(L to R) Jeremy Robust, Jeremy Allen White, and Bruce Springsteen attend the UK Premiere of twentieth Century Studios’ ‘Springsteen: Ship Me from Nowhere’ through the 69th BFI London Movie Pageant at Royal Pageant Corridor, London on October fifteenth, 2025. Photograph by StillMoving.Internet for The Walt Disney Firm Restricted.
‘Springsteen: Ship Me from Nowhere’ tells the story of well-known musician Bruce Springsteen through the time in his life when he was writing the album Nebraska, and struggling to take care of trauma from his previous.
“Everybody is aware of his music. However nobody is aware of the second every thing modified.”
Launch Date: Oct 24, 2025
Run Time: 2 hr
Moviefone attended an in-person press convention in assist of the movie, which featured stars Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Robust, Odessa Younger, musician Bruce Springsteen, and author/director Scott Cooper. The group shared behind-the-scenes particulars in regards to the filming of the film and why now’s the best time to inform this story.
Bruce Springsteen attends the UK Premiere of twentieth Century Studios’ ‘Springsteen: Ship Me from Nowhere’ through the 69th BFI London Movie Pageant at Royal Pageant Corridor, London on October fifteenth, 2025. Photograph by StillMoving.Internet for The Walt Disney Firm Restricted.
Bruce Springsteen is likely one of the most beloved and well-known musicians in the whole world, so after all he has been approached many instances by filmmakers who want to create a biopic telling his life story. Through the press convention, Bruce Spingsteen explains why now’s the best time, and why this film is the best one.
Bruce Springsteen: I like the concept it really isn’t fairly a music biopic. It is truly a character-driven drama with some music. In order that appealed to me. And in addition, it is solely a small slice of a time frame in my life once I was 31 and 32 and I used to be going by means of some first of some troublesome instances. And Scott [Cooper] got here down and I met Scott together with Warren Zanes, who was the author of the e-book, Ship Me From Nowhere. And we simply sat round and talked for a day. I acquired a sense from Scott that he knew precisely the sort of image that he wished to make. It was very in keeping with the kind of file that Nebraska was. It was an image that was going to really feel, a studio image that felt like an impartial image. I knew from Scott’s movies, which I might seen, that he had an actual expertise for capturing blue-collar life, which I used to be, regardless of a number of the success I might had, I used to be nonetheless actually dwelling in New Jersey and in my group that I grew up in.
(L to R) Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen and Jeremy Robust as Jon Landau in twentieth Century Studios’ ‘Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere’. Photograph courtesy of twentieth Century Studios. © 2025 twentieth Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Bruce Springsteen and Jon Landau have an excellent friendship, and have for a few years, that’s constructed on belief and assist. Jeremy Allen White, who performs Bruce Springsteen, and Jeremy Robust, who performs Jon Landau, had been excited to get to work with each other in such shut capability for ‘Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere’.
Jeremy Allen White: I’ve been an admirer of Jeremy’s for a very long time. I might need despatched him a message by means of a mutual buddy of ours at one level hoping we might do one thing collectively after which once I discovered Jeremy was going to do that, I used to be very excited. However we hadn’t hung out collectively earlier than we acquired collectively to shoot one of many scenes, which was on the diner. All the things fell into place. I trusted Jeremy. I trusted that he had and understanding of the connection and I trusted that his understanding can be much like my very own due to Scott’s phrases and likewise due to the boys now we have been in a position to look to and due to the connection that they’ve had for therefore lengthy.
(L to R) Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Robust attend the UK Premiere of twentieth Century Studios’ ‘Springsteen: Ship Me from Nowhere’ through the 69th BFI London Movie Pageant at Royal Pageant Corridor, London on October fifteenth, 2025. Photograph by StillMoving.Internet for The Walt Disney Firm Restricted.
Jeremy Robust: I agree. There as an ease to it. I’ve admired the hell out of Jeremy and I feel he is a fearless actor. A bone marrow sincere actor. There’s a pure affinity between us. I had a way that he would possibly work in the same means, strategy it in the same means. I knew he can be dedicated.
