Jeremy Allen White Rocked CinemaCon Crowds With ‘Born to Run’ Performance in First Look at Springsteen Biopic
Written by djfrosty on April 4, 2025
The Bear star Jeremy Allen White had some pretty big shoes to fill when he signed on to star as Bruce Springsteen in the upcoming biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere. But according to The Hollywood Reporter, the Emmy-winning actor proved that he was more than up to the task this week when theater owners got their first look at the anticipated rock drama on Thursday (April 3) at the annual CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas.
Both White and Succession actor Jeremy Strong — who plays the Boss’ longtime manager/producer and consigliere Jon Landau — were on hand to debut the first trailer, with White telling the audience that the movie was “incredible, challenging, and a dream come true… I feel really lucky. We all had Bruce’s blessing on this film.”
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THR described the trailer as both “contemplative and rousing,” getting a big response from the audience, especially for White’s performance of the 1975 classic “Born to Run.” The movie chronicles the making of Springsteen’s beloved, bare bones 1982 album Nebraska and in the sneak peek White’s Bruce describes his goal for the sound of the album to “feel like I’m in the room by myself.”
According to Variety, the trailer cut exclusively for theater owners opens with Springsteen on a New Jersey car lot test driving a Chevy 305. “I know who you are,” the dealer tells the Boss, with White’s Springsteen smiling and responding, “That makes one of us.”
In voiceover, Strong’s Landau says, “When Bruce was little, he had a hole in the floor of his bedroom. A floor that’s supposed to be solid? He’s supposed to be able to stand on, Bruce didn’t have that,” in describing the stark album featuring a collection of hard-scrabble character studies. “Bruce is a repairman. What he’s doing with this album is, he’s repairing that hole in his floor. Repairing that thole in himself. Once he’s done that, he’s going to repair the entire world.”
Variety reported that the trailer ends with the “thrilling” live performance of “Born to Run” with White reportedly nailing the rocker’s “raspy croon, tossing his sweat-drenched hair on stage and ending in a split that brings his electric guitar down to the floor with him.”
Deliver Me From Nowhere is due out later this year.