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere one of his favorite films of 2025.
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