(L to R) Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen and Odessa Younger as Faye in twentieth Century Studios’ Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere’. Photograph courtesy of twentieth Century Studios. © 2025 twentieth Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Odessa Younger’s character within the movie, Faye, will not be an precise particular person from Bruce Springsteen’s life, however fairly a mix of a number of those that impacted his life throughout this time.
Bruce Springsteen: I used to be a man on the time who, I knew what I used to be doing for 3 hours each evening. I did not have a clue as to what I used to be doing the opposite 21. Odessa’s Faye within the movie, she symbolizes the potential and the chances of these different 21 hours that I used to be incapable of making the most of on the time. However she holds down a really, essential a part of the movie as she is the image of an actual life and one other life that was ready for me on the market that I wasn’t capable of finding till a lot later in my life. And she or he did such a beautiful job of it. So I thanks.
(L to R) Jeremy Allen White and Bruce Springsteen attend the UK Premiere of twentieth Century Studios’ ‘Springsteen: Ship Me from Nowhere’ through the 69th BFI London Movie Pageant at Royal Pageant Corridor, London on October fifteenth, 2025. Photograph by StillMoving.Internet for The Walt Disney Firm Restricted.
In an effort to assist higher perceive Bruce Springsteen, and the psychological state that he was in throughout this time in his life, Jeremy Allen White requested him to file himself studying a couple of completely different scenes from the script.
Jeremy Allen White: I might been listening to his voice. There have been a pair interviews from 1980 I had been listening to rather a lot and his voice is just a little bit completely different. However I actually wished to listen to his accent. So, Bruce recorded himself studying a few scenes from the film. I’d pay attention each morning to Bruce’s studying from a few these completely different scenes. Every of the completely different characters was one with Adele Springsteen, [played by] Gaby Hoffman, and there was one with Jon. I wished to listen to if there was any change in voice with every of the completely different characters. That was so good.
Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in twentieth Century Studios’ ‘Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere’. Photograph by Macall Polay. © 2025 twentieth Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Jeremy Allen White wished to have the ability to do that troublesome time in Bruce Springsteen’s life justice, so he was thrilled to have the ability to work carefully with him and have him accessible if he had questions.
Jeremy Allen White: We spent just a little little bit of time collectively previous to filming. However as a result of we did not know the way a lot Bruce and Jon had been going to be round previous to filming, that was the time we had. After which in that first week, I used to be actually excited to have Bruce round, but additionally, after all, just a little bit intimidated. I feel what got here with it was, I used to be very head down and I feel fragile, making an attempt to only do justice to the story and to Bruce. Bruce being there, for me, there was a whole lot of permission there. It felt good that he was there as a information. The entire time I used to be making this film, I used to be actually pushing and looking out. And it was so great to have Bruce’s assist and voice behind me.
Bruce Springsteen attends the UK Premiere of twentieth Century Studios’ ‘Springsteen: Ship Me from Nowhere’ through the 69th BFI London Movie Pageant at Royal Pageant Corridor, London on October fifteenth, 2025. Photograph by StillMoving.Internet for The Walt Disney Firm Restricted.
Bruce Springsteen: The reality is, Jeremy’s been very modest about his preparation as a result of he got here in absolutely ready, possibly requested me one or two questions. I had no concept what his preparation had been. He simply, day one got here, he went on the set and began his efficiency. And I simply watched in amazement.
Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in twentieth Century Studios’ ‘Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere’. Photograph by Macall Polay. © 2025 twentieth Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Bruce Springsteen, a younger musician on the cusp of worldwide superstardom, struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his previous as he makes a uncooked, haunted acoustic album titled ‘Nebraska.’
(L to R) Scott Stuber, Scott Cooper, Odessa Younger, Jeremy Allen White, Bruce Springsteen, Jeremy Robust, Stephen Graham, Jon Landau, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson attend the UK Premiere of twentieth Century Studios’ ‘Springsteen: Ship Me from Nowhere’ through the 69th BFI London Movie Pageant at Royal Pageant Corridor, London on October fifteenth, 2025. Photograph by StillMoving.Internet for The Walt Disney Firm Restricted.
